… my body bruised, he’s got me with nothing to win and nothing left to lose-
oh, sorry.
Great speech as always and just as amazing was the sight of a packed stadium.
It does appear, though, that he’s going to continue this bail out bonanza by giving the auto industry by the billions in loans that they are requesting to help them solve a problem that they’ve been stonewalling and footdragging on for the last 20 years or more. (Similarly with coal and natural gas, although it seems one can take solace in knowing there’s at least a plan to pay for it.) I don’t expect him to get as pink as mass transit in this kind of speech, but it would be nice if some of those billions were allocated for mass transit in our country’s transportation overhaul.
Ron Paul has mentioned that Obama and McCain offer little variety when it comes to foreign policy, and it appears he is correct. This is difficult to stomach if you believe that this recent incarnation of terrorism has largely been manufactured by our government to perpetuate a war and oil agenda, as has the farce of Russian aggression. So we’re getting off foreign oil in ten years, but we’re still going to fight in areas where pipelines are in contention? Al Quaida now operates in 80 countries, apparently, so I guess that means we potentially have 1/3 of the world’s governments to topple?
Perhaps this points to the primary difference between Republican and Democrat in this election. The former (like Bush) gives us war and a bad economy. The latter (like Clinton) gives us war and a good economy.
I’m still for him over McCain, but I think there’s room for improvement.