Being a Republican, I was eager to view how Democrat presidential nominee Barack Obama would criticize President Bush’s administration as well as his rival, John McCain, during his speech at the National Convention. For those who wished to acquire the same, you can agree with me that Senator Obama didn’t disappoint.

As previously stated, I am a conservative by choice. No, I don’t sway to the right-wing just because mommy and daddy told me to. No, I don’t choose to because Republicans are favored in my resident state of Texas. And no, I don’t choose to because I want to rebel against immigrant tendancies of being liberal. If you really want to know, it’s the Republican ideology regarding business which gets my vote. But anyways, back to Obama’s speech.

It’s interesting to watch how candidates try to appeal to all sorts of people in the duration of their address. For example, Obama used his encounters with industry and military workers to appeal to individuals in those fields, stated his intention to equate the salaries of women with their male counterparts (thereby appealing to the female population), and proceeded to empathize with the distrust the population has in the government. Coupled with the fact that he’s a very eloquent and seemingly credible speaker, I’m sure he was able to sway many independents and Clinton-supporters to view him as a worthy candidate for POTUS.

Sometimes when you take a step back and actually listen to individual sentences a candidate says, it’s baffling how people can actually believe that he’s qualified to run a government. People get caught up in the overall flow of a speech and sometimes fail to notice the details. Obama made it seem like “rich people” were just born that way. He kept dwelling on the middle and lower classes while briefly making not-so-positive remarks about those with higher incomes. If he (and other Democrats) are simultaneously for small business prosperity and for raising the minimum wage, how would he handle frivolous lawsuits? Frivolous lawsuits tend to originate more often from certain ethnicities and, wow, go figure, the lower/middle classes. How does he plan to protect those ever-so-important small businesses from losing large fractions of their profits to escalating minimum wages and frivolous lawsuit claim? This is one of the many facets of a politician’s “plan” that I consider to be very important, and a fundamental reason that I’m a conservative.

In general, I think it’s going to be a tough two months leading up to the election for both candidates. McCain will probably publicize his vice-presidential choice tomorrow, and the media will naturally try to dig up as much dirt on him as possible. The Republican National Convention and the debates between the two candidates are still coming up, but after tonight’s speech, I think Obama (unfortunately) did a decent job in, well, doing what a politician needs to do at this point. His party is still divided after Hilary’s demise which may hopefully play in the GOP’s favor; however, this election is still far from over.

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