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According to Twitter there were 28,003 tweets per minute at the conclusion of Obama's remarks. That's about double the number after Romney's acceptance speech last week, which was 14,289 tweets per minute at its peak. WOW. Michelle's speech was inspirational, graceful, humbling, poignant, and hit home for a lot of people. I have never thought that the spouse's speeches during national party conventions were the game changing speeches designed to convince swing voters to support the party's nominee. The spouses speech is more so a speech to renergize the base and remind them why this candidate is the one that's speaking to the heart of the party. I voted for Obama because I believed he was a different politician. He started as a community organizer and anyone that's done community organizing knows that it's a thankless and low paying job. You don't get a lot of respect from others in this field so the people that decide to stick to it are doing so because they believe in what they're doing and they are resolved to make a difference. Obama convinced me that he cared about me, my mother, my grandmother, my siblings, my brother fighting in Iraq, my veteran father and uncle. He made statements that weren't clouded by political tactics. He said things that were unpopular but necessary. Michelle reminded us of this man. The man she fell in love with, the man that loves his country and the dream it allowed him to live. This man, our president, lived the dream all of us can live and he's working to help make it not so hard. Helping each other when you can isn't a handout. Understand that life is hard and it's not getting easier, therefore, when you can do something for the people who need it most, it is your duty as an American to do so.
"We were so young, so in love, and so in debt."If you're in your 20's you know this student loan struggle is real. College costs are over-inflated and for many of us the degree on the wall is the equivalent to the price of our potential first home. I read an article a few weeks ago stating that we're the cheapest generation because we're slower to buy cars and homes than the generations that came before us. Hmmm, that $70k degree your college advisors told you would be worth it for the experience, alumni connections, and higher pay only led you to the $40k job in the big city where rent is $800 and your student loan payments are $600. Or you may be "lucky" and living rent free in your old bedroom at home, but this isn't the American Dream. This isn't what we thought of when we were growing up. This isn't how we wanted or planned on starting our lives or making our mark in the world. When hope is frail it's hard to live. I don't mean living in the organic sense of waking up, eating, breathing, and shitting. I mean really living. Reaching for your dreams, taking risks. It's hard when you know you have responsibilities and a burden of debt hanging over your head that our parents didn't experience until their 30's.
The dreamers are dying. While the Romney's say look to your parents for money or shop around, Michelle told us last night that she lived the struggle with her husband and they kept dreaming and working and fighting for the opportunities. Now look at them. The dream hasn't died, it's changed with the times but it's still ready for the taking. Like any parent the Obama's want more for their children and all of America's children. Obama wants to help us by giving us the same opportunities he had and even more. That's the American way. Paving the road for future successes for future generations. Not limiting our access to education by shrinking pell grants and increasing interest rates. Not by increasing taxes on the middle class and telling us to deal with it and wait for the wealthy to privately trickle down their generosity. Not by taking away the rights that women have over their own body. Not by telling the elderly that they have to choose between feeding themselves or medication because universal health care is too similar to socialism and you can make due without it.
Consider me re-energized.
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