On this historic day, the Democratic Party of these United States of America has chosen an African-American to lead their party and our country in what will be our future.  Senator Barack Hussein Obama, a man of Black and White blood, a man of various cultures and identities, a man who seeks to lead not just one party or a particular sect of our country rather choosing to lead all Americans - is the presumptive Presidential Nominee for the Democratic Party.

Today he probably gave one of the greatest speeches ever in American history (so far he has given two others in what has been a year long Presidential Primary Race).  He clearly outlined where he wanted to take this country.  What he said is what he said, and what he said is buoyed by he’s done through out his life.  Republicans would have you believe that what Obama says on stage somehow doesn’t match up with what he does off the stage, what he says off the stage, or the people he knows off the stage.  Republicans would have you believe that Sen. Obama can talk the talk but he can’t walk the walk.  The fact is, Sen. Obama is walking the walk and has been since he first started his public service career.

We can’t know if, in the future, Sen. Obama will perform actions and carry out deeds contrary to what he has delivered to us in his speeches during the campaign season, and through his legislative and judicial career starting in Illinois.  Republicans, however, would have you believe that we can know, that we do know.  However, throughout all their pickings, they only ever seem to be grasping at straws.  They attacked his Pastor, Rev. Wright, ignoring the fact that hundreds of thousands of Pastors across the country produce sentiment from the pulpit equal to or greater in hatefulness then those sentiments purported by Rev. Wright, with millions of Americans not leaving the pews rather choosing to ignore those specific hateful sentiments.  Republicans attacked Sen.  Obama’s wife for stating that she was, for the first time in her life, proud of America, completely ignoring the faces of prejudice colored people, including myself, have gone through over the years and still stand up to every single day.  She didn’t say she wasn’t proud of firefighters, police officers, and the fighting men and women of our Armed Forces.  Those precious few, are Heroes among 300 million Americans.  We are all proud of our Heroes they are the greatest, most courageous, Citizens of our Country, but they are not the Country.  America is the majority, America is you, me, and the neighbors.  Heroes are singular, iconic, precious - they are not countries.  Finally they greatest kick I get is when they mention that Obama has a liberal voting record, completely ignoring the fact that his “liberalness” is “calculated” via the number of times he votes within party lines.  This is no way to measure what a man thinks.  Liberalism is an idea not a voting record.  It’s fine to point out the fact that he voted with his Democratic colleagues a majority of the time, just like it’s fair to point out that Sen. McCain voted with his friends in the Bush Administration 100%-95% of the time, but that’s not what they go about pointing out.

Sen. Obama wants to make Healthcare affordable to those who cannot afford it, and free to those who are children (or elderly?).   Sen. McCain says that’s liberal, when he himself claims to want to make Healthcare affordable.   This sort of “cow dung” Sen. McCain flies around will get him far with the “dumb uneducated vote” but it’s not what Americans want to see in their President.  Some would argue that Sen. Obama would want to subsidize Healthcare to make it affordable, Sen. McCain on the other hand would want to make Healthcare affordable through regulation - to which I would remind the opposition, regulation is not free, and can be as costly as subsidization.  Today Sen. McCain also gave a speech in which he lambasted every policy point of Sen. Obama’s.  Unfortunately for Sen. McCain he doesn’t have a single sound policy point himself.

On the economy, McCain said he would need to learn more about it (which is why I can’t really write more about such because you can’t argue with somebody who doesn’t know anything). 

On the Iraq War, McCain mistakenly thinks that we are winning peace in that country because of the surge of troops.  In fact, and as the the Military points out in their own briefings, we are winning peace in Iraq because of a surge of free money we are handing out to the citizenry of Iraq.  As soon as the policy for the surge was undertaken another policy for a different kind of surge was undertaken as well.  When more boots hit the ground in Iraq, so to did more money, not for our troops, but for contracts, bribes, and fraud - the Arab way (in which case it’s not really any of the above, it’s just how they do business).  More troops on the ground allowed for more face time between Military Officers and local Tribesman to work out deals to halt the violence.  Most of the time these deals would involve the handover of money by the U.S. to the local tribesman to ensure that his people stayed in check and off the streets shooting Americans.  This was not some brilliant military strategy devised my the Vietnam Veteran turned Senator, John McCain.  It was the realization of the U.S. Army has to how business is done in the Middle East.

(Pt. 2, coming soon)