CNN has got a video up now, funny and deeply touching at the same time, of Obama receiving a long maple walking stick from a 95-year-old African-American man at today's town hall meeting in Virginia.
Funny? Hell, yeah, just watch our next President take the gift and riff on it:
Touching? Oh, yeah; watching Charles Edwards make his halting way up to the podium, watching the grace and delight with which Obama spoke with him; feeling the joy suffusing the crowd at this realization of an impossible dream, well, I felt the tears well up. Tears that will be welling up again and again as this campaign unfolds.