BY TAYLOR MARSH
It wasn’t something I was certain would work. Oh, I knew Barack Obama could
pull it off. He’s got game. But I just wasn’t sure I was ready for a 30-minute
presidential infomercial. Well, that’s not all Obama and his team had in mind.
The second the golden fields were shown and the music began, followed by the
open road, I knew they got what needed to be done.
Across the plains of this great country there are families that are in deep
trouble looking for a line to pull them out. I’m not just talking about a financial
line, but a sliver of hope that someone somewhere in a position to do something
about where this country is headed understands that all they’ve got is their
beliefs in this great land.
Sounds hokey, huh?
Some weighing in said the music
was too much. That Obama didn’t talk about how he’d pay for what he wants to
offer Americans. But America has never been about balance sheets on an accounting
grid. America is about something deeper, something we hold in our hearts and our minds. It is an idea.
Whether you get Obama’s candidacy or can appreciate what he is trying to say,
you had to watch last night’s epic tale of America’s present state hoping that
this just might be the guy who can rip away the festering negativity and unending
dismally small mentality of the people who currently have a grip on this nation’s
reality. Something’s just got to give and maybe this is our moment of liberation
from the downward spiral.
That’s when Obama said we’d have to be part of what he wants to do. That we
are responsible for it too.
The children, the families, the heartache of life’s disappointments and dreams
dismembered by reality all reminded me once again of why I’m a Democrat. Because
we believe we are responsible, including that we are our sister’s keeper, our
brother’s extra helping hand.
By contrast, you have the McCain-Palin crew who just don’t get it. They don’t
understand that Americans are looking for a yellow brick road away from all
things Bush, all things destructive to The Dream. Reminding them, as the McCain-Palin cronies do in the ads presented in this post,
of all the things wrong with where we are today isn’t going to win anything, except
a prize for tone deafness and the most cynical souls who have missed the most important
moment in modern history when Americans went looking to find that “shining
city on a hill” that Republicans took eight years, plus a few more in the
1990′s, to burn to the ground.
Contrasts on focus. People take the path away from darkness and towards the
glistening light every time, but especially when presented with the same path that didn’t work before.
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