This will be remembered 100 years from now. Stunning. A fiction writer couldn't have come up with something like this. Not only did it hit every single possible note but it took every single Rethug attack and turned it against McBush. I feel like all that I've felt about the past eight years has been finally shown to be the crap it is. I can hope again. He not only hit it out of the park, he sent it to Pluto.

In my adult life, no one has inspired me with a single speech the way Barack Obama did tonight.

I will do whatever I can to get this man elected.

..the following Osama BinLaden to his cave remark. Even Kristol couldn't say a bad word (initially, I'm sure he'll drink his daily RNC Kool Aid tomorrow and will revert to form)!!

... and yet he was not struck by lightning. How can that be?

The pre-speech sniping from our own side regarding the Greek columns was unnecessarily negative and turned out to be unfounded. Perhaps there's a lesson to be learned there somewhere.

Keith Olbermann has already pointed this out on MSNBC.

According to the AP 'Analysis' of Obama's speech Obama's speech lacked detail, "instead of dwelling on specifics, he laced the crowning speech of his long campaign with the type of rhetorical flourishes that Republicans mock and the attacks on John McCain that Democrats cheer. The country saw a candidate confident in his existing campaign formula: tie McCain tightly to President Bush, and remind voters why they are unhappy with the incumbent."

As Olbermann asked..."Did the AP author watch the same debate we did?" (paraphrased).

For the AP to print this as 'news' is criminal.

The AP article in question can be found here: http://www.salon.com/wires/ap/2008/08/28/D92RMMMO0_cvn_convention_analysis/index.html

In response to the AP article, Olbermann counts "29, by my count, specific policy discussions in Obama's speech."

This guy is a leader. I'm giving some $ and volunteering for him & the Dems.

How can you not be moved by his vision of America. Enough is enough. This is our country, and we're going to take it back from the corrupt and greedy.

the ex-Nixon speech writer and former political candidate had to acknowledge that speech.

The times are too serious, the stakes are too high for this same partisan playbook. So let us agree that patriotism has no party. I love this country, and so do you, and so does John McCain. The men and women who serve in our battlefields may be Democrats and Republicans and independents, but they have fought together and bled together and some died together under the same proud flag. They have not served a Red America or a Blue America — they have served the United States of America.

... once you saw the whole thing, finished, were clearly part of a set that was meant to suggest the Oval Office. I think it worked.

Instead of hitting on every friggin policy issue a president would face, he should have stayed on a more focused message. It was necessary to address things like gun control. If you spend 75% of your time addressing issues framed by your opponents, then you are working on their time and their agenda. I for one would like to see the Democrats throw so many balls in the oppo court that they need to spend forever defending themselves. He also lacked repetition of the message. Every paragraph should have ended with the same attack on the opposition and the value proposition of his candidacy. I also was a little disheartened by the lack of control of the media shots of the candidate. Put all the network cameras on the same platform, so you can look squarely into the camera 80% of the time. Your audience is America, not the left and right of you in the stadium. Also don't allow the network cameras to be looking up at you. We spent half our time looking up his nose (partly because of the camera position and partly because he has a terrible habit of sticking his chin up and looking down his nose at us.) That is not the body posture you want for a candidate that has an image problem of being elitist.

My analysis is harsh. So be it. I called the debates in favor of Bush over Kerry for these similar reasons, and most people assumed that Kerry won his debates. This isn't a great speech, it is only a competent speech (as it was meant to be.) Our standards have lowered since the likes of great orators like Kennedy and King. They all thought they had it in the bag on Bush presidency 1, and Bush presidency 2. The democrats are going to have to and bring a tougher fight. They think they deserve the government because they are "right" and the opposition is "wrong." The opposition doesn't care who is right and wrong, they just want to be in power at the end of the day.

Because it's the Democrats in the Senate who have the most filibusters in the history of this country.

No wait, that's wrong. The Republicans of the 110th Congress have the most filibusters of any 2-year Congressional class in the history of the country. They broke the record in December of 2007, a full year before the end of the 110th.

That's right. The Republicans had more filibusters in one year than any of the previous 109 Congresses had in two years.

But God Almighty should strike down Dick Durbin! Preach on, Brother Elephantman!

The speech was excellent. I was especially impressed by the confidence and command with which he spoke and his willingness to take on McCain in a very direct way.

That report from the AP has to have been written by someone who didn't even see the speech, but wrote the piece based on what they anticipated.

I don't usually feel sorry for McCain but I doubt he gets much sleep tonight.

In politics you want to take the stage last. However in this case the bar has been raised so high that the Republican convention can't help but look pathetic. How can they possibly top this?

The only possible plays I see are:

1. Change the candidate.

2. Cancel the convention.

Hopefully this marks the end of an very destructive phase in American politics.