I went to the rally in Austin. I waited in a long line and I was far away from the stage. But it turns out that there was this walkway into the crowd and Barack Obama was at that end, so he was really only several yards away from me. It was quite serindipidous. Yes, it rained for much of the wait and for some of his talk, but nobody paid any attention.
His style of speech is like no other. For most of the speech, it was completely silent in the crowd-- I can even hear the ambulances in the background. People actually want to listen to him. He only talked about a few key policy areas--- 1) Health Care, 2) Education, 3) the War. But he talked a lot about the importance of people making the world a better place--- he framed it in quite biblical terms. He said that the world's morality is a long arc, but it leans towards justice, and only with peoples' action can it lean further towards justice. It was quite poetic.
I do believe that he means it when he talks about a more participatory form of government-- one that isn't so top-down and filled with cronies.
At the end he said "lets get to work". So I guess that's what I need to do.
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