[Cadaverous Pallor]

I thought the speech was great, of course. He said a lot of things that needed saying.

I love that he set the bar high, ala Kennedy's moon landing challenge, by saying he'd challenge us to get off foreign oil dependency in 10 years. It was so amazing I rewound it and watched that line again.

I truly am proud of our country for getting Hillary Clinton so close and Barack the nomination. It's a different world than it was 4 years ago, no mistake.


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On another note...I have to say that this week of watching Dem speeches with new eyes and ears has hammered home why liberals and conservatives can easily dismiss each other's concepts and ideas. The words mean different things.

If you have never worked in education, you may have trouble understanding why teachers want higher salaries. If you have never relied on low paying, blue collar jobs as my father has his whole life, you may have trouble understanding why he wants to keep every dollar he earns. If you come from a military family you may have trouble understanding how someone can protest a war waged by our own country. If you grew up a vegetarian you may have trouble understanding how anyone would want to hunt for their food, as some families have done for generations.

It may sound obvious, but it's more true than we realize. The words mean different things. The speeches mean nothing to those that don't speak the language. Words like "deserve", "help", and "freedom" mean far different things.

The truth is that you can't have this large a landmass with this many people and not have large disparity in experience. Red and Blue is inevitable. It was the story of the Civil War, it was the story of America's independence.

We have to remember that we are two sides of the same coin. That without the workers, without the teachers, without the intellectuals, without the muscle, we are nothing. We must be able to keep what we earn to some degree and give it to each other to some degree. We need to think of ourselves and also think of our country. We need to disagree and still see that there is truth in what the other is saying.

Seriously, people. The conservatives have a point, the liberals have a point. Right now, I'd say it's pretty easy to see that we need to throw the current rascals out and go for some change. And, God/fate/Discordia willing, we will do a bit of good in this world.






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