I can't believe that I missed probably the greatest nomination speech in history...watching it on rerun now, and MSNBC is certainly showing it's partisan colors now...

I love it.

And no one is more surprised than I am!

What an amazing speech, and what a great convention. I haven't been this excited since Bill won. As a Hillary supporter, I have finally found my reason to support Barak Obama whole-heartedly, and I have backed that up by making a donation this evening.

My thanks to Hill and Bill for being so classy and so willing to put our country first. I respect them both enormously. All around, it's a win, win, win -- and that's what we need to do in November.

Yippee!

(Any hold outs out there need to take the plunge. Come on it, the water is red, white and blue.)

Wow. I saw and I still don't believe it. I watched it again and marveled at the complex, thoughtful delivery. Masterful. Decisive. Poignant. Very, Very Real.

Beautifully written and delivered. Barack hit it out of the park and into orbit!!

It's our job now to go out and help him deliver on the promise!!

Apart from Baracks speech itself, I loved the visuals from Mile High. A sea of diversity brought together in one place for one purpose. Just incredibly powerful and uplifting.

Lets go get 'em!

What a beautiful, beautiful speech! In recent memory, only Gov. Cuomo's 1984 Democatic National Convention speech can come even close, IMHO.

Let's just hope that our man is as full-throated and intense when he debates McCain. I dread the thought of his looking tentative, in contrast to an apparent wise, grandfatherly McCain.

As Obama told the stage Thursday night, my wife reminded me that four years ago after Obama's impressive keynote address at the Democratic convention I told her, "We will have to watch this guy carefully. He may be our nominee in 8 or 12 years."

He won the nomination earlier than I thought but I know he's ready. I will be happy to vote for the first time for a candidate younger than me. It is possible now that no one born in the 1950s may ever be president. I don't know if that's good or bad.

When Obama told the crowd that Bush's "ownership society" meant "you're on your own," I punched the air because that's what I told people at the time.

I supported Hillary because I thought it was her turn and because she's done a good job as senator here in New York, but Obama is the man now. Imagine, a president who thinks before he speaks, is intelligent, speaks in complete sentences and looks like he not only knows how to pronounce the words but knows what they mean. What a concept.

The forces of darkness will raise his youth and his color to stop him. I hope Americans are finally smart enough to realize that voting your fears gets you an incompetent and a war criminal for president. Voting your hopes may get you the best president of the 21st century.

Obama did unequivocally set a 10-year goal to "finally end our dependence on oil from the Middle East." But compared to Al Gore's chilling warning about global warming in his Thursday night speech before network coverage began, Obama's proposals seem pallid in comparison.

Huh? I'm pretty sure that is exactly Gore's plan, and one of the reasons why Gore got the coveted Thursday night speech slot.

Simply stunning. One for the history books.

Easy now, Mr. Shapiro. Obama may have rhetorically defined himself, but he hasn't exactly Proven anything, other than he can make a thoughtful choice for running mate, yet!

McCain can talk about two things with confidence: cutting government pork and his time in the military. After that, he's out of ideas. Campaign Finance Reform seemed to evolve out of his role in the Keating Five.

Everyone knows where he stands on abortion and guns, but are they aware of other positions on issues like net neutrality, his record on renewable energy, health care, and education, for example? I don't know if these issues will be discussed in the debates, so we may want to post them here in the letters section of Salon so they don't get overlooked.

The speech Obama gave today was a work of art. Barack Obama is a master of his craft, his political oration has reached a level of near-perfection. It was his Michelangelo speech. His words, his voice, his tempo, his setting, his music, and his message: all blended with precision, synthesizing into a political message that was as devasating to his opponents as it was inspiring to his audience. To those of us who devour political theatre daily, it was

I am trying not to fawn too much. I have been in the tank for Obama for years, hoping against hope that this moment would come, that finally a politician who moved me, whose vision of the future excited me, would have a real shot at implementing those changes. I am excited, I am vindicated, and I am not apologetic.

There can be no denying that what he produced at Mile High Stadium created a new political standard that will be emulated for years to come.

Now the real battle begins.

Obama declared that this election would be about the voters, not about him.

Contrary to popular opinion I truly believe Obama's foreign policy credentials are not being measured against McCain. This is too easy to consider.

I watch with interest from afar how Condi Rice will be used by the Republicans against the Obama juggernaut.

I will never forget the pride and happiness I felt this evening. This generation has found its political hero, a lightening bolt of charisma and intellegence named Obama. Who is not afraid of the truth and not afraid to lead by example. Now lets go kick some ass.

Thinking back over the past 7 1/2 years you come to the realization the country, no the entire world, is like a desert thirsting for what we've come to expect the leader of the free world to look and sound like. The nightmare Bush/Cheney/Rove cabal is a prime example of what can be "sold" to the American people. That's why Obama can fill 80,000 seat arenas easily. People want to see hope. People want to feel hope. People want something that has not come from a politician in a very very long time. That's why Obama will win the presidency in November. Damn he reminds me of J.F.K. What a speech tonite something he wrote himself.