ONE GREAT SPEECH

I debated writing another political post but after thinking long and hard I felt I owned it to the Republican party to comment. I mean lets face it I have written enough about Obama; McCain should get a little blog time as well.
See as I was watching McCains speech trying my best not to like him I actually found myself feeling for his life. I liked the dedication that he obviously has for his wife and children, the forward thinking of his believe in Sarah Palin as Vice President, and the horror that he suffered years ago while fighting for a country he overwhelming loves. Granted he isn't the speaker that Obama is but he did his best to infuse his speech with all that he was feeling; which I will be honest was a welcome change from the three days of Obama bashing speeches that had preceeded him. He opened his life and I believe his heart for America to see and it was touching.
Yet as I was watching all the commentators at the end pick apart the speech and compare it to Obamas I was reminded of a statement a Republican commentator made about Obama's speech; "It's just one great speech". That is how I felt after McCains.....It's just one great speech. However, as I was thinking back about Obama's speech I started to feel the same about his as well. There all just "one great speech".
The truth is that you can make the best speeches in the world it doesn't mean that wen you get in office you are actually going to do anything different. You can have the best voting record, the most understanding personality, the best relationship with every world leader but you also could cave under all the pressure of being the head honcho. You could have spent years in a small closed in space feeling that you would never get out but it doesn't mean that you have the temperment to govern 50 states and you can say all the right things in all the right ways and still not know anything about what to do when you get in the big chair.
I have enjoyed all the speeches of the last two weeks and I look forward to all the debates and speeches of the next two months but more than anything I look forward to the "change" that whoever gets into office brings. Because in all fairness isn't that all we have heard for eight years in "one great speech" and even those haven't been all that great.