Obama was eloquent enough for all of us tonight, so I'll just say this:

McSame sucks!

about the "won't even follow Bin Laden to the cave he lives in" line.  You can tell that one stung McCain pretty badly.  That was the best line of the speech for me, taking on McCain's greatest strength and kneecapping him.

I'm so proud to be a Democrat, right now.

That speech defied all my expectations and was near perfect.

10:46.

I sat down at 10:00 and watched for 46 minutes before I even thought to check how long the speech had been going. It was long, but it felt too short and never let me turn away (until one applause break made me realize that there was a lot of substance in this speech).

So well delivered. So eloquent. So...

How screwed are the Republicans now? Do they want to move their VP announcement a few days later so that the afterglow of Obama's speech doesn't outshine McCain's next appearance?

I'm totally fired-up to see what the bounce will be from Gallup tomorrow and Saturday...probably like a freakin' Superball!

That was yelled from the mountaintop!  He's thrown down the gauntlet, no question.

Cheers Bob!

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It about 0030 Friday and I am listening to President Pre-Elect Obama speech for the second time.  He gave us straight talk from the heart.  In 1968, some folk believed that Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was not got for our county.  However, without Dr. King's leadership, our civil liberties and fundamental rights would not exist in our country as we know it.  Just as with Dr. King, some folk will not support (vote) Barack Obama.  In retrospect, just as the results of Dr. King's work continues to resonate throughout our country well after 40 years, Obama's leadership in The Whitehouse will produce similar results.  His legacy will thrive well after his presidency.
However, I do have major concerns, since many people within my culture have been "flip-boned" by African-American leaders such as US Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas.  There are some aspects of life in America that is going unaddressed:
1.    Our justice system, especially family court, is broken;
2.    Lack of government common-sense and oversight breeds corruption at all levels of government;
3.    US Oil intake and distribution, as well as gasoline refinement, should be solely operated by the government and capitalism / privatization totally removed from the equation;
4.    Overt employment disparities are at shameful, immoral, and disgusting levels;
Those are just a few things that we did not hear in his speech, but overall President Pre-Elect Obama was right on point.
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I've misse you around "here" bob.

I'm glad this speech moved so many people.

I'm watching the replay on MSNBC and reading the transcript you provided. It's incredible how much he packed into one speech.

Epic.

Epic.

Epic.

For any nerds like myself who love to see word clouds, here's one I just rendered of Obama's speech.  I'm still amazed at how fantastic our convention turned out.

nice to see you here...

We're going to see a nice bounce and it's been a spectacular convention. The GOP convention is next week and they're going to pull every dirty, slimy trick in the book. You cannot underestimate the power of those tactics and they're going to get the last word.

The themes: POW, Senator Surge, and Obama is inexperienced and they'll lie about his tax proposals.

Obama's speech was excellent on the substance, the delivery, the emotion, and the connection with ordinary Americans.  As political theater, however, it's something that has never been seen before.

Howard Fineman was saying that the GOP will have a low-key convention, especiallly since it will coincide with a major hurricane hitting the U.S.  In terms of theater, I'm reminded of the California recall election.  Jon Stewart did a really funny piece where he showed Arnold with his booming voice, Twisted Sister playing their anthem, a car being blown up, etc.  Then he showed a Gray Davis rally with polite applause.  Steward said, "Gray Davis' confetti machine must have been in the shop."  That piece made it painfully clear that Gray Davis was totally screwed.  The imagery said "only losers vote for Davis".  The issues didn't even matter anymore.  

We happen to have the issues on our side, but it almost doesn't matter.  You have an eloquent young speaker with a compelling life story giving an amazing speech in front of 80,000 people.  On the other hand, you have... John McCain.  I'm really, really glad I'm not a Republican right now.

The only commentary worthy of the speech is Pat Buchanan's.

Wow! Does not explain what I feel tonight as a 51 yr old Gay Man who has seen and lost so many in my life and who feels like an oddity in my own community because theres not many gay men my age thats alive. And came to know what it felt like in 1993 during the Gay March on washington to be able say the word gay and no it was ok and then in 2000 to be one of the hatred tools Repuglians used to steal that election now do have hope once again and know there is change we can beleive in. I wasn't sure i would live to see this day so Now I can Go out in the morning and put my American Flag back up and Be Proud Thank you Senator Obama for Giving me Hope and Pride to Be a Proud Gay American Again!

Stunning speech. Loved the 'own your failure' line.

What I liked was the fact that Obama also attacked the very core of the failed ideology that is conservatism.