Oh what? Obama!

I wish I would have counted the number of times he said thank you before his speech actually began. I counted 17 "thank yous" after a good minute of clapping and "thank yous" that I didn't think to count.

I think part of the thing that makes Obama so appealing is that he's extremely human. He presents himself and his knowledge almost as an offertory to the people. His humility makes you want to get to know him, to be his friend, to ask for his advice. I think this is an important characteristic of being a candidate for the presidency: you have to be open to the people, not just by progressive thinking and by offering answers to the problems of the people, but also in the way you conduct yourself...they way you act in the press, how whether your political campaign commercials bash your opponent and exalt yourself...or if they talk about the risk of social security provisions for the baby boom era.

Something I'm afraid of if Obama was to become president is the fact that many people are jumping on his bandwagon because he represents the one word that is necessary to life, unstoppable even: CHANGE. I'm not saying this is a bad thing to represent, I am just afraid of people voting for the wrong reason. I guess this goes back to our original question about educating others about civics.

It's odd that Obama is hailing what Clinton did in his reign as president when he just beat out his wife for the democratic nomination--not odd, but ironic I suppose. I like what Obama is saying (content wise) in his speech, but it would be much more helpful if both Obama and McCain were on stage together answering the same questions.
"A promise is the only reason I am here tonight."
-Barack Obama

The Democratic National Convention

It's super cool to watch this going on right now because this summer I went to a program called "Girl's State" and it's all about women in government. All 600 of us girls were split into 14 cities, each to run our own city government, make laws, etc. Each girl was either a federalist or a nationalist. We participated two party conventions where we were able to give and trade votes and let the "madame speaker" know how we wished to cast our votes. I never really understood how this worked until Girl's State, but seeing it on T.V. I understand it perfectly because I've participated in a fake party convention before.

It's actually really neat to watch since I know what's going on! I'm not really sure as to why Senator Clinton is attending to convention, rather than to make an appearance next to where the state of New York's delegates are standing (seeing as that's where she's from). Yep, that's why. She's there to cast the votes on behalf of New York to Barack Obama. I must say I admire her for being able to do so to her opponent. It's a classy move on her part. Senator Clinton moved to suspend the convention, seeing as he already has majority vote of all states in the DNC. The motion was adopted to accept Obama with a 2/3 vote of "I." Pretty neat to watch.