2 - DNC Week

Now I should have started doing all this a while ago. So, I’m going to play a little catch up. Starting with the Democratic National Convention. This was the first national convention of I had ever attempted to watch.

I was busy doing school stuff for the opening day and Michelle Obama’s speech. So I watched it in full on the internet later that night, or perhaps the next day. Although I found her quite a fine speaker, engaging and easy to listen to, I didn’t feel like there was much worth listening to. Of course the point of her speech wasn’t to tell people about issues or anything I wanted to hear, it was saying “Hey look we are Americans with American values.” Great, fine, next day please.

Now I was home for day 2 and tried to watch a lot of the live DNC feed. After the first 45 minutes or so I realized I really didn’t need to watch all 4 or whatever hours of it. Just person after person saying pretty much the exact same thing with a few different words and a slightly different accent. I wanted to see the Hillary speech though, so I made sure to tune back in closer to when she was supposed to speak.

From the get go, I did not like Hillary Clinton. During the beginnings of the primaries I found myself sickened by her. Something about the way she spoke. It was slow, made me feel like she thought her audience was a bunch of children. And as the months grew longer and it came down to just her and Obama, I found just about everything she said to grow increasingly atrocious.
I was one of those people afraid of what she might do up on that stage during the DNC. But once she got up there and started speaking my mind was soothed. She didn’t say or do anything to draw support away from Obama. She didn’t alienate her supporters. She did exactly what I had wished for months before.

Day 3, school once again making me miss the live broadcasts of Bill Clinton and Joe Biden. And once again I watched both speeches later on with the help of youtube. Bill was a great speaker as always and I trust his charisma campaigning for Obama in the general election will be very nice to have. As for Joe Biden, he gave a good speech. He attacked McCain without overstepping the line the Obama Campaign is refusing to cross. I must say though, having Obama come out as a surprise afterwards, although exciting, made me forget a lot of what Biden had said.

The final day at the different location. I wanted to badly to watch that one live. But alas, my job got in the way that night. But when I got home I watched Obama speak to the impressively large crowd. He outlined many of the things he wants to accomplish. I’m sure much of it won’t really get done, but when Obama speaks he sounds sincere. He sounds like he really is wearing his “American Hat.”

But of course, with Friday came the announcement of Sarah Palin. I was driving and listening to NPR and heard about it. At first I just heard the name and thought, “Wait hold on, did they say Sarah? A Woman?” As the voices continued to elaborate much of my hope from the night before was coated with a sickening bile that the GOP really pulled something like that. My mind instantly assumed the attempt at disgruntled Hillary voters. I’m happier now knowing that was a slightly lesser reason for the pick though.

That is it for tonight though. Next time I’ll get on about the RNC and much more of my Palin opinions.