'Houston, I think we've achieved lift-off here...'

You're looking at the next President of the United States. It's in the bank.

He said, "Ya'll."

I think he cribbed that from Lyndon Johnson.

Could backfire on him... Stereotypical male feeling he has the right to over talk women.

Does anyone think that even if Obama beats Hillary the Obama movement will be so worn down that the strength to fight McCain won't be summoned again?

Wow, big contrast from Hillary.

notice he isnt ATTACKING her in his speech

people seem to like this

NO PARTICULARS - THE 64 PAGES OF ISSUES ON HIS WEBSITE JUST SAY THE WORD HOPE

absolutely no content

I don't like that he interrupted her. Doesn't seem like an Obama thing. He should not have don that. I say this as a big Obama supporter.

The only way I can rationalize it is that he's pissed about all the plagiarism talk. But still, should not cut her off.

We must be humble in our victory--always.

"What we're trying to do here is not easy and it will not happen overnight. It will take more than big rallies. It's going to take more than rousing speeches. It will also require more than policy papers and positions and websites, it is going to require something more...Washington has become a place where good ideas go to die."

WHAT are "we" trying to do? What ideas are you going to save from dieing?

Progressive Blue

McCain talked "War, war, war, military, Islamo-fascists, war, Iraq, We must stay, etc."

Obama highlights ending the war.

I think Obama has faced a much stiffer challenge against a much stronger candidate in Hillary Clinton than he will face versus tired, ol' McCain.

you forgot - MY FRIENDS

WAR, WAR, MY FRIENDS, WAR, ISLAMOMYFRIENDS (OOPS), WAR, MY FRIENDS, MY FRIENDS, WAR

I heard a few minutes of McCain's speech on the way home from work.  I wanted someone on the dais next to him to check his pulse.  He sounds old, tired and boring.  Is he currently alive?

Can we at least put aside our differences for a minute or two, and agree that next to this zombie, either one of our candidates will come off great?   I can't wait to get it on in the general election, I really can't.

His best since Iowa, IMHO.

I think the contrast between the roomful of supporters McCain has and the stadium cheering on Barack is a pretty good indicator of where the energy is in this country.

OR THAT FACT THAT OBAMA GOT 3 TIMES AS MANY VOTES AS MCCAIN

Are you ready for change?

Hope, hope, hope, blah, blah, blah

He's all of a sudden wearing a bracelet from a dead soldier just like a republican counterpart. this man doesn't have original idea in his head.

More slogans...health care system...disease care system...

This is why I don't think McCain's lines of attack will get him or the GOP anywhere.

Obama flies over the rhetoric of attack politics.

We need to move away from a "red meat" mindset... Right now - while McCain is desperately trying to scare the conservatives into lining up behind him, Obama is stealing independents in droves.

SOLUTIONS! SOLUTIONS! SOLUTIONS!

SOLUTIONS HERE, GET YOUR FRESH ROASTED SOLUTIONS!
SOLUTIONS HERE!

More details than you can shake a stick at here:
http://www.barackobama.com/issues/

The details are mind-numbingly boring. But the notion that Obama hasn't provided details is simply false. He's just not stupid enough to think they make a good stump speech.

Change, change, change - WAAA!!! All he talks about is change. whaaaa!!!!

what, women went for obama over clinton in wisconsin?
low income voters did too?
democrats did?
college students?
whites?

but, but, but - all he says is change

Mark Penn remark from Ohio - "Houston, we have a problem"

McCain is going to have a hard time attacking the change Obama calls for - in health care costs, education, energy policy, foreign policy...  The Democrats get to be positive this election while the Republicans attack attack - I don't think it's a good strategy for Clinton nor will it be for McCain.

I am not the perfect vessel?!

Good god...could he use more platitudes?

nice - talking about the money blown in iraq

this will really hit home with people and is a STARK contrast to grandpa

why is it OK with progressives that he does this on domestic issues, but not OK when Hillary Clinton "sounds like George Bush" on foreign policy?

Because Clinton not only sounds like Bush on foreign policy, but acts like Bush on foreign policy, too.

Once Obama starts preaching about getting rid of the Capital Gains tax, give me a call.

"Part of keeping you safe is deploying our troops wisely. The war in Iraq was a mistake."

Never should have been authorized, never should have been waged.

John McCain wants to stay for another 100 years.

This will give the voters a very clear choice.

Todd -- to answer your last question, maybe its b/c Obama's economic ideas are - in essence - still progressive.  However they're framed.  And, by the way, I take exception to the idea that what he just said is right wing rhetorically.  He's talking about government being an agent for empowering individuals.  What's wrong with that?

He will show his wonk side in the debates.

His huffpo posting explains it all.

How many times is he going to say, "If you are ready for change"?

How many different people is he going to quote?

How long is this speech going to go on?

Because when she walks the talk on foreign policy like Bush.

Todd, C'mon.  That's BS.  What he talks about economically isn't a right-wing frame.  It's a critical part of the American dream.

this speech is long as hell.

a POLICY tour de force. He's going over his policies, so the attack that he's all words won't stick anymore.

And you know what? He's nailing this one in doing it.

Q. why is it OK with progressives that he does this on domestic issues, but not OK when Hillary Clinton "sounds like George Bush" on foreign policy?

A. Wars kill, taxes don't.

They are staying with it because there is no news to report. He won and they got nuthin.

