speech on race - a speech that should not be necessary in 2008…

… but unfortunately the speech is still necessary.  in case there are people out there that have not seen the speech yet … here it is:   as usual a superb speech that is both moving and invigorating at the same time, and is addressing a topic that a lot wish would not be necessary to give and others would rather ignore. i am not sure a president obama would make race something no one cares about anymore, but i would hope it would help to get there at sometime in the future. 

obama is most certainly electable

there are lots of people who say that obama is too young, he is unexperienced, and just not electable. to all of those people i just have to say, watch this video of him at google:

what i found most interesting when watching obama in this video was the clarity in the way he spoke about things. like any politician he hedges his answers, but he is able to create a vision which excites. he doesn’t do this by drowning one in statistics and data like hillary, because it is too early. he understands that as president he is not chief doer but chief leader, and only bad leaders do all the work (you probably know this from those micro-managing bosses at work, which i assume hillary would be).

also, and probably most importantly he is the first president that understands the age we live in. he not only understands the power of the internet to collect campaign money and spread his message, but unlike any other canidate or politician he is looking at how to use these new technologies in a way to spread governance and politic making.