Heh.

What a surprise... no one seems all that interested in discussing Greek architecture anymore!

I'm curious to hear Jerome's opinion.

to have supported Barack Obama from the beginning of this process.

Tonight the dream we laid out in the primary begins to come true. I have no doubt that we just say the next President give the first of what will be many great speeches.

Well, I'm on record for a long time as far as what I wanted to hear from Obama.  So I can say it - this is exactly what I wanted to hear, what I believe he needed to say.  Hope everyone else liked it as much as I did!

We'll be up at least ten points on Saturday's gallup tracking poll and I may be understating it as well.  We'll be up eight in Rasmussen.

What a night for the Democratic party!

I feel like, for the first time that I can remember, no longer can the Republicans claim THEY are the party of patriotism, of country, of family values.

Obama, Michelle and his kids, Biden and his wife....

I STILL remember my moms face the night Jack Kennedy won.

As an Irish Catholic, who thought the sun rose and fell on FDR, I know now why she told me:

Be a democrat. It's the party you were born into, and you stay with it.

I wish I could have been there.

I wish I had kids just so I could share this with them.

I know some here still cringe at hearing the name Sullivan, (and yes, he has been & continues to be cruelly unfair to Hillary - even he somewhat admits it).  Still, it's worth risking the flak to quote this graf from his reaction:

What he didn't do was give an airy, abstract, dreamy confection of rhetoric. The McCain campaign set Obama up as a celebrity airhead, a Paris Hilton of wealth and elitism. And he let them portray him that way, and let them over-reach, and let them punch him again and again ... and then he turned around and destroyed them. If the Rove Republicans thought they were playing with a patsy, they just got a reality check.

This was my thinking.  Okay, my hope all along.  The GOP now have to retool their entire attack machine in mid-play.  

Even those assholes on CNN are waxing poetic. Blitzer looks miffed.

Salter is unquestionably one of the best speechwriters on their side, but he's up against one of the best we've ever seen; he'll be ripping up draft after draft after watching Obama's symphony tonight.

That's twice now the Obama campaign has pulled a big, successful head-fake on McCain's team and the punditry.  First the disunity narrative got trampled among the confetti on the convention floor, Hillary leading the acclimation and Bill following with his own strong hand firmly bending the arc of history toward Obama.  

Then they planted a Dionysian Greek edifice at their 'excessive' venue, site of his anticipated demagoguery, just to suck them in and delivered a canvass-thumping political manifesto which harnessed but was not distracted by the significance of the MLK anniversary.  The 'historic' nature of this moment has been left for the media to promote while they all digest the blows landed on the McCain campaign tonight.  They're not sure what just happened but they're pretty unanimous it was something.

I will be proud to tell my children (when they exist) about this moment.

Fucking PAT BUCHANAN CALLED IT A GREAT SPEECH!  PAT BUCHANAN PRAISED IT.  He Gushed. Unbelieveable.

I gotta' say, folks, I've been blogging here pretty much continuously since February 2007 in unwavering support of Senator Barack Obama and have collaborated and duelled with many in these many months, with great pleasure and not a little determination.  And I have never doubted that the Obama we saw tonight was anything but just the tip of the iceberg.  I have never doubted it for a moment.  And I sense the same in others.  Maybe it's 'hope.'

A toast to all loyal Obama supporters! (your favourite drink, Kool-Aid if you must)  Collectively, you are the community I have always wanted to be part of, not constrained by geography but united in perception and ideal.

'Empty suit' or not he sure is one hell of a politician.  That's gotta' count for something.

I was at MSG in 1992 when Clinton accepted the nomination and this speech blew that one away which is saying a lot.

Based on the lame statement from the McCain campaign, the Repubs must scared to death. Obama not only gives a good speech, he hits back hard too.  

Plus, tomorrow the news media will contrast this speech at a packed Invesco Field to the introduction of Tim Pawlenty for VP in a half empty auditorium campaign in Dayton.  

I like our chances.

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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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