thursday was a pretty exciting night: Barack Obama officially accepted the Democratic nomination for president, and gave a wonderful, moving speech. if you picked up the the twitter feeds that night, people were going crazy about it.
now i will admit that i was unable to see the entire speech due to my DVR getting a bit messed up about 3/4 into the speech. i tried to watch it on cnn.com and youtube, but only got bits and pieces. however, from what i had heard, i still find myself a bit skeptical.
this isn’t skeptical in the sort of i am not going to vote for him kind of way… i like his charisma and he delivered his speech with conviction and eloquence. so it’s not that i didn’t like his speech.
what really makes me skeptical is the content. now, i suppose i should preface this by saying that i do realize presidential candidates like to promise things they can’t really deliver, so maybe i have a right to be skeptical. it seemed like throughout his speech, i kept asking myself “how does he plan to accomplish that?” cutting taxes. pulling troops out of iraq. rebuilding social security. HOW?!?!
he seems to have a plan, and i’m sure that John McCain has a plan too. i’d like to know what it is, and i hope that by the time November rolls around, we’ll all have a better understanding of their plan.
maybe the national conventions are too early to expect plans. i hope it is, because i don’t want to feel like i’ll be wasting a vote this year. i’d like to know how each person plans to uphold their promises, specifically with getting their ideas passed through the senate.
btw, having Governer Palin of Alaska as McCain’s running mate. wow, great move. politically, it helped steal the spotlight from Obama a day earlier than expected. but, we all know it’s strictly a political move for votes.
anyways, i don’t really talk politics all that often, but it just got me thinking is all. i guess i’ll have to write something similar after McCain’s speech next week.
-m