So I’ll be completely honest with y’all: I have one shitty schedule right now. For any of you who aren’t updated, I’m out on the E coast in med school- basically, cut off from the outside world for the past three weeks. Basically it boils down to this: I only got around to watching Obama’s speech accepting the Democratic nomination this morning. (Sad! I know).
But I digress.
I had expectations, of course. They included a lot of talk about hope, dreams, etc etc. I knew, from having been in a stadium full of Obama supporters, what the reception would be like. What I didn’t expect: just how damn good he delivered.
It was perhaps some of the best political oratory that I had heard…probably ever. Not only was it incredibly inspriation (and damn, could I use some right now!) but he did a great job of kicking McCain down a few notches. He alluded to his background, to history, and talked about concrete ways that he was going to bring about the change that everyone around the Obama campaign has been talking about for weeks.
But mainly, it was amazing to me to actually see this man in the position that he is today. As a half-black, half white individual, someone who came from humble beginnings, a person of color with a Islamic background, Barack Obama represents the type of man or woman who has been excluded from the political stage from the day of America’s inception. In fact, it is hard to believe that only sixty years ago, men like Obama were beaten and threatened if they tried to even vote. To see his accepting the Democratic nomination–and in grand fashion–is something so amazing it is hard to believe. Or least hard to believe for the millions of Americans of color who have NEVER seen anyone like them ever step foot onto that stage.
But Obama did. And damn, did he do it in style.
