Yes We Can!!!

     For any of you who were not aware, the last week in this past August was when the 2008 Democratic convention was held, and what a convention it was!
Though the convention had been going on since Monday morning, I did not get the opportunity to go to any events until wednesday. Wednesday, the third day the DNC was in session, was the day that I went to Pepsi Center to listen to a number of political superman, former President Bill Clinton. While my experience at the Pepsi Center was less than desirable, the speeches were wonderful. Words of change, and words of support for the middlemen of America, it was great. My favorite speech of the night was Bill Clinton's because of the fact that he finally let go of the feelings brought on by the tight presidential race between Obama and his wife earlier in the year and just showed up to support Obama and speak on his behalf.
     Thursday, the fourth day that the DNC was in session, was the most anticipated day of all, it was the day Obama was set to speak. Tens of thousands of people stood in lines to get into Invesco Field, the setting for Obama's speech, and though I have to admit that the hour I waited in line to get into the stadium and the other 45 minutes I waited for a seat left me a bit perturbed, when I saw the sight of a hundred thousand people chanting "Yes we can!" I was stunned. Many people spoke, among them Al Gore, Joe Biden, and various union workers and military men, but noone was really that interested in them, they just continued chanting Obama, waiting for their hero to appear. Time drug on and on until the anticipated hour, 8 O'clock arrived. People went crazy. It was as if all these hundreds of thousands of people were drug addicts and Obama was their fix. The energy was incredible. When Obama began his speech people couldn't contain themselves. obama's entire speech on supporting middlemen, and tax cuts for lower income families was riddled with shouts from the crowds all sounding like "yes we can". I walked into Invesco Stadium with an atittude of slight indifference and walkes out screaming and cheering just like everyone else in that stadium. I'm convinced, convinced that this man, Barack Obama, can be the one to change america, and I'm pretty sure that anyone that went in to the filed uncertain were damn well convinced when they left and were probably waving their american flags and yelling "yes we can" just like me.