Notes from the Speech

I like his tie. Its somewhere between purple and pink. Not a conservative red. He's young, he plays it to his advantage. Awesome...

He comes out and claps for what at first looks like his video. It takes me second to realize that in fact is for the audience i think...75,000 people...screaming...cheering

Everyone has made it a point to draw parallels, he is like Lincoln another junior senator from Illinois who rose to be President. He is like JFK, who a great orator, accepted his outdoors, the first celebrity/politician. He is like FDR in his progressiveness. I don't know, I never saw them. But gosh he's something different than we've had in the last 8 years isn't he?

He starts off thanking everyone who came up and spoke, the Clintons, Ted Kennedy, Durbin; the post-primary Democrats, one big tent again in the crisp Colorado night.

He talks about the plight of the common person, some idiot randomly cheers at the wrong the moment and is shouted down by the silence. Then he takes out the hammer and goes after Bush. He reminds us we are a better country than we feel now. He invokes images poor home owners, homeless veterans, New Orleans and says "Enough"

People are moved. He can do no wrong. The guy even invokes Dick Van Patten and that works, the audience cheering "Eight is Enough"

Now the hammer is on McCain, his voting record implying some similarity to the Bush Administration. He's not letting up...he goes back to the "Nation of Whiners" gaff. More imagery...more struggles.

This is tricky for him. He's the optimist a beacon of hope. Him attacking McCain's economic credentials, he simplifies the Laffer curve down to its dim witted truth for those of us who did not take Macro...

He's doing it though...He's reminding us why he's here. How he can move a crowd. Earlier, Dbag Olbermann got into an argument with Brokaw (the nerve of dbag) about whether delivering a speech on so grand a stage would benefit Barack or be a dis-service.

He owns it though. His stage, his house, his world. He's talking about the promise of America. He gets specific...this is the "I will" and the "I propose" and the "I'll eliminate..." and the "I am the motherf*cking man" of it all...This is apparently, in word count, 1/4 of his speech, a rhythmic enumeration of his platform and policies. His jabs end in periods and His policies end in exclamation points. It all draws raucous applause. Before this started, the talking heads debated whether his stage was a bit too regal. In this boxer's crouch, he flips this on its head. Its now a gladiator's arena.

Though he takes his jabs, they are measured, used to create space, draw contrast. His emphasis is still on his theme, the promise of America and the unity that promise creates.

He invokes Roosevelt and Kennedy directing, in a big statement of the night, taking of the mantle of Democratic Presidents who defended this country. I would say people are back on their feet but they have not sat down for a while.

Around the 30 minute mark, we hit a small lull, hitting the old Democratic party line...guns, abortion yadda yadda...I want to hear the energy point again...

He talks about how they will make this big election about small things...how it will get petty...

He is back on the promise, he is now invoking MLK on the Mall in Washington. Hot chicks throughout the audience at Invesco Park break down in tears.

It must be cool to be Barack.

He ends with some scripture, reminding us all to hold firm to hope.

Brooks & Dunn "Only in America" strikes up. On odd choice, I guess "How High" by Method Man and Redman would not be a appropriate. Al Gore had "Acquarius/Let the Sunshine in" by the Fifth Dimension earlier this evening. Does Al Gore have more soul than Barack?

I was won over from the start. Home run...I'll post more if the d**chebag pisses me off again