Good speech.  There’s no doubt (& I want so much not to be cynical, but…) in my mind, if Ted Sorensen, himself, wrote Barack Obama a speech, the gent, the student of public oration, the cat who can deliver the zam would convey it with pacing and a straight face and the crowd would swoon (…just enough to be okidokey widit).  Yes, I’m glad he’s representing at the dais, able to be eloquent & unifying ~~ it’s so refreshing, as it’s been far-far too long that we’ve been looked down at from the high stage by a mourn-inspiring buzzard circling over carrion.  But, sadly, it still gives me an itchy feeling, people.  Do I want Mister Obama taking his demeanor to every continent as an ambassador, a man of meaning, a high representative of America?  Yes.  If it can be, then let it be.  He’s got game.  But, please, as vice president to Morgan Freeman who still keeps his juke joint in operation in Louisiana (or the like); would feel a little less like the little Buddha was placed in the high chair about 8 years too soon.  If he truly is all about what his keynote speechwriter wants us to believe, then why not VP, perhaps the greatest, most statesmanlike young VP to ever grace our sea to shining sea & the world-at-large. 

We’ve barely survived the reign of Chaney-Bush, Inc., …& now they’ve begun to put their own houses in order, check their investments, earmark & murder just a few more liberties, gouge-out a few more billion in revs, and settle in front of their wide screens to chuckle over the long and dreadful calamitous cream-filled clean-up processes to come, a process they can tout as outa-their-undirtied-hands while they go unregulated into the warmth and fleece-lined comfort of X-Presidential impunity & security forevermore. 

I cannot see how it would hurt much if we have a charismatic X-ambulance chaser, litigator, unflinching bus-touring southern gent of fearless determination and grit, coupled with a spirited vital-eyed-young-republican gone democrat just this side of regal dark-skinned brother orator of heart & pride & nearly feasible words of unity for the next 8 years.   If Mr. Obama is the bomb now, with all his hair and no silver streaks, then let’s see what kind of gent he is after being flown a whirlwind around the world for 8 years as diplomat, high-envoy, red white & blue man of the people amidst the light-shadows of done-deal corporate zeal & unapologetic-highhanded slavetrade and landgrabbership.