Michelle's speech was a home run. Emotional, heartfelt, and very authentic. On a night where Ted Kennedy passed the Democratic Party's moral baton, Michelle picked it up and ran with it -- evoking RFK's famous evocation of George Bernard Shaw ("Some men see things as they are...") by talking about the world as it is vs the world as it should be. The cutest, laden with meta-meaning line of the night, however, came from Michelle's brother who revealed that even though, as children, they were only allowed to watch one hour of television a night Michelle had still managed to memorize every episode of that iconic rendering of American family life, The Brady Bunch. Lucky for Team Obama that the show she memorized wasn't Gilligan's Island or Green Acres. Michelle, Michelle, Michelle...
If the Democrats do not spend the remaining days of their convention -- hell, the remaining days of the campaign -- in an all-out assault on the ruinous Bush-McCain policies, they will lose.
Obama's strength is and has been the degree to which he promises a break from the way we've come to understand national politics. That is the opposite of the stage-managed convention.
Michelle Obama's Convention speech should go a long way to reassuring Joe Average, if not Joe Wingnut, that Michelle Obama has figured out how to be a first lady for her time.
What to look for beyond next week? Obama cannot buy enough "experience" between now and November, but he needs to be Jack Kennedy.
I'm not shocked by Americans' ability to think untrue things. But to enough voters that it matters for the outcome of this election, Muslims are as other, if not more so, as blacks.
From the moment Denver Mayor John Hickenlooper learned his city would play host, he became obsessed with the possibilities of doing things better by doing them greener.
In the ad, which is being broadcast in key swing states, an announcer intones, "They're the cutest children in the world - but are they ready to lead?"
Responsibility is not just governmental responsibility, but also individual and community responsibility. Look for good doses of both from Obama.
This year presents an unprecedented opportunity and responsibility for millions of new young voters to make the critical difference in the outcome of the 2008 presidential election.
Mainstream media are now confirming, and going beyond, the initial reports this evening of a possible assassination plot against Barack Obama and the arrest of two men.
As a fellow fighter who stood with Dr. King in the last moments before his death, I feel blessed to know that what will happen the night of Aug. 28, 2008, would make him very proud.
It is time, once and for all, for Democrats to burn the Kerry playbook. It is the same playbook used to guide one losing Democratic campaign after another for decades.
