Hope We Can Believe In

I am already on the Obama bandwagon, but I had hoped in his acceptance speech he would give those not so familiar with his ideas and life story a chance to understand why America needs him to be the next president. He did that in spades - really making his case for himself and the Democratic Party. At this point in history we are at a crossroads. Our country needs to change direction and regain it's moral authority as a leader. Senator Obama laid out his case that he is the person to do that. His speech was full of hope, but also details of how we can make changes to our American policy. He reminded us, America, and the Republicans that this election is too important for lies and smears, but instead the debate should be about policy and how the candidates would run the country. I was also glad to see Senator Obama attack conservatism. In the last 8 years the conservative policies that the Republican party have been pushing for so many years were given free rein. It has been a disaster. Unfortunately Senator McCain doesn't see the hardship that most American families are facing and is offering more of the same policies. I hope that Americans vote in their own best interest this year. If that happens, Senator Obama will win big.

As I am not a wordsmith, I would like to share a quote from Andrew Sullivan in his post "The Hope We Confess". He writes so eloquently about how I felt about last night's acceptance speech. I hope you will take the time to read the entire post.

It was a deeply substantive speech, full of policy detail, full of people other than the candidate, centered overwhelmingly on domestic economic anxiety. It was a liberal speech, more unabashedly, unashamedly liberal than any Democratic acceptance speech since the great era of American liberalism. But it made the case for that liberalism - in the context of the decline of the American dream, and the rise of cynicism and the collapse of cultural unity. His ability to portray that liberalism as a patriotic, unifying, ennobling tradition makes him the most lethal and remarkable Democratic figure since John F Kennedy.