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I missed Obama's victory speech last night, but caught clips on TV and watched it online.
Andrew Sullivan gives his opinion...
I've now listened to and read dozens of his speeches, on television and in person and in print. Tonight was, in my judgment, the best. He was able to frame the attacks on him as a reason to vote for him. He was able to frame his foes as the status quo - beyond the Clintons or the Bushes, Democrats or Republicans. He was able to cast his candidacy as a rebuke to the Balkanization of the American public, a response to the abuse of religion for political purposes, a repudiation of the cynicism that makes all political commentary a function of horse-races and spin. It was an appeal to Democrats, Republicans and Independents to say goodbye to all that. It was a burial of Rove and Morris. And it was better than his previous speeches because he kept bringing it back to policy specifics, to the economy and healthcare and, movingly, to this misbegotten war. The diverse coalition he has assembled - including an ornery small-government conservative like me - is a reflection of the future of this country, its potential and its irreplaceable, dynamic cultural and social mix.
This is the America we all love. He is showing us how to find it again. That's leadership.
2 comments:
When a conservative like Andrew Sullivan goes on and on about how great Obama is (over the past several months), it just deepens my concern about the way Obama would govern.
If Obama is elected, either people like Sullivan are going to be very disappointed, or people like me will be.
desmoinesdem -
I had many of the same concerns about Obama that you have. If you read my endorsement of him, I tried to tackle those concerns.
If you look at Obama's ability to bring people together then real change will occur. Obama is not talking about bringing Republicans and special interests in DC together, but is talking about brining people like you together with your neighbors and with those Rockerfeller Republicans that you wrote about. Once there is a large coalitions behind him, then real change can take place.
Obama wants to change the rules of the game in Washington and then the government will be once again We the People.
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