I don’t know how many of you caught last night’s speeches at the Democratic National Convention, but next to Montana Governor Schweitzer’s crowd-pleasing, let’s-get-ready-to-rumble u-rah-rah talk, Hillary Clinton’s speech was the highlight of the evening.
For a great perspective on the talk, check out this post from politico. com. I particularly appreciated his sentiment that all this talk of Hillary supporters giving their vote to McCain is simply “hooey.” I agree. Besides, if Hillary supporters are that fickle and care nothing about the issues, I feel there are more important things to focus on – namely, education. Have we educated our country to weigh the issues before them or have we educated our country only to act like children when they don’t get their way?
It frustrates me – first of all, there are very few significant issues on which the Democrats and the Republicans greatly differ (oh, how I long for a third party!!). Second of all, since when are we putting all of our hope in government? For crying out loud, haven’t we learned anything from the last two elections? What a message it would have sent had democrats really rallied together after the ‘00 and ‘04 elections to fight for the kind of future they had hoped the president would have moved towards. I feel like our country often acts hopeless after “their candidate” loses the presidency. Hooey. DO something.
I hope the same for this presidency. I hope Obama wins, but if he doesn’t, I think his experience and his vision are what we desperately need to encourage one another to stay in the game, to fight for we believe in, to commit ourselves to the future.
I hope this race becomes less about Obama’s race and McCain’s age and more about who best represents the dreams of and the commitment to the people of this country.
