America is Back (And Other Clichés)

By Daniel Miessler on November 5th, 2008: Tagged as America

Wow, I feel absolutely euphoric. Obama’s acceptance speech was just phenomenal. He said precisely what he needed to say.

There’s not much I can add. I am just happy. It’s all been said before, and I lack the will to say it in a better way right now.

Tomorrow is just another day, but it’ll be better. Perception matters.

  • Eamon

    I totally agree. That speech gave me chills. It gave my wife and I a big sense of relief. That’s not saying that Obama is necessarily the be all end all to the country’s problems, but there seems to be a lot more hope now.

    We’ll have to see what happens.

    Now as far as McCain, his concession speech was very well done and I have to say quite classy.

    Some of the pundits were saying that the economy killed him. I don’t think so. From the perspective of a republican that never just votes for the party blindly, I have to say that McCain failed to convince me that he was the right leader for this country at this time. His talk of voting with the current president 90% of the time didn’t help his cause. This country needs a radical change from the last eight years, not more of the same.

    But the biggest thing that tore me away from the GOP was McCain’s choice of running mate. Sarah Palin horrified me. She seems like a cartoon from the Dark Ages instead of a leader. For me, she is what killed a vote for McCain over anything else.

    Obama won me over early in the primaries, lost me later and then won me back at the end. The reason? He seems honest and speaks like a real human being, he has the aura of a great leader, and the biggest thing, if you watch him interact with people, he genuinely listens to them especially if they disagree with him.

    Now that his party has control of Congress and the White House, they have a huge opportunity. I hope they don’t waste it. They need to repeal the Patriot Act and FISA and get the country steered away from the police state it was turning into under the Bush administration.

  • Eamon

    I totally agree. That speech gave me chills. It gave my wife and I a big sense of relief. That’s not saying that Obama is necessarily the be all end all to the country’s problems, but there seems to be a lot more hope now.

    We’ll have to see what happens.

    Now as far as McCain, his concession speech was very well done and I have to say quite classy.

    Some of the pundits were saying that the economy killed him. I don’t think so. From the perspective of a republican that never just votes for the party blindly, I have to say that McCain failed to convince me that he was the right leader for this country at this time. His talk of voting with the current president 90% of the time didn’t help his cause. This country needs a radical change from the last eight years, not more of the same.

    But the biggest thing that tore me away from the GOP was McCain’s choice of running mate. Sarah Palin horrified me. She seems like a cartoon from the Dark Ages instead of a leader. For me, she is what killed a vote for McCain over anything else.

    Obama won me over early in the primaries, lost me later and then won me back at the end. The reason? He seems honest and speaks like a real human being, he has the aura of a great leader, and the biggest thing, if you watch him interact with people, he genuinely listens to them especially if they disagree with him.

    Now that his party has control of Congress and the White House, they have a huge opportunity. I hope they don’t waste it. They need to repeal the Patriot Act and FISA and get the country steered away from the police state it was turning into under the Bush administration.

  • Eamon

    I totally agree. That speech gave me chills. It gave my wife and I a big sense of relief. That’s not saying that Obama is necessarily the be all end all to the country’s problems, but there seems to be a lot more hope now.

    We’ll have to see what happens.

    Now as far as McCain, his concession speech was very well done and I have to say quite classy.

    Some of the pundits were saying that the economy killed him. I don’t think so. From the perspective of a republican that never just votes for the party blindly, I have to say that McCain failed to convince me that he was the right leader for this country at this time. His talk of voting with the current president 90% of the time didn’t help his cause. This country needs a radical change from the last eight years, not more of the same.

    But the biggest thing that tore me away from the GOP was McCain’s choice of running mate. Sarah Palin horrified me. She seems like a cartoon from the Dark Ages instead of a leader. For me, she is what killed a vote for McCain over anything else.

    Obama won me over early in the primaries, lost me later and then won me back at the end. The reason? He seems honest and speaks like a real human being, he has the aura of a great leader, and the biggest thing, if you watch him interact with people, he genuinely listens to them especially if they disagree with him.

    Now that his party has control of Congress and the White House, they have a huge opportunity. I hope they don’t waste it. They need to repeal the Patriot Act and FISA and get the country steered away from the police state it was turning into under the Bush administration.

  • Eamon

    I totally agree. That speech gave me chills. It gave my wife and I a big sense of relief. That’s not saying that Obama is necessarily the be all end all to the country’s problems, but there seems to be a lot more hope now.

    We’ll have to see what happens.

    Now as far as McCain, his concession speech was very well done and I have to say quite classy.

    Some of the pundits were saying that the economy killed him. I don’t think so. From the perspective of a republican that never just votes for the party blindly, I have to say that McCain failed to convince me that he was the right leader for this country at this time. His talk of voting with the current president 90% of the time didn’t help his cause. This country needs a radical change from the last eight years, not more of the same.

    But the biggest thing that tore me away from the GOP was McCain’s choice of running mate. Sarah Palin horrified me. She seems like a cartoon from the Dark Ages instead of a leader. For me, she is what killed a vote for McCain over anything else.

    Obama won me over early in the primaries, lost me later and then won me back at the end. The reason? He seems honest and speaks like a real human being, he has the aura of a great leader, and the biggest thing, if you watch him interact with people, he genuinely listens to them especially if they disagree with him.

    Now that his party has control of Congress and the White House, they have a huge opportunity. I hope they don’t waste it. They need to repeal the Patriot Act and FISA and get the country steered away from the police state it was turning into under the Bush administration.

  • Eamon

    I totally agree. That speech gave me chills. It gave my wife and I a big sense of relief. That’s not saying that Obama is necessarily the be all end all to the country’s problems, but there seems to be a lot more hope now.

    We’ll have to see what happens.

    Now as far as McCain, his concession speech was very well done and I have to say quite classy.

    Some of the pundits were saying that the economy killed him. I don’t think so. From the perspective of a republican that never just votes for the party blindly, I have to say that McCain failed to convince me that he was the right leader for this country at this time. His talk of voting with the current president 90% of the time didn’t help his cause. This country needs a radical change from the last eight years, not more of the same.

    But the biggest thing that tore me away from the GOP was McCain’s choice of running mate. Sarah Palin horrified me. She seems like a cartoon from the Dark Ages instead of a leader. For me, she is what killed a vote for McCain over anything else.

    Obama won me over early in the primaries, lost me later and then won me back at the end. The reason? He seems honest and speaks like a real human being, he has the aura of a great leader, and the biggest thing, if you watch him interact with people, he genuinely listens to them especially if they disagree with him.

    Now that his party has control of Congress and the White House, they have a huge opportunity. I hope they don’t waste it. They need to repeal the Patriot Act and FISA and get the country steered away from the police state it was turning into under the Bush administration.

  • http://tracs.co.nz/gripping-hand/ Mark Harris

    I join in your happiness, Daniel. I think America’s future just got a little brighter. That said, he’s not the Messiah, he’s a very naught- oops, he’s just the leader of a group of people who have all got a hard job ahead. Good luck, we’re holding hope for you, here in the South Pacific

    ~mark

  • http://tracs.co.nz/gripping-hand/ Mark Harris

    I join in your happiness, Daniel. I think America’s future just got a little brighter. That said, he’s not the Messiah, he’s a very naught- oops, he’s just the leader of a group of people who have all got a hard job ahead. Good luck, we’re holding hope for you, here in the South Pacific

    ~mark


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