Will Obama Ever Be Good Enough?

Thursday, August 28th was the final day of the Democratic National Convention, and Barack Obama took the stage, accepting the party's nomination for president. Before Obama spoke there was a short biographical film giving Obama's history from his grandparents, parents, and finally his own childhood. The film included a timeline of Obama's life until the presidential nomination, and in the background he explained how he got to where he is now, and who he thanks for it. After the film Obama gave his acceptance speech, and gave even more detail about his childhood- like when his mother would wake him up at 4:30 in the morning to study, even though he didn't want to. And how he only met his father for a month, and then never again. After the speech I turned to PBS so watch some of the commentary on the speech. The reporter was asking other commentators what they thought of the speech, and listened to what they had to say. Then he chimed in, and said that after the Convention it was now going to be Barack Obama's job to tell the people who he is, because they didn't know anything about him. Seriously? I don't think the commentator even listened to the speech, or the rest of the convention for that matter, otherwise I'm not sure how he happened to miss that part.