The Day After

The inauguration is over yet I cannot help but feel that the effects of this weekend and Obama's campaign has somehow changed the way politics will be run from this point on.  Obama changed the game by talking about ideas such as Hope and Change rather than focusing simply on the issues at hand.  Without hope for a better life in the coming years no President can be successful.  Now President Obama is looking to mobilize a volunteer force one million people strong to perform service to our nation.  In addition to the good works done by these individuals keeping the people he cultivated as volunteers active will allow him to draw upon them in four years for a reelection campaign.

We have been out classed.  The Republican Party has been out thought, out manuevered, and out played.  So where do we go now?  Thats a great question, and unfortunately there is nothing easy about its answer.  We need new leaders of course but we also need people on the ground level to build our state parties.  But more importantly we have to give the American people a rational case for why this party deserves the pubic trust and what we are offering.  Next we need to open the doors of this establishment and air it out.  The old guard has to set back and make way for new leaders to rise.  This party is bigger than any one man and no one man should stop it from becoming the best that it can be.  If Barack Obama's story tells us anything it is that we need to cultivate our leaders and rising stars.  Do you think it is any accident that now President Obama gave the keynote address to the 2004 Democratic National Convention?  I do not, this was incredibly well planned.  The fact that Obama is such a great politician obviously did not hurt him either.