Ita est!

I woke up on Monday morning after a four-hour sleep.

“… let’s help elect Barack Obama our president!”

I went to the bathroom.

“… let’s help elect Barack Obama our president!”

I walked the way to school.

“… let’s help elect Barack Obama our president!”

That seemed to be the chant of my tired brain that morning. I couldn’t drive it out!

“Let’s help elect Barack Obama our president!” I said to my classmates

“Hey, what’s wrong with you? What was that?”

“Let’s help elect Barack Obama our president!”

“Haven’t you slept at all?”

“Oh, I have. I slept from 2:30 to 6:30.”

“What were you doing last night? Watching presidential campaigns?”

“No, … ugh.., yes!!, I mean, the last thing I saw last night was Barack Obama, but I watched Hillary Clinton on Saturday. I watched her Endorsement Speech, in which, I think, she repeated that phrase for about a thousand times in a couple of minutes “

“So let’s help elect Barack Obama our president!”

“No, don’t say that again! It’s so annoying! It doesn’t sound pleasant from your mouth”

“But that’s exactly what she said… Let me show you this video!”

“Four times in three minutes?! You are as good in repeating that as she is “

However, this slogan seemed harmless compared to the repeating of “energy resources”, “global warming”, “segregation”, “women’s rights”, “Troops in Iraq”, “middle class” and “Stronger America”

I didn’t like the speech. It was trite. Clinton just repeated the main shortcomings of the US throughout the years. The only thing that kept me in front of CNN for half an hour was the fact that her wordes were so simple that I could understand everything. That made me remember the challenging SAT readings based on Martin Luther King’s speeches, and their persuasiveness. The weight of his words came from the significance of his causes as well as from his eloquence which I couldn’t catch in Clinton’s final act. I got a bit disappointed of the presidential campaign, but then a friend of mine told me about this:

This speech is different. Here Senator Obama says “I am reminded every day of my life, if not by events, then by my wife, that I’m not a perfect man. I won’t be a perfect president..”, while Hillary Clinton declares “I was proud to be running as a woman, but I was running because I thought I’d be the best president”. She’s repeating the modern society’s concerns and the causes she’d be glad to work for, while Obama’s retelling a real amusing story which shifts the focus on the ordinary individual and makes him believe that large-scale ideas stem from the smaller events. While Clinton is harping on the key points of her political program, Obama is galvanizing with: “Fired up! Ready to go!”.

This juxtaposition made me realize my brain keeps repeating: “Let’s help elect Barack Obama our president!”, only because I’d rather hear more of “Fired up! Ready to go!” in the future.