Passing The Torch

By Kleinheider Posted on August 29, 2008 at 6:41 pm

R. Neal wraps up his coverage of the Democratic National Convention:

Anyway, Obama rolls like a rock star and his well-run campaign has done an incredible job of energizing a new generation of voters and attracting working-class Americans who are willing to at least take a look at the long-overdue change Obama is selling.

And looking around at the young (and young at heart), diverse, highly-charged crowd at Mile High stadium, there was a palpable sense of the torch being passed from the Baby Boomers in charge of Depression-era politics to Generation X, with Generations Y and Z jumping on the bus for the wild ride into November.

The Obama campaign’s masterful job of juxtaposing stodgy, old-school GOP politics and the image of their fossilized leadership with the spectacle of last night’s stadium-rock-fueled 21st Century politics gets one thinking “maybe we can,” which is the first step to closing on “yes we can.” I don’t know how it played on TV, but Obama, the “always be closing” candidate, likely moved millions of prospects one step further down the road to closure.

Speaking for us fatigued Baby Boomers on board, all I can say is that we’re happy to hand over the reins of government (well, maybe not the Clintons so much), but these kids, they’d better deliver.

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