Again

Well the Democratic National Convention is over, Obama has delivered his acceptance speech and McCain tried to steal the Dems thunder by announcing Alaskan Gov Sarah Palin as his running mate and the talking shirts at the cable news channels have described the action as they do.
What impressions were you left with?
Here're mine...
I'm kinda embarrassed to say so, but I find myself excited about Obama as the leader of my country...I know. Right? I can't help it...I find myself wanting to believe him. Of course one's expectations of honesty from a politition must be curbed lest one is tragically hurt by said polititions subsequent heinousness...and yet I want to believe. I've surprised myself by being inspired by Obama. At least he's saying the right things, as far as I'm concerned anyway. The changing of rhetoric is at least progress. I find that this man speaks of the things that seem important to me, domestically and globally.
The Republicans played typical political games by "allowing" the Dems their night, deciding to NOT "leak" McCain's Veep choice right after Obama's speech. Instead they waited til the next morning when the pundits were prepared to spend all morning lauding Obama's speech, thereby stealing the airtime from Obama and leaving the pundits handicapping the VP race and scanning their blackberries wanting to be the 1st to "report" that a flight was chartered in Alaska or who was still in their home state. It worked, so kudos to the little psuedo Roves for that, but it didn't change the fact that some 30,000,000 people watched Obama speak, many of which hadn't before or had very little.