Shame on McCain! John McCain, do you admit your craven pandering? Let your personal shame take the wind from out your gut. May you choke on your baloney.

And, you, Barack, God bless you and inspire you, and give you courage to speak truth, and give us peace!

After listening to Senator Obama's speech, I'm very much looking forward to the back and forth between him and Senator McCain. I have a feeling that we're about to witness Obama serve notice that he'll put up with absolutely no B.S. from McCain or the Republicans.

that was the best speech he could have given for this moment. His gracious acknowledgment of Hillary's and McCain's accomplishments shows his class and lack of the bitter partisanship that we need to break away from.

For anyone still not ready to support him after that speech, I don't know what else to say to you in order to get you to change your mind.

Go Obama!

Yes WE Can. A united Democratic Party. New independents. Republicans who realize the United States of America can do better with comptetent leadership and shared values. All of us. Let's get started.

But it is here! Great speech, great candidate. Let's take back our country! Obama will win. :)

Congratulations to all Obama supporters and Clinton supporters--it's been a long, fierce battle, and it was unbelievably close. Everyone can be proud of how far we have come. And I know we won't blow this. McCain will go down, as he should be, with the politics of destruction and fear going down with him.

Obama's speech was as eloquent, powerful, and uplifting as Clinton's was graceless, classless, and disconnected from reality.

I mean, she actually solicited donations! You know, in addition to declaring victory in a race that she lost.

After hearing Obama, Clinton, and McCain tonight, I am more certain than ever that Democrats chose the right candidate tonight.

McCain is dull and uninspired, pushing nothing but hoary platitudes and fatigued right-wing talking points. Brang 'em on, Johnny Mac.

Obama '08. Yes, we can.

Champagne all around.

And that includes Clinton supporters as well, perhaps especially.

My heart goes out to you.

Truly.

"Almost certain to be...???"

Almost??

What a bizarre phrasing, Salon.

All of us.

Indeed.

Hear, hear.

May God or whatever powers there might be bless and watch over Barack Obama.

To all Democrats it's time to work together to win in November.

To every right thinking person in America who is able to vote it is time to put our differences aside and get this man elected in '08.

Great speech but anytime Obama shows graciousness and generosity towards HRC, the usual high volume suspects on Salon accuse him of being arrogant. Of course in the seconds it took to finish this note, several may have chimed in.

Wow- that was a damn fine speech!

Cheers all!

This is a historic occasion and I am so proud to be an American. So much passion on all sides, so many volunteers and supporters that made this primary process so exciting, sometimes so frustrating and mostly heartwarming. So many groups coalesced, so many myths were busted and so much has been accomplished to energize the Democratic Party.

A new day is dawning which will challenge all of us to be active in the governing of our country, not by lobbyists, not by corporations, not by Wall Street, not by dynastic politicians, but by the people of the United States.

We can all make this happen. We can all come together to make our politicians and our media more accountable, we can all root forcefully for the separation of church and state and above all we must make this country care for all our citizens, not just the middle and upper class but also those Americans who fall through the cracks.

Let's make this happen.

And I think the better candidate didn't win. There, that's done. Moving on...

Now I can send out the email I have prepared (I saw which way the wind was blowing) to my family:

Subject: preemptive "no thanks"

Hi family,

Obama was not my first choice, but Obama it is. So, let me tell you that I am NOT interested in receiving forwards on any of the following subjects:

--Obama secretly hates white people (he does not)

--Obama is a secret Muslim (he is not)

--Obama secretly hates Jews (he does not)

--Obama is against Israel (he is not)

--Anything about Michelle Obama (who is not running for president)

--Anything about Rev. Wright (who is not running for president; also, I don't care)

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God, this is going to get so ugly. I'm also pretty sure that some group of Republicans is going to manufacture or fail to stop a terrorist attack.

But let's see what happens next.

If he wants to talk about "demonization" in American politics, he should start cleaning house at Salon, Firedoglake and Kos, where demonizations of the President and the Vice President are now the common parlance.

Is there a single policy that Obama is now proposing that is somehow remarkable for its cross-party appeal? None that I know of. All the talk about "unity" and "nonpartisanship"? What are the specifics? How would an Obama presidency differ, policy-wise, from a Chuck Schumer or Dick Durbin presidency?

I don't hate Obama for what he is. I hate Obama on purely policy grounds.

...this is a great and propitious day, a day that will ring down through history with a chime that will never die!

Twenty years ago I wept as Jesse Jackson showed who the Democratic Party could have had as a nominee when he electrified the convention with his speech "They Work Hard Every Day." I despaired of any black man or woman - or any woman of any color - coming even close to the nomination of their party let alone the Presidency. Tonight my tears are dry.

At long last, let freedom ring!

McCain seems to be interested in it.

http://www.nysun.com/national/mccain-plan-is-for-energy-independence/53025/

Seems like not being a complete and utter incompetent would have a certain measure of cross-party appeal. Guess it all depends on what appeals to you. If you want public policies that have shown themselves to be utter failures on every level, I guess you can continue to run with that. Doesn't make much sense to me, but to each his own.