Obamanated!

Yeah I know, another Obamanym, but I couldn't resist. Anyhow, I just got done watching the speech given by Obama at Mile High Stadium, and up until about 5 minutes into his 45 minute speech, I was convinced that he's going to be the greatest thing to happen to this country in a long while. Now I say this from a former Republican standpoint, because I come from a conservative background, and tend to not have a lot of tolerance for extreme liberalism. I am starting to see a swing to the right a bit more in the Democratic party with Obama getting the presidential nod. I like that he has called McCain, and the GOP out on the floor, and is demanding that they start getting in touch with the reality of governing the United States of America, instead of their political mumbo-jumbo, full of empty promises to the American people. He has made it clear that Republicans do not govern, but instead they let the country ride the dangerous wake of their disorganized, unplanned, and threatening foreign and domestic policies. All of which have left the American people out in the cold and harsh realities of economic despair, employment hardships, and a government toward whom they cannot turn. I think my decision has been made based on Obama telling us, that we have come the crossroad, "a moment when our nation is at war, our economy is in turmoil, and the American promise has been threatened once more."
Obama has brought in both parties and even an awakening third, the Independents, by not only making note of them in his speech, but recognizing that McCain was a true war hero, and a political hero for breaking away from his party when he felt that his beliefs and views were in contrast to those of his out of touch, and failing party. This is what I like about Obama, because unlike a "celebrity", he puts his political ego aside to recognize his opponents strengths as a non-partisan player. Unlike the GOP, that constantly bashes Obama and the Democrats, nit-picking at every last detail of their platforms, moral fiber, and even their family members. If we consider how Bush in his 8 years of false "compassionate conservatism", we can see that the Republican party is not at all compassionate, and really has no sense of understanding the deep rooted suffering that Americans have faced during his presidency. Where's the compassion in that? Where is the compassion in their foreign policy, when they decided to go to war? Where was the compassion, in letting hurricane victims drown, and be permanently removed from their homes? Where is the compassion in even showing up to your own party's national convention? What is so compassionate about lying in order send our men and women into battle?
Anyhow, McCain is steeped also in that lack of compassion, because in Obama's words, he just "doesn't get it." The Republicans are out of touch, and when this is the case, they really can't comprehend the needs, and the hardships of the people they are supposed to serve. The Republicans don't get it simply because, when the Democratic National Convention occurred, 84,000 people packed into a football stadium to hear Obama accept his nomination. Obama had the full support of all his former Democratic contenders. The streets were filled with more protestors than there were police forces, and there was no need for showboating. The show came to Obama, and Denver was raising the roof.
In contrast to this, the Republican National Convention, was held in a much smaller venue, the current president, for the first time in the history of the RNC, didn't show up to support his party's candidate, and McCain scrambled for a female president absolutely incapable of running a state, let alone an entire country. The Democrats didn't need to desperately seek out an individual to leech off the Republican's female support. And what respectable presidential candidate of a conservative party selects a running mate without even a glance at their political background, which contains numerous discrepancies. On top of this have you seen the amount of police force used in St. Paul over the passed few days, in response to peaceful protests? It just goes to show, whether they were violent or not, there were a lot of people there who were not just angry, but absolutely fed up with the Republican party's failure to effectively govern.
Effective governing comes from the people, and not from its leadership. The masses know what is good for them, and what will provide them safety from the cold threatening world. We will not stand to be fearful of things that we cannot control. We will not let a small handful of powerful men control our thoughts, freedoms, and livelihood. We will decide the fate of our country, not the Republicans, not the Bush administration, not the rich, not the police, and we will decide who will make our country stronger, and a fruitful place to live. We have withstood way too much passive aggression from the current administration, and it's conservative supporters, and Obama hit it home for me when he said, "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."