"If you do what you've always done, you'll get what you've always gotten." That was what one of the speakers at the Democratic National Convention this week said regarding the nomination of Barack Obama and the upcoming presidential election, and it was the one quote from the event that really stuck with me and hit home. "If you do what you've always done, you'll get what you've always gotten." America needs to do something that it hasn't done before.
Barack Obama's acceptance speech itself was riveting, and he brought his "A" game last night. Before it began, I was contacting friends telling them that they were going to want to see this: the formal acceptance of a major party's presidential nomination by an African-American. A history-changing event. And the visual was amazing -- 80,000 people crammed into a standium to see the occassion, screaming, cameras flashing. It was like nothing that this country has ever seen.
And I have to take issue with one of the talking points of the Republicans over the past week. One of the major criticisms that they had was the grand spectacle of the final night at Invesco Field (I heard a Fox News reporter today refer to it as a "circus") -- specifically, they were trying to spin 80,000 voters coming out as a bad thing. It's a bad thing? God forbid the American people actually want to get involved with and listen to a politician. What a liability. Let's open up the Metrodome in Minnesota for John McCain's acceptance speech on Thursday and see how many people show up.
And this brings me to a larger point that I seem to me noticing lately about a lot of Republicans: One of the reasons that I like Barack Obama is because he wants everyone to get involved, participate, and do their part, and he inspires me to do so. The Republicans, on the other hand, seem to me to have an attitude of "don't get too excited or involved -- just elect us and let the professionals do their jobs."
"...of the people, by the people, for the people..."
-Abraham Lincoln
My reaction to the awful John McCain choice of Gov. Sarah Palin for Vice-President in the days to come.
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please allow me to compliment you for your brilliantly phrased response to rich cahill, the superinflated egomaniac also on kingston public abscess/access tv who claims his show is #1--i said it was #2 then concurred that it was #1 & #2 because his prissy attitude on the show disallows freedom of speech forbidding callers from using any form of "vulgarity"--his targets need only be dems and he will attack like a pitbull wearing lipstick smeared from michael vick's blood. he attacks hinchey calling him comrade for talking about nationalizing gas refineries but mr. cahillbilly lets the housing mortgage takeover thing slide. the reagan rapture resurrection renaissance references to palin are creepy and if old gray ken and senior barbie become the new first couple because sarah scores a hat trick for the gop may she ride the great big hockey stick to some maverick tricky dick place in the cockpit of air force one with mccain at the controls going for #6
on the tally sheet of u.s. scrap heap airplanes courtesy of and thanks to john mccainus. call me pao yee
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