Obama Rising

The last night of the Democratic Presidential Convention belonged solely to Barack Obama.
The clear-eyed candidate strolled out confidently before a thunderous crowd of supporters (75-thousand people) and stepped into history as he uttered the words "I accept the nomination." The Democratic Presidential Nominee set a new standard in discourse as he challenged his opponent step up to the plate in serious, not sullen, debate on the tenets of leadership. The nation's stock and the world's stock in "change" rose on Mr. Obama's every word. This unlikely foot-soldier demonstrated with impeccable precision, poignant tact, healthy humility and deft definition wisdom, which has been long absent and at great cost in the body politic.

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A Big Step in an Improbable Journey

At 4:49 pm Mountain and 6:49pm Eastern Barack Obama became the Presidential Nominee of the Democratic Party. A big step for the party of Jefferson and the candidate from the state of Lincoln. This mountain top experience could only have happen in the mile high city, Denver, Colorado nestled along the majestic Rockies.
Well done.
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Impervious to Challenge in the Wake of Defeat

Senator Hillary Clinton impervious to challenge in her own right made it abundantly clear during the Democratic Convention that there was no good argument not to elect, in her words, "my candidate" Senator Barack Obama the next President of the United States. Indeed she has infused a new respect for the democratic process in America, as the primary season was truly brutal. But, with grace, humility and respect, she reached beyond self and paved the way for Senator Obama to indeed become President.
That's a class act that students of politics the world over should take note.
Simply well done!
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Call Me Crazy

Call me crazy, but I think Reagan Democrats will sit out the 2008 Presidential elections.
Here's why.
Their guy, or anyone who looks like him or her, is not in the race.
This group was repeatedly chided by Republican and Democratic pundits during the presidential primaries as the people that have consistently voted against their own economic interests.
To be clear, they along with just about everyone else, except oil fat cats, have seen their purse strings grow tight, and some have been robbed blind of their jobs. Those jobs were hijacked in the name of big corporate interests and taken to foreign lands, not yesterday, but over the last 45 years.
Is this an overstatement about one group being hood winked, of course, especially when you consider they and a number of other citizens cast their votes not once but twice for the current administration, on whose watch the economy tanked.
How does that saying go..."fool me three times...?"
And if, you are to believe the interviews some Reagan Democrats or Reagan Republicans gave during the democratic primaries about having trouble with diversity as representative of the group, then it is obvious they truly don't have an elephant or donkey in this race for the Oval office.
Call me crazy, but Reagan Democrats will save on gas and not venture out to the polls in droves this election season, and that is more than a shame; it should be viewed as a genuine concern for the democratic process on a number of fronts.
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