Lost amid the talk of Barack Obama's historic run is all memory of America's first black president, a man who could have taken a comet day after Wolf-Biederman flattened the Eastern Seaboard, but went to work anyway. Term highlights: Froze wages, fixed prices, declared martial law, and authorized a lottery to determine which 800,000 Americans would constitute the future of civilization. Sounds more like Clinton policy than Obama, but whatever.
