Election Issues Today

ACTION. CUT. AND PRINT. THAT’S A WRAP!

Yes, the Democratic Convention was like watching a well-rehearsed script.  But then, I pretty much expect the same thing from the GOP next week.

For the most part, Obama’s big speech was a re-hash of everything we have heard and read about his family, his background, his career, his beliefs, his accomplishments, his vision and plans for America.  Well, a little lite on the “plans” part, but otherwise, he summed up his entire campaign to this point; now he is off and “running” for the next 66 days, heading for the White House, he hopes.

Barack Obama had his party.  Many potential voters heard him speak in that big ol’ stadium in Denver.  I’ve read enough accounts of the evening’s speech to see that he impressed his supporters and didn’t change many minds of those who do not think he is the “Man.” Many say: “Where would he be if not for television?” 

I read recently that Obama’s opponents have called him the “biggest celebrity in the World” as though that were something bad. I guess they must think that would be an insult; but it is hardly appropriate to compare his celebrity to that of the likes of Paris Hilton. Perhaps his celebrity is more akin to Muhammad Ali, a person of great stature around the entire world, including the Muslim World, and Ali was certainly big in the United States as well…Muslim or not.  Yet, if there were the slightest truth to those internet rumors of Obama’s secret Muslim upbringing, his candidacy would be doomed.  Oh well, such is the fickleness of the American psyche.

So the big show moves to St. Paul.  Obama can take a break while McCain and his VP choice, Sarah Palin, Alaska’s governor, and all of the GOP biggies make their case for keeping the Grand Old Party in the White House.