Commentary: We are in a battle for our nation’s soul

When in 2008 Barack Obama was elected the nation’s 44th president, American voters (some 69 million) fulfilled Rev. Martin Luther King Jr’s civil-rights-era dream:“I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.”And despite pundits’ warnings against reading too much into this victory, many of us were thrilled by the sight of the nation’s f