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Obama knocked it out of the park.
- Filed under: Obama
- Date: Aug 28,2008
I have just finished watching Barack Obama's speech in a packed stadium in Denver of over 84,000. All I can say is that we had a perfect week. Ted Kennedy was reminded us what we are fighting for and the history of our party. Michele Obama showed the country that she will make great first lady. She also gave us some insight into Obama's family, which was endearing. Senator Clinton knocked it out of the park Tuesday helping to bring closure to her supporters. She reminded them that it is the issues that unite us. Bill Clinton helped to ease the tension from the primary and reminded us of the success our country had under Democratic leadership. Joe Biden proved himself to be a perfect fit for Vice President. Democrats got a preview of the kind of team they will make. The pressure going into tonight was intense and the expectations were very high.
Obama knocked it out of the park.
First, the visuals of the stage and stadium were amazing. The sound from the crowd during the speeches was so powerful. Obama's speech had so many great lines, it is tough to know where to start. I've got to take some time to process it all. What I know right now is that this was a great week for Democrats and a week that I will remember for a long time. Obama and Biden are ready for the fall and I'm looking forward to supporting them.
Ben: I have a reaction. It isn't the same "this was the best night of my life and in the history of the entire world" as you read above. 4th post down in the comments.
22 Responses for "Obama knocked it out of the park."
The speech was amazing, but still outdone by the visuals.
I even saw FOXNEWS's Brit Hume and Bill Kristol said it was a terrific speech.
…good luck following that tomorrow Tim Pawlenty (side note: i am seriously not sure if that is even his first name).
a sad night for those like Ben that claimed this night had the potential to backfire.
Let me take a page from John McCain and congratulate Obama for achieving what he has.
The speech was well delivered, but I am still not sold that the whole theatrics of it all won't end up backfiring. Obama gives good speeches. Tonight was no exception. I think the text reads better than it came out, but by no means was it a poor performance. If I was a speech teacher I'd give it an A-/B+. I could have written most of the text of it, it was that predictable.
My major argument with the speech is that Obama keeps saying he is a new kind of politician. No he isn't. He has told us over and over and over and over that the "old politics" are wrong and lectured us Republicans to not do it. That is what he has been doing lately, tonight included, as the race has tightened.
We've always faced an uphill battle this election and will continue to do so. I think McCain still has a decent chance to pull this thing out. Obama is going to get a sizable bump in national and state polls (more than I would like), there is no doubt. McCain will cut into next week after his convention and the DNC Beijing Olympic-like festivities are done, but he wont erase all of it - maybe half. I've said all along, we need to be within 5-6 at the time of the debates. If we are, we can and probably will win. I think tonight Team McCain still feels like "yes we can."
Once the details he was forced into giving tonight are started to be looked at more closely, I am not sure they will hold up. McCain has started to get into people's heads that maybe this guy isnt ready to be president. That is obviously the way they are going to try and win, and it is probably the best way, maybe the only way. I am not sure Obama helped himself on that front tonight.
McCain wont be able to give such a performance next Thursday and I dont think he will try. What he can do in the remaining two months, starting next week, is piece by piece take Obama down. That is doable. McCain can continue to build his support, and as undecideds and weak Obama supporters take another look at him this fall, more than not will see him as the better choice.
Disagree if you wish. I've been wrong before, and I have been right before.
*Has Joe Biden ever been on Amtrak? They make it seem like he rides his bike home every night on a flat tire he cant afford to fix thanks to the Bush economy.
Before the VP pick is announced, since I will be probably still asleep if it is leaked before the announcement:
If it is Tim Pawlenty, I will be mildly disapointed. Not crazy like "I am not voting for John McCain" crazy, but will feel like a chance was missed. Not sure what he adds. I have argued, and will continue to argue, that no matter the pick McCain missed a chance to do this earlier and get out in front. Pawlenty adds no polling bounce. Maybe even a negative. Nothing wrong with him, I will support him, just dont think he is the best pick. Or a top pick.
I understand the logic - do no harm. But this isnt a normal year for the GOP. And I also dont buy the "Biden will eat him alive in a debate" argument. Biden will look like an arrogant windbag.
I also said before on this board it would not be Palin. I am not so sure now. Rumblings are out there.
C'mon it was choreagraphed like the Nuremburg rallies. You better hope he gets a big bounce because he will never look or sound as good as he did last night, and now it's done. And how many people actually watched? Sure he looked good, but remember what happened when he did a side by side with McCain? McCain won.
Obama can say all of that crap when he doesn't have to defend it to an adoring crowd. But he gave the mccains a massive amount of flipflops already.
Obama's b.s. on the surge, remember the katie couric interview? It'sd funny seeing him try to claim credit for winning in Iraq.
Did anyone see that idiot in the audience crying? How disappointed will she be when Obama is found planking an intern like all the other politicians?
I saw a candidate who provides qualifiers but openly mocks personal ownership and self-reliance. A candidate who wants to seize profits from one industry and prop up an inept auto industry with handouts that will control the products that industry produces. A candidate who'd like to stop private investors from leaving their descendants anything more than a pittance when they pass on. And a candidate who thinks mandatory volunteerism isn't an oxymoron.
If I were an oil exec I'd be checking out Swiss banks and corporate office space in Monterrey. If I were an auto exec I'd be looking for work in S. Korea and Japan because I wouldn't want to produce government-mandated junk. And if I were a member of Congress I'd be brushing up on my parliamentary obstructionist techniques.
