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I should be in bed already, but I just wanted to post some excerpts from Barack Obama's South Carolina victory speech after crushing his competitors yesterday, getting 55% of the vote from a wide coalition of voters to win by 28%.
I could go into the usual links about his experience , and having 3 more years in elected office than Hillary, a law degree from Harvard in Constitutional law, and spending his first years out of school working on the streets of the South Side of Chicago helping the poor and disenfranchised bring themselves up, instead of cashing in on a cushy job. Or mention his years spent overseas getting exposed to other cultures, so America can get past the Cowboy rouge "diplomacy" of the last few years, and instead regain the respect America has lost to our overseas friends.
Or I could talk about his policy that shows he's not just words but the real deal.
Or the endorsement from Caroline Kennedy, who wrote that "I have never had a president who inspired me the way people tell me that my father inspired them. But for the first time, I believe I have found the man who could be that president — not just for me, but for a new generation of Americans.".
Or mention his capability to get more people to vote for him in yesterday's election than the number of people in the entire SC primary in 2004.
Or that it's been shown that the more people learn about him, the more likely they are to support him. Such as when they find out the inexperience typecasting is wrong and he actually is a thorough candidate. Or find out, oh wait, that he's actually not a Muslim (which the idea that that should even matter is a whole other issue in itself).
Instead, I wanted to highlight some of the parts of his speech last night that really struck out to me, as someone who IS tired of the distractions and drama that gets passed off as politics. And as someone who thinks the problem is too often arguing over petty things to score cheap political points, instead of working to solve the real issues.
The choice in this election is not between regions or religions or genders. It’s not about rich versus poor; young versus old; and it is not about black versus white.
It’s about the past versus the future.
It’s about whether we settle for the same divisions and distractions and drama that passes for politics today, or whether we reach for a politics of common sense, and innovation - a shared sacrifice and shared prosperity.
Don’t tell me we can’t change.
Yes we can change.
Yes we can heal this nation.
Yes we can seize our future.
And where we are met with cynicism and doubt and fear and those who tell us that we can't, we will respond with that timeless creed that sums up the spirit of the American people in three simple words:
Yes.
We.
Can.
I highly recommend to watch the speech, or read the entire transcript and see for yourself what the excitement is about.
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