It's a great speach about great ideals, given by someone with firsthand experience how the dream can work for anyone regardless of where they started out in life.
Whether or not the people at the top of the Republican party are properly following those ideals is the reason we vote, the reason why there are primary elections, the reason why the parties reach down to and are ultimately run by people at the local level. Most people sit around and gripe about what one party or another is doing, but so few bother to pick up the phone, call the local party office, and volunteer their time to help make things right.
Arnold answered that call, and he may be the best herald of the American Dream the republican party has seen in decades. Of all the public figures we see on TV, he is one of the few who can truly say they have lived the entire American Dream from the bottom to the top. He could speak those words every day and I'd never get tired of them because they are the essence of what made America. He didn't preach about giving handouts, he didn't speak about filling outstretched hands with bread or providing circuses for the bored masses, he spoke about how America is about providing opportunities for people to fill their own lives, to fulfill their own dreams.
That's the America written about in the constitution. That's the America my parents, grandparents, and great grandparents grew up in. That's the America served by generations of servicemen and policemen in my family. You can get a bowlful of pity in any country in the world, but here you get the freedom to reach your highest potential. Arnold knows that, most honest Americans know it's true deep in their hearts, and maybe it's a message that will continue to be trumpeted beyond the conventions and this election.
