Obama in Denver; my party hat awaits!

Seeing pictures from Obama’s recent rally in Denver, CO – yet again drawing a crowd of “well over 100,000 people”, I can’t help but be excited as the 2008 Presidential race draws to a close. Having been off-track for some time now, I anxiously await the level of respect that an Obama Presidency will bring to the United States. My vote is cast; my party hat awaits. ¶ It is, indeed, a compelling time in history, and John Hodgman perhaps says it best: ¶

“The thing that I find so compelling is that right now Obama’s whole campaign strategy is simply [to] speak to people as though they were adults and trust that the truth of the world situation will be evident to them. For him to be attacked as a friend of a terrorist, for ‘palling’ around with terrorists and to simply go back and say, ‘No, I’m not’? That was such a refreshing political moment. It’s like he’s saying, ‘Oh, you know that’s not true. You know what’s happening here.’ So much of the past eight years in politics, whether you’re a Democrat or a Republican, you have to acknowledge is based on what the Bush people to themselves have described outside the reality-based community. That the words they were speaking had no basis in reality and they felt no compulsion to exist in a real world. They were creating a world of their own imagining. They were writing their own book of fake trivia and that’s a fine way to make a living, but I don’t know that it’s a very productive way to run a country. And I think we are seeing the results of that right now. So from a very selfish point of view, I’m enchanted by the idea that a politician can come along and speak simply and clearly and truthfully to an electorate as though they are grown-ups and to feel the electorate respond to that. I’ve found that to be astonishing and especially now that we are in the end game and you see basically the McCain campaign has nothing left but conspiracy theories to throw at Obama. It really has become a fight between fantasy and reality, and although I don’t make my living off of it, I endorse reality.”