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"With profound gratitude and great humility, I accept your nomination for President of the United States." -Presidential Candidate Barack Obama

It's official, John McCain doesn't get it and we very well may have a black president as long as the electoral college or hanging chads don't screw us like in 2000. That was a sad day for me, the first election, I truly understood the process and immediately started to resent it and slightly jump on the conspiracy theorists bandwagon. I slightly agree with some critics that say Obama doesn't truly speak on platforms, he doesn't really talk about what he's going to do when he gets there and how he's going to do it. But to be honest, for the first time since maybe Clinton or Kennedy, we have a candidate who is blatantly honest about our situation. He speaks about the problems plaguing this country as I would to my friends and colleagues and doesn't gloss over them. He's relatable, a man of principle, literally you look at him as a man and not just a politician and it's refreshing, reassuring and truly invokes faith.

"This country is more decent than one where a woman in Ohio, on the brink of retirement, finds herself one illness away from disaster after a lifetime of hard work.

This country is more generous than one where a man in Indiana has to pack up the equipment he's worked on for twenty years and watch it shipped off to China, and then chokes up as he explains how he felt like a failure when he went home to tell his family the news.

We are more compassionate than a government that lets veterans sleep on our streets and families slide into poverty; that sits on its hands while a major American city drowns before our eyes." -Obama

Obama represents, like I do, the new world citizen; multiracial, multi-faith and encompassing of a more worldly view. It's hard to hate or be ignorant to difference when we embody so many differences. We are a lost and dying nation right now, hated by the world at large for being the obnoxious youngest sibling that incorrectly butted in where it shouldn't have and didn't stand up when it needed to. Obama is the catalyst to change that and if NOTHING else, support the man for getting an entire generation of apathetic thunder-thumbing button-pushers and Negative Nancy Nay-sayers to be ACTIVE. Perhaps the is the change that Sam Cooke meant....

To read the speech in its entirety go HERE.