Joe Biden gave a nice speech, but for me Michelle Obama was the star the first night.
I read her book this winter and I’m almost certain I’m the only white male below the Mason Dixon Line to do so…but I like Michelle.
The parts about her book I enjoyed the most were the chapters about her parents and how hard they worked to give Michelle and her brother Craig a fair shot at the American Dream.
I actually find her story almost as inspirational as that of Barack Obama’s. The difference is he’s a dreamer and she’s a pragmatic realist. Make no mistake about it…Barack Obama was an inspirational president unless you live in Oklahoma, Alabama, or some other SEC outpost.
And yet…Joe Biden and Kendra Horn are both leading in the polls in Oklahoma County as I blog. Maybe there is some hope and change within us.
I think Michelle’s speech basically said ..’We’re better than this. We’re better than being run into the ground by a grifter who no one would have ever heard of if his daddy Fred Trump hadn’t left him $420 million dollars in 1980 dollars. No one would have ever heard of this person otherwise because he’s failed at every thing he’s done from a business and personal standpoint. He’s a punk.’
We should all be courteous and respectful of one another. We should look for the good in others because it is all around us every single day even within the people who voted for Donald Trump.
There is an inherit goodness in the American people which needs to be rekindled.
But most of all the American Dream should be available to 330 million people if they’re willing to take the right path and do the difficult things.
I loved her speech and I have to be the only white guy in Oklahoma who would write this on his Thunder basketball blog.
But this is why I have a blog.
Be better…America. Be better.