Change For A Nickel

In case you were not aware I have been watching the Democratic convention with more attention than I watched the Olympics.  Yes, I know most of it is staged but you know I’m a political geek (along with other types of geekiness!).  I had been watching the convention on PBS but realized that I was missing 1/2 the convention because the damn pundits were yacking during some interesting speeches and performances!!  So I put my tech geekiness to work and hooked up the old laptop to my TV and got a direct feed without bullshit interruptions of the convention in high definition!  It was great.  I thought there were some excellent speeches all week including Hillary Clinton‘s.  Her speech was great.  Awesome to see Teddy.  I had a tear in my eye when he said he would be there in January.  The man is a legend.  And if Kerry and Gore had the kind of passion they showed this week maybe we would not have had to suffer through the past 8 year nightmare!  But Obama delivered as I knew he would.  It was almost like watching a symphony.  He did exactly what was needed and took the fight back to the McCain camp.  The one thing he said that hit home for me was when he said “…we all put our country first.”  No one should sit back while their patriotism is being attacked.  As a Veteran I find it highly offensive for anyone to attack another American’s patriotism.  If we thought the primaries were something the next couple of months will make the primaries look like a love in!