The man can hold an audience for over half and hour.

He's got a gift.

Just came in here to look at this after listening to speech.  Have to say amused, because as I heard that line, I saw him trying to bring in republican voters over to liberal domestic agenda.  I heard it as saying I love the free market too, but we gotta do something to fix it..

That was my quick reaction, far different than yours, but I do get your reaction as well (the advantage of not being 100% sold on my candidate)

So pissy. Grrr!

when there are 25,000 people surrounding him?

The reason this speech looks different is he isn't using a teleprompter. You're used to seeing candidates use a teleprompter (which is usually aligned with the camera).

That's why his sight-lines look weird.

I am really lookin forward to the spin on this by the Clinton campaign...and by the mydd site as well.

Excuse me.

Now I agree that it's problematic that he has used right wing talking points in the past, but this is just bullshit.

Saying you believe in the free market and self reliance is not a right wing talking point. If you think that is a right wing frame then you would probably kick out 95% of Democrats out of the party. He is CLEARLY stating that there is a problem with greed capitalism in the next sentense and to claim that there is anything controversial about saying he believes in the free market is absurd. What do you want him to say? I believe in the socialist ideal of command and control?

Puh lease.

Obama gets an entire rally carried on national TV. Not bad.

When will this rambling speech end.  If he wins, we'll be back to the 2 hour endless speeches of Bill Clinton.  Painful.

Maybe now the good people who are administrators here at MYDD can stop bothering with all the polls and analysis of same?   They are pretty much useless in analyzing a populist movement like Obama is leading.

What policy? Most of that speech was hope...change..our time is now...not a perfect vessel...blah, blah

yes, it's horrible for a Democrat to get national airtime to define himself, expand the party, and challenge the GOP on turf we've yielded to them for decades.

just horrible.

Matthews just schooled this State Senator when he asked him if he could name ONE accomplishment for Barack Obama.

Wow. The state senator just got schooled.

toured my mansion with Rezko. Forgot to mention that earlier. Sorry.

NOT fucking Free Trade!

People think Clinton changes her message, well SO Does Obama! Where ever he is, his message changes to try and appease the locals. In  TX it is BIG oil and fat cat CEO's.

Progressive Blue

"... why is he so intent on changing right-wing foreign policy conventional wisdom yet so content to buy into right-wing frames on domestic policy, from taxes to Social Security to healthcare and now government, in what he considers to be a winning strategy; why is it OK with progressives that he does this on domestic issues ... "

A major puzzle. But a few thoughts.

The media and too many left-of-center bloggers peddled the notion that Edwards', Clinton's and Obama's domestic policy/agenda were nearly identical.  That was always nonsense from the start. There were and are very wide differences.  See especially the response to the mortgage crisis from Edwards, Clinton and Obama.  Incredible gap and telling.  See also Edwards', Clinton's and Obama's take on heading off/reversing a possible serious recession.  The gulf is enormous and even more telling.  The list goes on and what appears to some media types as small differences in other areas are, on examination, huge.  Put aside the mandate/no mandate debate in healthcare and notice that Edwards had a government health insurer to compete with private insurers.  In time, no constest, we'd have single-payer.  Clinton also had a government insurer in her plan.  Obama had none and in fact one of his economic advisors, David Cutler, promotes keeping health care industry profits at a very high level. It gets worse when Obama's other economic advisors Austen Goolsbee and Jeffrey Liebman (who promotes Social Security privatization) round out the three man right-of-center free market economics team.  In much of the critical economic policy areas this group is as right-wing as Bush & Co.  In short, the media and many left-of-center bloggers sold the 'very little difference' meme and it stuck. For this reason I think that his supporters manage to ignore much of this even when they hear it in his speeches.

All too many of Obama's supporters project. I've seen this even among intelligent people who should know better.  I know a couple of lawyers, involved in Democratic politics, who stare back in disbelief when you lay out Obama's real positions. I think the rhetoric and the books have caused them to project their own policy beliefs on a man who has completely opposite intentions.  When you point it all out they get angry.  It's as bad as pointing out inconvenient facts to Bush supporters.  They get furious.  People really hate to have their myths shattered.

There is also the fresh face phenomenon, that may count for more today than at any time in the past. He's the new face with a very very thin record and people don't stop to think about what he's really saying.

The foreign policy gimmick is, I believe, just that. Remember that through much of 2007 he wasn't all that eager to pull troops out of Iraq with all dispatch. When he sensed that people honed in on Clinton's vote, he emphasized that and went straightaway to a policy of more rapid withdrawal. Actually Clinton has adopted a rapid withdrawal plan as well and in this one area they may actually be very close.

Going one step further I believe that many of his supporters see Iraq as the ONLY issue in the campaign.  Especially those well-to-do independents, many of the very young and the previously uninvolved who've flocked to his banner. These people don't even bother to listen to domestic matters.

Amazing that as it's gotten down to these two, Hillary Clinton is the liberal. How's that for irony? The other irony is that the truly transformative candidate was always John Edwards. An Edwards win would have meant a federal government turned completely around, a new governing consensus established.

It should be remembered that Hillary Clinton has an big popular vote lead among Democrats.  Even after tonight she still leads in this category by well over 600,000 votes.

After this one is over, party leaders are going to have to sit down and really think through the whole primary process.  This may be one area where both parties can agree.