Obama DNC Speech Reactons

[Waiting For Everyman]

Huffington Post, August 28,

The article gives reactions from a number of commentators including HRC. Below, the one by Andrew Sullivan:


It was a deeply substantive speech, full of policy detail, full of people other than the candidate, centered overwhelmingly on domestic economic anxiety. It was a liberal speech, more unabashedly, unashamedly liberal than any Democratic acceptance speech since the great era of American liberalism. But it made the case for that liberalism - in the context of the decline of the American dream, and the rise of cynicism and the collapse of cultural unity. His ability to portray that liberalism as a patriotic, unifying, ennobling tradition makes him the most lethal and remarkable Democratic figure since John F Kennedy.


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.

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Oh, and just by the way... Joe Scarborough and Pat Buchanan just came on MSNBC this morning and they're STILL gushing. They just can't help being impressed by Obama, in spite of themselves. (And Mika and Scarborough are both taking credit for being right on their "advice" to Obama yesterday on how he should deliver it.)

Can't wait for the debates.

[liberal N proud]

1. Obama will put McCain away in the debates

[KaryninMiami]

2. Thank you for making my morning!

i am sitting on a plane awaiting takeoff thinking about what an amazing opportunity we have before us and after reading this I am once again,weepy. It's a good weepy though!!!