speech, speech

So I haven't caught any of the convention before tonight, but I wanted to be sure to see Obama's big speech (sure, I can see it on endless replay later, but it was important to me to see it in real time).  A home run, that's for sure.  I'll tell you what:  there are days when this seems more or less inevitable.  It's very encouraging.  I mean, I voted for Clinton and Gore and Kerry because that was who there was, but this is the first time a candidate I was pleased with made it as far as actually getting the nod (for the record, my preference in '04 was Howard Dean, so, yeah.  Clinton was incumbent in '96, of course, and Gore was a shoo-in in 2000, so 2004 has been the only election in my voting life where I've had a primary to deal with).  This will be the first candidate I will be glad to vote for, instead of just fine with voting for under the circumstances (or resigned to voting for, or shrugging and considering it a vote against the other guy).

There are other days, mind you, where I reflect that surer things have gone badly wrong before, and I won't really be confident until about November 15th.  It's not in the bank yet, you guys.

... But tonight was the first one, the feeling that it's inevitable.  Ten weeks.  We can make it another ten weeks.  Let's do this thing.