Embodying hope.

Here comes the presidential hopeful, heading towards centre stage at Mile High Stadium, to stand before tens of thousands of people eager to hear him speak. What a rush it must be. He embodies the hopes of all those people. That's just wild.

Some real-time thoughts on the things he's saying.
Bring jobs to America: Totally possible because although labour is not cheap, the people of America have a great deal of ingenuity, which they can leverage against the Europeans and Chinese, and everybody else.
Reduce dependence on oil from the Middle East: Inevitable, because the world economy will soon run on fuel other than oil, anyway.
Emphasize education: My favourite public policy topic of all. As an interesting twist, he's proposing education in exchange for community service (as opposed to education in exchange for military service? How novel).
Health care: This topic puzzles me a great deal. It's not a real issue, it's a chimera. There's no way a government can force health care institutions to provide health care to all citizens -- quality health care, that is. So, no comment. I suppose health should be taught in schools, in detail. Kids from Year 1 could be taught microbiology and bio-chemistry, so by the time we reach a reproductive age, we know how the machine known as the human body works. Doctors should not monopolize that knowledge. Giving that knowledge to people more widely is really the only way to "provide" health care to people.
Equal job rights for men and women: Well, I think people should not have to work at all, so... I'm indifferent towards this issue.
"Programmes alone can't replace parents": I guess this is the missing link in so-called broken communities, which are left out of the mainstream economy because the children growing up there are ill-prepared to play a productive part. So yes.
The United States of America: not a red America, or a blue America, but a United States of America. That's always been the issue with him (think: A More Perfect Union). I've always been puzzled by the 50/50 divide in this country. Everything is black or white. You're either for or against abortion, for or against big business, and so on. It's truly bizarre. To me it's a no-brainer that any would-be leader in any situation should try correct black-or-white thinking among the people she or he is intending to lead, so it's good that he's moving in that direction.
Sense of common purpose: Here, he's reminding people to get to the heart of the issue, whatever the issue may be. We may not agree on abortion, but surely we agree on the need to reduce unwanted pregnancies. We may not all agree on homosexuality, but don't gays/lesbians deserve to visit someone they love at the hospital? (There was a third point, on immigration, but it didn't have the same punch.)
This election is not about me, it's about you: This is another "core issue" that he's harped on for so long now. This idea segues nicely into the next thought, which is, "The change doesn't come from Washington, it comes to Washington."
"The promise of America is our greatest inheritance": It's too bad Malaysia has no such inheritance -- that certain je ne sais quois, that intangible something.
There's work to be done: farms to save, children to educate. In other words, the Democratic Party still has a purpose, and he's urging Democrats not to forget that.

Overall, I thought it was a typical political speech. Nothing so moving as "A More Perfect Union," and certainly not as moving as MLK's "I Have a Dream," on which the whole Mile High Stadium concept was based, apparently. But that's the risk you take in holding a meeting in a huge stadium. Things become impersonal.

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p.s. But that's not to take away from the fact that I think this occasion is momentous, and that he's a genius in many ways. Good luck America.