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Sen. Barack Obama's nomination acceptance speech was vastly more than that. And it was vastly more than a list of political promises. It was a solemn promise to America that this election is not about him, it is about us. It is about whether we choose the change we all know is desperately needed or, we respond to the fears his opponents will attempt to instill in us, to not take a chance on change. It was brilliant, truthful, and hit to the core of what this election is truly about.
The speech was also brilliant on the tactical front. It was armored against the potential retorts of the McCain campaign regarding patriotism, judgment, and being connected to the average American. At the same time that Obama defended McCain's patriotism and care about America, he slammed McCain for being out of touch, and dependent upon the old politics of divisiveness and derision as the means to personal victory in a contest that was always supposed to be about the American people and this nation's future, not the candidate's personal aspirations.
And if he lives up to his declaration that he is fully prepared to debate McCain on judgment, policy, and vision for America's future, the debates will pose the greatest of challenges for Sen. John McCain. If this speech was the foundation for Obama's debate material, Sen. McCain should be a lot more nervous tonight than he was last night, and has his homework cut our for him.
Obama's speech got into nuts and bolts issues and policy direction. It remains absent of dollar amounts, and demonstrations of how balancing the budget can be accomplished, but, Obama was specific about where he would go for additional revenues and sounded Reaganesque when he alluded to poring over the budget line by line to rid our failed bureaucracy of the waste and abuse of tax dollars that have been the hallmark of the last 7.5 years and Congress' long before that.
He called for tax breaks for small businesses that create and keep jobs here in America, and reasserted a promise to cut taxes for 95% of working Americans. He offered many more specifics than ever before. And it was a brilliant move on his part to not give too many details away, keeping them in reserve for the debates with Sen. McCain.
In all, it sounded like Barack Obama is finally ready to take on any Republican the GOP wants to put before him, and win. He has a message, a vision, and the policy directions that will resonate with the majority of Americans capable and willing to compare these between the two candidates. And he has the contributions from Americans to spread his message from corner to corner of the United States and its territories.
He has adopted the best of Republican principles and married them to the best of Democratic principles. Fiscal responsibility, personal responsibility and dignity of work, have been married to principles of compassion, tolerance, a helping hand, and acceptance. And unity even amidst diversity ties these together as he laid forth a platform of issues and policies that will appeal, and ring true for, moderates in the Democratic, Republican, and Independent ranks of voting citizens. It is a foundation for a new coalition in American politics, and it arrives just in time in the candidacy of Barack Obama.
I chose to support Obama many, many moons ago as the best of the candidates capable of winning. However, I continued to have healthy skepticism and doubts whether he would, or could, be the candidate to deliver the turning point which America so desperately needs to take. I am convinced by this speech tonight, that my choice to support Barack Obama back then was the right one, and now Obama has provided me with much of the evidence to defend that choice.
He will not be a perfect leader or president, no president ever has been. But, I am now convinced he is the leader, for this time that America needs, to make the changes that are long over due and deteriorating my daughter's future in this country.
OldGuard said at :
12:03 AM, 08 29 2008 | Permalink
And you call yourself an Independent? I can't believe your article anymore than I can believe Obama. Indie my foot. This article is a blatant Democratic tax and spend supporter article, and nothing more.
OldGuard | August 29, 2008 12:03 AM
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12:31 AM, 08 29 2008 | Permalink
OldGuard, I will let my previous article on Robert Menendez contradict your perceptions.
An Independent is free to choose amongst all parties and candidates the ones they feel best reflect their concerns and interests. Thus, an Independent voter can vote for a Republican without being a Republican, a Democrat without pulling the Democratic Party lever for all elected positions, and of course for, Independent and Third Party candidates, as well.
I hope this refresher course in what Independent means, helps you out.
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d.a.n said at :
2:50 PM, 08 30 2008 | Permalink
That's right. Being independent doesn't mean never voting for a main-party candidate.
Voters should always vote for the best candidate possible.
However, far too many voters think they should pull the party-lever.
There are no real incumbents for the presidential race.
And the candidates (in my opinion) aren't that great.
But, whoever the next president becomes, the voters shouldn't forget about Congress.
When the candidates in any election are all equally bad, it is best to vote out the incumbent, rather then blindly pull the party-lever.
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The governement is too irresponsible and unaccountable.
That is the voters' fault, since it is the majority of voters that repeatedly reward bad politicians with 85%-to-90% re-election rates, despite dismal 9% approval ratings for do-nothing Congress, and multiple polls showing that voters think the nation is head in the wrong direction.
40%-to-50% of voters don't vote at all.
90% of elections are won by the candidate that spends the most money (usually the incumbents, with many unfair advantages).
Too many voters blindly pull the party lever, despite dismal approval ratings for Congress.
Too many voters refuse to admit that they are the problem.
It's always someone else's fault.
Too many voters choose to wallow in the petty, circular, divisive, distracting partisan warfare, and too many politicians love to fuel it.
Too many voters refuse to see that their blind loyalties to THE PARTY are misplaced.
Too many voters refuse to see that they are being manipulated and controlled.
Too many irresponsible voters is why government is corrupt, irresponsible, unaccountable, and FOR-SALE.
What do voters expect, when the voters repeatedly reward bad politicians with perpetual re-election?
This gives rise to the term: sheeple
Like this animal, it seems incredulous and confused.
It reminds me of far too many voters, who blindly pull the party-lever, repeatedly, election after election, and then wonder what the hell happened!
Yet the animal in the video keeps doing the same thing, expecting a different result.
What is often said to be the definition of doing the same thing over and over, and expecting a different result?
But, perhaps enough voters will be less apathetic, complacent, and blindly partisan when enough of the voters are deep in debt , jobless , homeless , and hungry ?
At any rate, the voters have the government that the voters elect, and re-elect , and r-elect , and r-elect , and r-elect , . . . , at least, until that becomes too painful.
d.a.n | August 30, 2008 2:50 PM
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sophia said at :
10:13 AM, 09 02 2008 | Permalink
Anybody who hasn’t seen the documentary ANYTOWN, USA by Kristian Fraga should check it out! It’s an entertaining story about a small town election with great colorful characters that we would all be entertained by in our hometown. This year especially, when so much is changing and so much is on the line in our elections, its enlightening and fun to see what happens in the microcosm of a local mayoral race (which just so happens to be a perfect mirror of our current national political scene). This film brings the election home and shows that humorous–yet heartfelt–politics are right outside our very doors…in Anytown. Definitely a gem amongst the political documentaries I’ve seen. http://www.amazon.com/Anytown-USA-Film-Movement/dp/B000FJYNM2/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=dvd&qid=1219861287&sr=8-2
sophia | September 2, 2008 10:13 AM
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