Obama Dnc Speech

In Barack Obama's DNC speech was a beautiful idea, and a quintessentially American one. What are we -- as a country -- if not the sum total of our strange and wonderful families?

Palin's appointment is just transparent chess-playing politics. And in the long-term I don't think it's going to work.

The stalwart Clintonite says he saw something in Barack Obama's Denver speech: No one in recent history had attempted this kind of a political conve...

On previous birthdays I had used my extra airline miles to fly to London, Prague, or Berlin, but this year money is tight and the dollar is weak. Then it hits me: the DNC drumbeat is pounding away with the answer.

Last night was a reminder of just how much has changed in the past eight years. Obama himself devoted more time to the environment in one speech than the entire 2000 or 2004 campaigns saw.

Whether Obama, like Reagan, will win a clear mandate from anxious voters remains to be seen. But this much is apparent: Once again, a clearly defined set of beliefs has found a Great Communicator.

Obama's strategy this past month is a variant of the "rope-a-dope" strategy in boxing, where you let the opponent throw his best punches, exhaust himself on the offensive, and then unleash a barrage of your own.

Obama gave a huge metaphorical hug to American women in general and moms in particular. I'll admit I actually teared up when he said that the day she died was the worst of his life.

Everything was here -- proverbial red meat, gracefully grilled, the heartfelt nods to Hillary Clinton, Bill Clinton, Joe Biden, and the anniversary of Martin Luther King's earth-moving "I Have a Dream" address.

"But as long as we keep lavishly outfitting a military of a size we don't need, social progress will remain a dream. Other industrialized countries have made the choice. Why can't we?"

Tonight, Barack Obama encapsulated, embodied, and articulated the mood of millions of Americans who clearly see that the last eight years have been a betrayal of America.

His fluid, tough, and forcefully delivered speech indicates that he will be a formidable and potentially devastating opponent in the fall presidential debates. Anyone who can't see that just doesn't get it.

"Eight is enough," says Obama of Republican rule. Eight years that have led the country in the wrong direction, according to the nominee. The crowd of 75,000 is in a trance in this stadium.

He must go way beyond the abstract and rhetoric and bring himself firmly back down to earth and put his policies right out in front. This speech must be particularly substantive.

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