Don't ever stop, keep going!

It was a beautiful address. Chelsea did great, and I love that they can barely remember Bill. I hope he comes through for Obama like a champion Wednesday night, however.

We will know it's going to be a good speech if his opening line is "They asked me to talk tonight about national security, but instead I'm going to honor my hero Hunter S. Thompson and do what he would have done if the Democratic Party had had the courage to invite him to this stage!"

OK, it's late, but there is a revolution to be started, and I think Hillary launched it tonight with her grace and dedication.

It was a good speech. It helped unify her supporters behind the current Dem platform. It also reminded me of why I initially struggled with the decision to support her or Obama. She can be very inspiring and I would indeed love to have a woman president. However, this speech confirmed my suspicion that Hillary is not the woman who will finally break that glass ceiling. While her hawkish stances may appeal to some moderates, her rhetoric turns off any moderate Repubs, or any independents who have ever voted Repub. Not that smart really.

The speech laid bare the rhetoric that makes Repub hate for her such a renewable resource. Its the way she constantly, and rather in-artfully puts them down, all the while making blunt and ineffective assertions of Dem superiority. OK, this is the convention and its probably time to start attacking, but its much smarter to attack Bush than to attack the Repubs, especially when so many Repubs are speaking at the DNC!

Clinton should have trashed Bush for trashing the Repub ideals of small government and non-existant deficits. Instead she made a bunch of meaningless smears that don't even inspire the Dem base that much and did nothing to reach out to moderate Repubs and swing voters. That is not hitting it out of the park.

It was kind of touching though to see Bubba mouthing "I love you" during the big applause she received. Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.

-Sugarfatpie (AKA Alex Pulsipher)

"X-Rays are a hoax."-Lord Kelvin

Although there was no substance (You’re all Victims! Victims! Victims!),
I have to admit Cankles delivered the speech pretty well. Not one “uh, uh, umm, uh, ah, aaahhhh, um…”

Anybody seen the McCain ad with the clip of Hillary saying, “I know Senator McCain has a lifetime of experience he will bring to the White House. And Senator Obama has a speech he gave in 2002”?

LOL!

Clearly it worked on some, but not all.

I'm pretty darn certain that anyone that was already a dedicated Democrat will vote for Obama. Otherwise they weren't a guaranteed vote anyway and have a couple of months to get on the band wagon. Instead of complaining, why not work hard in a positive manner to get them to back Obama. Take some tips from Bill Young, be positive.

Amen. I've read several right-wingers online make the "not one um, uh" comment before or complain about Sen. Obama's habit of it. It makes me laugh that they're going to complain about that particular mote in his eye.

I have been struck by how much more interesting and effective it is to have real people get up and talk about their life experience than it is to have politicians going on and on and on. The woman from Alabama was great, so was the woman from NC who worked at a textile mill for thirty years till the mill closed one day.

CSPAN is great for this type of speaker. The networks always go to some talking head when a non-governor/senator/representative gets up there.

CSPAN kicks ass at convention time! If only because they get the same feed from the DNC that the networks get, but run it without commercials or commentators.

-Sugarfatpie (AKA Alex Pulsipher)

"X-Rays are a hoax."-Lord Kelvin