People Are Hungry For Change

[illinoisprogressive]

karen Russell - the daughter of Basketball ledgend bill russell - wrote an oped of the obama event in Seattle. i have seen all these stories about it today. I think it must have been a very raucous and exciting event. wow.
Anyway, karen explains how People are hungry for change:

"He's right. Voters want real change. Voters want real leadership. While the Republicans are busy looking for their next President Reagan, Democrats are busy looking for their next President Clinton and they have found him in Senator Obama.

Obama is simply the best public speaker running for President. Period. '

She then goes on to trash Bush and that the country is more than ready for them to go away now. I especially like the part where she calls them cockroaches.

"As I see it, Americans are fed up with this Administration. They are sick of the mind-boggling, "just when you think they can't top it and they do" incompetence. They are sick of the imperial arrogance. They are just waiting Bush and Rove out as their scandal pile grows: the outing of Valerie Plame; and "hecka of a job " Brownie and the White House's botched response to Katrina. Americans are ashamed of our lightweight, head lawyer Alberto Gonzales cheerleading for torture and his "the dog ate my paper" US attorney scandal. And of course, there's the war. Most Americans are sick of this current Administration. Sick. Of. It. Even conservatives like Peggy Noonan are sick of it. Sick of Bush

President Bush rose to power masquerading as a uniter. Bush's team were dividers using a familiar litany of dog-whistle threats and bogeymen: abortion, the gays and same-sex marriage, the ten commandments, evildoers, etc.

Last night, Obama reminded us that we really aren't as divided as the right would like us to believe. As the clock runs out on these cockroaches, America prepares to reverse eight years of mismanagement and elect someone who can lead them to the promised land. Last night that person was Obama."

[dave_p]

1. Amerixca hasn't been like this since the 1930s

No limits, candidates. No kowtowing to failed policy convention. Follow your principles. All of you. Change America decisively - for the better, and to take its place in a changing world.