Oh yeah. Those columns with the video screen is as creepy as Obama's neo-socialist realism posters.
Ben wrote:
"My major argument with the speech is that Obama keeps saying he is a new kind of politician. No he isn't."
Ben, you could not be more wrong. Obama criticizes a man's policies without denigrating his character. McCain, like Bush and every other major Republican politician, is incapable of doing this, suggesting that Barack and Michelle somehow love their country less than the rest of us — with "the rest of us" clearly referring to, you know, white people — and that Obama is no more than an airheaded celebrity like Paris Hilton.
There is nothing wrong with stating that your opponent's ideas and plans are wrong for America. There is everything wrong with saying that your opponent must be some kind of America-hating weirdo for not agreeing with your policies. Obama does the former, McCain does the latter.
At this point, I'm looking forward to a couple years down the road, when President Obama is doing a bang-up job of cleaning up the mess Dubya has left behind, to see what conservatives like you are sahying then. It'll be fun.
What was new about last night? Seriously, this is the same line of crap we have been hearing for 30 years.
And if you want to compare yourself with Roosevelt - fine with me. The programs he started in the great depression were never meant to carry on beyond the 40's.
A no ownership society? What the hell is that? They don't have the boots to pull themselves up? Were all in it together?
I hate cliches but that is about as overtly socialistic as you can get. No we aren't all in this together.
The world needs ditchdiggers too. And not at $20 an hour either. Cut capital gains for those that make less than 250,000. He should know that only qualifies to 2% of the American population. How can Americans believe this stuff?
larry saw what he wanted to see..
"I saw a candidate who provides qualifiers but openly mocks personal ownership and self-reliance. A candidate who wants to seize profits from one industry and prop up an inept auto industry with handouts that will control the products that industry produces. A candidate who'd like to stop private investors from leaving their descendants anything more than a pittance when they pass on. And a candidate who thinks mandatory volunteerism isn't an oxymoron."
Yeah, calling on parents to shut off the gadgets and read to their children is mocking self-reliance….sure. Obama mocked the cynical slogan of the GOP's Ownership Society as leaving us "on our own". What a bitchslap to the GOP and McCain.
Energy is a national security emergency. The nation must act now to avert a tragedy…but larry still wants to see the tired old failure of "the free market" in this industry….the same free market that has led us to the threshold of crisis.
larry shills for the top 5% again with his "private investors" diversion….while ignoring the needs of the 95%.
Not "mandatory volunteerism" larry…..come on, you can listen better than that, volunteerism….incentivized volunteerism, you know, like bonuses for re-upping in the military.
And on a personal note, larry….the sour taste will go away in a few days….and you can replace it with that thin and pale sugar water offered up next week in Minnesota.
Shame he lied about McCain's record and still didn't give any specifics about what would happen in an Obama presidency. This was more of the same old same old, and if he doesn't come up with some specifics soon, he'll be just another footnote like Dukakis, Kerry and Mondale.
Breaking news from Yahoo.com - Palin FTW.
A good speech no doubt. Let's hope ideas and platforms provide real answers–so far they haven't. Will REpublicans do any better?
McCain understand he is in trouble, and in an act of desperation, chose Palin….to try to woo those non-existent, yet terribly upset…Hillary voters.
Obama landslide.
Uber-conservative neo-nut, Jonah Goldberg, on Palin….
"Downside: She may not be ready for primetime. The heartbeat-from-the-presidency issue is a real one."
Oh, my.
Conservative reformer Sarah Palin, congratulations.
Sarah Palin is a great pick for the Vice Presidency. The Republican party will be the party that brought down slavery, and now will be the party that first elected a woman as Vice President. (And who knows…she may be the first female president as well!!!)
Brought down slavery and then morphed into an intolerant-of-blacks, 'southern strategy', party in the second half of the 20th century.
That's regression.
Wishful thinking aside, McCain and Palin both think a woman is not capable of making her own reproductive choices. McCain has an extremely poor record on women's issues.
Not much to commend.
to bad Kerry made the same speech 4 years ago and Gore 8 years ago. All unrealistic promises designed to get the candidate to further their agenda on the backs of the poor and middle class. That is sad. Barrack is a good man with bad trainers.
Also the comment of Reps beingintolerant to blacks is a blatant LIE!
If the Reps went left, then the dems are leading their party to socialism and communism. The Dems are the ones that are creating an air of hopelessness so that the blacks will vote for them. They do this to assure their votes to get power and further their own agenda. They throw them a few new social programs to keep them quiet and to keep them victims and to keep them poor and reliable on the govt. Then at the next election it's a few more bones and they keep thier votes. We need true change and that means real hope and reform for ALL AMERICANS. Don't believe what I'm saying Ask Nancy Pelosi who is not letting the Rep drill because she is heavily invested in a company that is going to build natural gas auto refilling stations or algore who is pulling the biggest scam of all time with global warming. WHo cares that the inner city people cant afford gas at least we'll have clean air. What a joke This needs to be investigated. All that and they blame Bush for their plight in life. The man that over the past 8 years that has passed more education legislation since Reagan. Remember the other black savior Bill Clinton that stole a great deal of programs from the poor and inner city people. He was a savior though, just ask him. Isnt' it about time we get some real truth. I hope Palin does what she was picked to do and start to clean up Washington. Both parties.
One things for sure, Reverend. McCain thinks a woman can be capable of holding down the v.p. slot. Indications are Obama doesn't.
McCain thinks a lot of things….most have proved to be based on faulty judgment.
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