obama's speech was great. no big surprise, obviously. but still. i can't get over, even 18 months later, how wonderful it is to hear him speak. to hear him speak, frustration evident in his voice, of "washington" and "politics" and "congress" and to see people listen. to see people want him to be their president.
there truly is a different air surrounding the proceedings of the democratic nomination this year; at least different than anything i can remember in my (admittedly short) life. while objective reflection on obama's speech makes me still wonder if we can truly do the things he's said that we can (as a government, country, people, whatever), i think that in our current state, hope is just as worthwhile a national resource as anything else, and i also think that if we can do 25 percent of what he's proposing in the next 10 years that this country will still be orders of magnitude better off than it's been during any and all of my adult life.
something i've noticed during most of obama's televised speeches is that you fairly often see audience members in tears. i have to admit that i've occasionally gotten a bit choked up listening to him speak. and sure, you'd probably see tears on the faces of dedicated servants of well-spoken, hypnotic zealots (which some people seem to characterize obama as), but you'd also see the same tears in the eyes of people who are living out of debt, who can't afford to have children because they know they probably won't be able to feed them, who really just want to have a decent shot to make an honest living or to make a new start and have suddenly been offered it. i think that's what we're getting. i hope we don't fuck it up.
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