It was a great speech. He has some really good ideas. He didnt really talk about the issues there so much as the basis of his campaign, which is that government has lost sight of its actual purpose, getting distracted with petty political bullshit. He talked about common people taking back control of American government from lobbyists and special interest groups. He also mentioned bringing back the unity in American politics(and whether you are one of the few people who still support bush or not, there is no way you can deny he divided this country in a HUGE way). His thoughts on ther problems with the government alone are enough for me to vote for him.

Issue type things he did mention was a plan to bring the troops home by March of 08(which I totally agree with, and i dont like the arguemtn well what would happen Iraq would fold into chaos if we left. Theyre in a civil war right now folks, how much more chaotic can it get for a country, that is basically the lowest point a country can hit.) and also he said he wants to push for universal health care(which i also agree with, people say it can never work but it is working fine in other countries, although it is hard too say if it would in a country this size, but really there is no way of knowing until we actually work towards it). Also a big thing for me was that he dint discuss any morral or family values type issues at great length. I believe those sort of issues dealing with peoples private lives shouldnt be a part of the government. this meaning things like abortion, gay marriage, religion, and so on.

He is a teriffic speaker too. Maybe it was just because i was actually there but there really was fire behind his speech. The crowd really got into it. I thought it was better than 90% of political speeches I have seen.

As for the weather i was fine but my toes got cold as hell and even started to feel numb.

Crowd was very large. I was about 200 feet away from the stage but I still had to shift around to see him. Apparently you had to have a ticket to get in so I had to sneak in, which in that sea of people was not very hard. In fact it was a matter of walking past the guy checking tickets and not looking at him. There were snipers all over the place too which is something I have never seen. I saw no celebrities sadly.

OBAMA FOR PRESIDENT IN '08