Mass Appeal

This is a crowd.  75,000 people assembled to hear one man speak - not to see a rock star play guitar, not for a trippy psychodelic sixties drug fest, but one man speak honestly about that which will make this country better, that which can return this country to greatness.  He speaks honestly about the work and gives reasonable time frames.  He doesn't say that he'll accomplish his objectives on day one or by day one hundred.  He says what he'll propose and then what it will take to get it through Congress and what compromises that might entail.  He's a realist and a dreamer both.  He does embody hope because he's an optimist.

People stood in line and went through checkpoints and waited over an hour.  Old and young people both.  Rich and poor people.  Working class, middle class, lower class and upper.  He brings an energy to the campaign that is unmatched in my lifetime.  He's as good an orator as Ronald Reagan or John F. Kennedy, but neither of them moved out from the establishment enough to generate this kind of personal appeal - appeal that draws people from their homes and offices and assembles them to hear a speech. 

He's as inspirational as Martin Luther King, and as temperate.  He paints a picture of the America in which I want to live where there aren't two teams and two sides but instead one people with some disagreements but whose agreements are larger and more profound than the disagreements. 

Today he's going to win Oregon and lose Kentucky and I wonder why people in Kentucky can't see what I see in Barack Obama.  I wonder what it's going to take for one man to personally touch three hundred million people. 

Good luck, Senator Obama.  I hope to call you president soon.

- rick, inspired.

Comments

[a rose is a rose]

we WILL call him president and not soon enough for me.

[The Angry Young Man]

Dude, there's something ironic about the fact that basically Puerto Rico - a colony where people don't even have the right to vote in the general election - will decide this race once and for all. He only needs something like 55% of the vote there to nail the nomination. I have no doubts that PR will go for Obama. He will win the nomination and then he'll nail the White House. It's meat and potatoes time in American politics and we're about to kick the fundie cabal straight to the curb! Go Barry!