Change!

O.K. I'm back!  Where have I been...not home!

Now on to tonight's historical speech.

With the backdrop made in the image of the Lincoln Memorial (which Caleb and I visited a few weeks ago)  Senator Obama delivered a speech that well was nothing like the speech delivered by MLK Jr. on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial on August 28, 1963.  I was really nervous that he would draw to that speech earlier than he did and that would have been a mistake.  I didn't take issue at all with the reference to it at the end.

Certainly the dream of Dr. King hasn't been achieved yet but I must say that no matter your politics (and mine are diametrically opposed to Senator Obama) we aren't near there yet but the fact that America just nominated an African-American for the office of President is huge on many fronts.  Today I am proud to be an American even though I had to stomach a lot of trash before Senator Obama took the stage.  (FTR...everything that has happened in the last 8 years has been the fault of President Bush.)  Whew, now I know where this gray hair and 20 pounds came from, I knew it was no fault of my own!  

I grew up in the south living a sheltered life in a middle class family never knowing the struggles of Black America.  

I am intelligent enough to realize though that this was a huge step forward for our country.  A statement was made tonight and we are a better country for it.  To quote a dear African-American friend of mine, "Despite how I feel about his policies (Senator Obama) I feel very inspired by the ramifications on all this for me and my family"

What a great country we life in!  God Bless America!  I was glad to watch all of this transpire tonight.

Now on to the speech.  Can anyone tell me what he said?  I mean he said it good but he said nothing differently than he did 6 months ago.  When will the press call him on it.  It was a bunch of fluff.  I agree with some of the statements he made there are many things that we need to work on in our country but how can we pay for all of these programs and cut taxes on 95% of working Americans.  Can you say Socialism.

I agree that we are at a defining moment in our country and

that is what scares me about Senator Obama.  It is not his Anti-Republican 

attacks that concern me.  That is simply politics, that is why the statements made by Joe Biden during the primaries just roll off of my back because it is what it is.  It happens on both sides of the aisle.  What deeply concerns me is the attack on the principles of God's Word that he openly shows disregard to the Word of God.  What he actually attacked in this speech was not the Republicans and John McCain those are just the opponents in November.  What he said fundamentally was that the Conservative stance made by the GOP and most importantly Christians like me is the wrong approach.  That is what this "change" is all about.

The fundamental rights of all Americans is Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness.  The morality of the majority of Americans was brought into question tonight.  Senator Obama said, well these are just small things.  I guess I didn't realize that the right to murder an unborn child and the right to unite yourself with a member of the same sex and to be treated like a married couple were just small things.  We already know that Senator Obama is pro-abortion because he doesn't want his daughter if she makes a mistake to be punished with a baby.  He told the American people tonight that these are just small things.  God forbid!

The change we need is coming Senator Obama says!  What change?  Are we going to change the fact that the last Democrat in the office of the President was raised by a single mother in a small depressed town in Southern Arkansas?  Are we going to change the opportunity for a young man whose father was non-existent in his life and was raised by a poor working single mom who rose above being partially being raised by his grandparents and then on to being nominated for President of the United States.  What other country in the world can you be someone with no pedigree and unknown end up in political office.  Seems like that things in America are not quite as horrid as they seem.  What a great country we live in.  

Senator Obama if you are going to change things please update us to HOW you are actually going to change.  The preacher from Alabama that you referenced in the end of your speech was more than just fluff.  Obama give us some substance.

Caleb standing where Dr. King did on his historic speech at the Lincoln Memorial.

It was good rhetorically tonight but very light on Substance.

The speech by Dr. King 45 years ago stated his dream.  Unfortunately tonight's speech wasn't quite as deep on substance as Dr. Kings.

But take heart if you don't quite know the direction that Senator Obamba and the Democrats want to take us.  Simply read or watch tonights speech and you will realize that Senator Obama just defined Socialism.  God help us!  The answer seemed to be well we are smarter than you...you just don't know what is good and best for this country...but I do (Yikes)  

Thankfully Socialism was not the dream of MLK Jr. 

Sadly today I fear that it is the dream of Barak Obama

Yes We Can!  But we better not!