Our Next President

We watched this speech last night, and we were practically standing up, clapping along with everyone in the stadium. (Which, by the way was packed to capacity with people who were, in some cases, moved to tears by the amazing speech.) When I think of Barack standing "toe to toe" accross from McCain, I am thrilled at the thought of how much better Barack will look! He is amazing. I feel sick at the thought of McCain and his patronizing "My Friends...I was a POW" (PUKE, retch) talks. As Maureen Dowd said recently: "It’s hard to believe that John McCain is now in danger of exceeding his credit limit on the equivalent of an American Express black card. His campaign is cheapening his greatest strength - and making a mockery of his already dubious claim that he’s reticent to talk about his P.O.W. experience - by flashing the P.O.W. card to rebut any criticism, no matter how unrelated. The captivity is already amply displayed in posters and TV advertisements."

For example (from his recent appearance on LENO):

LENO: “For a million dollars, how many houses do you have?”

SEN. McCAIN: “Could I just mention to you, Jay, that, at a moment of seriousness. I spent five-and-a-half years in a prison cell,” McCain said. “I didn’t have a house. I didn’t have a kitchen table. I didn’t have a table. I didn’t have a chair. And I didn’t spend those five-and-a-half years because, not because I wanted to get a house when I got out.”

Ummm...relavence?

Now, here is what a REAL LEADER sounds like. This is just one of my favorite parts of the speech Obama gave last night:

“If you don’t have any fresh ideas, then you use stale tactics to scare voters.
If you don’t have a record to run on, you paint your opponent as someone people should run from.
You make a big election about small things.
And, it’s worked before…because it feeds into the cynicism we all have about government. When Washington doesn’t work, all its promises seem empty. If your hopes have been dashed again and again, then it’s best to stop hoping, and settle for what you already know. I get it. I realize that I’m not the likeliest candidate for this office. I don’t fit the typical pedigree. I haven’t spent my career in the halls of Washington. But I stand before you tonight, because all across America, something is stirring. What the naysayers don’t understand is that this election has never been about ME, it’s about YOU! For 18 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 in defining moments like this one the change we need doesn’t come FROM Washington, it comes TO Washington. Change happens because the American people demand it. Because they rise up, and insist on new ideas, and new leadership. New politics for a new time. America, this is one of those moments. I believe that as hard as it will be, the change we need is coming, because I’ve seen it, because I’ve lived it.”

So, I agree with everyone who chanted these words in the stadium last night:

I'm NOT willing to take a 10% chance on 4 more years of the same.

8 IS ENOUGH!!

YES WE CAN!! YES WE CAN!!! YES WE CAN!!!!

Obama supporters keep good company:

Funny e-Cards that I just happened upon...

http://www.someecards.com/