Watch Barack Obama’s Acceptance Speech in HD
As much as I love the relative understatement and short length of the British election process, I am incredibly drawn to the razzamatazz and sheer feeling of deep consequence that attends the US elections. Last night, my wife and I watched a couple of hours of streaming video from the Democratic Convention website (rock-solid, crystal clear and packaged up nicely with on-demand highlights of other speeches from the convention). Today, the whole thing is available on-demand.
Being married to an American, I now have a direct stake in the future of the US that I never had before. Not only are many of my friends and wife’s friends and family American, but our children will have American citizenship. I deeply hope that Barack Obama is elected. We have talked about moving to the US one day, and with him as president, I do believe I could.
