I have been tuning in to the Democratic National Convention the last few nights. I didn’t blog about it because nothing really caught my interest until tonight. John Kerry and Bill Clinton both gave speeches, but they weren’t just speeches, they summed up eight years under Bush. Clinton said that we went from record surpluses to an exploding national debt, while Kerry gave a speech that if he had given four years ago, we might not be voting for Obama at all, we might be voting Kerry for a second term.
I have never shied away from the fact that I believe Barrack Obama is the best man for the job. Even when people tell me he is inexperienced, if we look at the experience then George Bush should have made a better president than Bill Clinton. The fact is that he doesn’t, and it isn’t just based on experience that we should look for, it is who the person chooses to have around him and take advice from should be what we take into consideration. Obama knew he was down on foreign policy, so he picked a Vice Presidential Candidate that could help him out with that, Joe Biden. He has said numerous times that while he may not have Hillary Clinton as the Vice President, he would ask Bill Clinton in a heartbeat if he could, to be his VP.
Now I realize that some may ask, if it is who you surround yourself with then doesn’t that mean Obama is a racist since his pastor was from and Obama attended a black seperatist church? My thoughts on this are simple. How can you be racist against a race that your mother and your uncle are a part of? When half of you is part of this race? I realize that it doesn’t excuse him from going to a black separatist church and following Reverend Wright’s teachings, but if you are half black and half white then wouldn’t you feel mixed up in a world where things seem to be just black and white and you don’t fit in anywhere? If we hold this church against him, then we need to hold it against Oprah Winfrey too, who went to the same church for a time.
Obama has a good start, with the Clinton’s fully behind him and Biden by his side, maybe he will play the Clinton card more than Gore did in 2000 so that we can finally gain control of the country again. I am going to close this entry with a quote from John Kerry tonight. Again I say that four years ago had he made such a powerful speech maybe he would be up for reelection, but the sad fact is that we lost then and if we loose again I am leaving this country because there would be no hope for it.
“Years ago when we protested a war, people would weigh in against us saying, “My country, right or wrong.†Our answer? Absolutely, my country, right or wrong. When right, keep it right. When wrong, make it right. Sometimes loving your country demands you must tell the truth to power.”
dude – i so agree. i have been on the fence for awhile now because i had been told some things about Obama that now do not seem true.
For instance, he is muslim, so he does not worship God. Well, tonight, i heard him say, “God Bless You, and God Bless the united States of America.”
Also, i had been told that if he gets into office that he will be sure that our guns are taken way. Well, again tonight, he was telling us all that he thought we could protect our 2nd Amendment Rights while keeping the AK-47’s out of the hands of terrorists. This is very important to me because i have owned a gun since i was a very young girl. I love to hunt and i believe in protecting what is mine.
When Clinton was in office, was the very first time that I truly paid total attention as to what was going on in Washington. I thought that he did a marvelous job as President and was impressed with the fact that our country’s deficit wss in the black for the first time in my life!
I got excited about Obama’s plans for renewable fuels, wind, solar, and nuclear power, and so much more.
I now have renewed excitement that McCain just hasn’t given me. I guess all hinges upon the GOP Convention next week!