For me, America's finest moment was watching the first Black American president being sworn in to office.

We are too young of a Country to reflect on which moment really defines us. America has grown so fast in the last 100 years that we are experiencing those growing pains. I think the “moment” that will define us is what we as a Country decides to do next.

When your house is on fire, and your family is inside, you don't run down the street to help the neighbors with their issues.

We have growing generational poverty. High School drop out rates that in some cities has hit 70%. Half of our workforce is irrelevant in the new world economy.

There is only one option for what this moment has to become. If we are to survive as a nation it has to be the moment when we commit to breaking up ghettos and ending generational poverty. The moment when we commit to an educational system, with requisite parental responsibilities, sufficient for rebuilding a nation of intellectual leaders.

If that is not what this moment becomes, the moment where America takes a good, hard look in the mirror and whips itself into shape, in short order we will become an impoverished, ignorant, bankrupt, failed nation. We're far down that road already.

19th Amendment - Women's Right to Vote

Sixty-sixth Congress of the United States of America; At the First Session,
Begun and held at the City of Washington on Monday, the nineteenth day of May, one thousand nine hundred and nineteen.

JOINT RESOLUTION

Proposing an amendment to the Constitution extending the right of suffrage to women.

Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled (two-thirds of each House concurring therein), That the following article is proposed as an amendment to the Constitution, which shall be valid to all intents and purposes as part of the Constitution when ratified by the legislature of three-fourths of the several States.

"ARTICLE ————.

"The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex.

Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation."

I hope Hilary means it is time to pull back the Empire and re-evaluate our role in world politics. ie. Afghanistan, Iraq, Iran

The ideals of the USA as embodied in the constitution and the bill of rights; although often not fulfilled as Patricia above stated.

There are as many American "moments" as there are American stories/people/cultures/experiences. Mainly we forget about the incredible yet difficult history that we have created over the course of America's 400 years. Maybe we all should read Howard Zinn's _A People's History of the United States_ to remember that.

Unfortunately, it seems like being an American is "do as I say, not as I do".

The Supreme Court's decision to permit unlimited political spending by corporations in political races will be remembered as the turning point in American history.

From that point on, the political well has been permanently poisoned. Today we have a 24/7 so called news networks promoting one party's programs over the other.

They've convinced enough of us that the president is a Muslim, Socialist, Nazi, Communist, elite, intellectual who was born in Kenya.

At a point in our history that demands political compromise, one party has refused to work with the current administration.

After eight years when the other party, not only worked with the Republican administration, but advocated for two wars, financial deregulation and tax cuts which have brought us to the economic precipice, no one is willing to work with the opposition.

Where do we go from here?

Without a doubt, forcing Richard Nixon to leave office. The ability to fire a chief executive who violates the Constitution, and to do so peacefully, is the biggest political achievement possible for any country, given the long world history of dictatorial rulers.