You have to take your hat off to Obama
Love him or loathe him – this really was quite a spectacle.
“For eighteen long months, you have stood up, one by one, and said enough to the politics of the past. You understand that in this election, the greatest risk we can take is to try the same old politics with the same old players and expect a different result. You have shown what history teaches us – that at defining moments like this one, the change we need doesn’t come from Washington. Change comes to Washington. Change happens because the American people demand it – because they rise up and insist on new ideas and new leadership, a new politics for a new time. America, this is one of those moments.”
“…the greatest risk we can take is to try the same old politics with the same old players… “
That’s very true. However, Obama is one of the ’same old players’, who has got where he is by virtue of the ’same old politics’.
The only difference is his skin colour. And didn’t someone long ago have a dream that people would be judged on more than that…?
Ooooh, vicious! Then again, if Hillary was the Democrat’s candidate then she would probably be judged on her gender as much as Obama is on his skin colour.
Indeed, and that’s just as poor a reason for voting for anyone.
Frankly, I don’t care if the politician I vote for is black, white, yellow, male, female or indeterminate.
I care about what they claim to do, not what they are.
I’d worry if they were yellow and indeterminate
Like I said, it was amazing to watch Obama give his speech in that arena. I have never seen anything like it before in politics.
Keen to promote the New Kennedy image.
Kennedy was divisive in the USA. Obama will be too.
But for the world, he has to be the better option.
Blair made people feel there was going to be a better way. Now he’s tarnished its easy to forget exactly how popular he was. How good at making the word Change sound like it meant something.
Maybe Obama really can make some changes. At least he can learn from the mistakes of Blair and Bush if he gets in.
10:20, 10:39,
That’s why I liked Edwards over Obama & Clinton…
I’ll see myself out.
Laters, Asquith – go and stand in the corner of the room.
I think BQ might be onto something. As a Conservative I’m very concerned about Obama’s protectionist attitude to the US economy, but his attitude towards international diplomacy is much more appealing than McCain’s gung-ho approach. Obama will have been watching and learning as Blair and Bush destroyed the reputation of the US and UK around the world and I have a sneaking suspicion that he might be rather good at rebuilding it.
I thought it was awful, mainly because I watched the reaction on the gushing BBC.
yeesh.
Do Americans really love smaltz or hate it really?
My hunch is they have a thing for the underdog like we do and this could be a sheffield moment.
and it is boring too, the election is not for ages and I am bored already…neither candidate is going to save the debt trainwreck of the US economy.
Taking my hat off for him, and voting for fiscal conservatism, i.e.; NOT Obama.
Enjoy Scotland!