08 Convention

Obama's speech gets a B+. Good oratory as usual, liked how he talked about the American dream and his place in it. Good narrative. Like how he laid into those bastards for playing with patriotism.

But something was missing for me. Morality! Yeah, he alluded to it, great. But he could have done more. Called those little (at least he called them small) people out for forsaking people after Katrina, for playing fast and loose with our constitution (wire-tapping, Guantanamo, etc). Call black...black. This is a moral election: elect people who play to the worst in us - our bigotry, our xenophobia, our self-righteousness, obscurantism - or those, like Obama, who place the goal higher, who think that Americans can be more than that. I wanted to hear about that.

My favorite speech of the convention? Kerry. He called them out for being the snakes they are.