What a show!

Congratulations to Barack Obama for accepting the democratic nomination for President of the United States of America. It is indeed an historical day, and one that I am proud to have witnessed.

It was quite a spectacle put on in Denver. I heard one estimate of a crowd around 85,000. Impressive. Obama should get a bump from this night, but I think he will still stay within striking distance of John McCain. To me, Obama’s speech was not the greatest he’s given. I don’t think Obama knocked it out of Invesco Field, because he seemed a little nervous in some parts. When he attacks, he does not look comfortable, but he tries. The big question is will the Broncos ever win another game there?

McCain and the Republicans have the last say with their convention in a few days. While no one expects the GOP convention to have an ending like the Democratic one, there were plenty of things for the GOP can capitalize on in the coming weeks.

Several entertainers performed in front of the crowd. Sheryl (one square of toilet paper) Crow performed, as did Stevie Wonder, and Michael McDonald.

The video of Obama’s life was very nice. The Democrats do these well.

Obama made promise after promise so much that I would call his speech, “The Speech of Promises.” With Obama’s promises come some cost, and it is more than the USA can ever afford. He seems to want to penalize those who do good in business and in their occupations.

Ironically Obama spoke of McCain being in Washington too long and the broken politics of Washington, and that oil imports had tripled since McCain had been in Washington, but Obama’s running mate has been there even longer than McCain.

Obama tried to position himself as a good commander in chief. He used the line that the democrats gave to Jon Tester, “My [insert name of relative here, for example brother, father, grandfather] served in [insert name of war here], so I support veterans and military personnel.” He tries to talk a good plan, but I have doubts that he knows how to be a commander in chief.

Obama talked about Americans not agreeing on abortion, but trying to reduce the unwanted pregnancies. He spoke about gun ownership being different in areas of the country and keeping AK-47s out of the hands of criminals. He received loud cheers for speaking about same sex marriages when he said gay and lesbians should be able to visit their significant others in hospitals. He spoke of immigration and keeping families together and not separating them when one is legal and others are illegal.

After attacking McCain in the first part of his speech, Obama called for stopping the politics of the past. Interesting.

The first song played after the speech was Brooks and Dunn’s “Only in America.”

Only in America, Dreaming in red, white and blue. Only in America, Where we dream as big as we want to. We all get a chance; everybody gets to dance, Only in America

Yes, only in America! I am glad I was able to watch the show.