The government should do that which we cannot do ourselves. So reasoned Obama tonight, amid throngs of tearful supporters, battle music, and a classical stage that would put even Zeus to shame. Yet Obama, unsurprisingly, misses the point. The United States is a government by the people, for the people. We are the government, we set our own policies. How can we do something we cannot do ourselves? Perhaps Obama truly means what he says; that we are no more our own government. Or perhaps this is the change that he's promised.

I could attack logic errors all night long and, while perhaps technically convincing, it really doesn't match the emotion Obama commands. As a mere mortal, I could never hope to destine myself to such eloquent heights, to think with the supernatural clarity that belongs only to him. But I will try, foolishly of course, to make one more simple point.

45 years ago today, Martin Luther King shared a dream with the nation, immensely profound and vastly influential. Tonight, Barack Obama had the same opportunity -- to share with the nation his unique yet universally appealing vision for the future. Instead, Obama saw fit to focus on petty politics; he focused on how McCain and Bush deceived the American Promise through failed and tired policy. With all that he's been given, all the attention, all the passes, how could he throw away a perfect media opportunity? Could it be that he is not what we are told he is? Could he be not just a mortal, but a strategically ignorant one?