I am eagerly looking forward to Barack Obama's historic speech tonight in Denver. He has successfully and miraculously gotten this countries attention and peers to be the anti-bush we have all been praying for. But is he? Will this convention point to Barack as a moderate mediator, looking for a golden ticket, or the true democratic messiah we have all been looking for? Barack is not Jesus, he certainly is not Mosiach and we all hope he is not the next American celebrity obsession. What he appears to be is a genuine man with a strong vision for this country. Young people have rallied in the support of Barack in record numbers because we remain to be dreamers. Lennon taught my parent's generation to be dreamers, Martin Luther King, Robert Kennedy, JFK all gave there lives for a dream. Obama harkens back the ideals of these great 20th century innovators who thrived in era that demanded change and progress. Politics aside, Barack is at least a bold beacon of hope. I trust his instincts and admire his tenacity. Young people don't care about experience. Look what Cheney and Rumsfeld brought to the table with theirs. Young people admire a presidential candidate with a fall away jump shot, that text messages Scarlett Johansen, that inspires street art and fashion and that talks to the French with ease. Barack isn't a flash in the pan celebrity, his hipness isn't a fluke, yet his chances to be President somehow now balance on these precarious assumptions. I just hope Tom Cruise isn't there tonight with Oprah.
