The Future of American Politics

If you've never heard of Barack Obama, you will. The Democratic candidate for Senator in Illinois gave the keynote address at the DNC last night. It took Clinton's "A more perfect union" theme and ran with it, emphasizing that a divided America can be one again. He touched on themes and images that evoked the American Dream, the urban experience, the struggles of blue collar workers.

My favorite tidbit

The pundits like to slice-and-dice our country into Red States and Blue States; Red States for Republicans, Blue States for Democrats. But I’ve got news for them, too. We worship an awesome God in the Blue States, and we don’t like federal agents poking around our libraries in the Red States. We coach Little League in the Blue States and have gay friends in the Red States. There are patriots who opposed the war in Iraq and patriots who supported it. We are one people, all of us pledging allegiance to the stars and stripes, all of us defending the United States of America.

Read the transcript, and then go watch it, for full effect. We've really got something here, folks. Perhaps one day, race will not matter on the electability of a president. It will start with Obama.