I thought the convention was fantastic. The Clintons came home and really redeemed themselves in my eyes. There’s nothing like seeing Bill standing in front of his adoring fans, wagging his finger at McCain and telling the country in no uncertain terms why Obama is ready to lead. Hillary laid out an excellent case for why no person who voted for her could in good conscience ever vote for McCain.
Obama’s acceptance speech before 78,000 people was masterful, a symphony as said by David Gergen. It blended some much-needed economic populism with a call to personal responsibility and an appeal to people of all political stripes to come together as one nation to defeat the many problems that assail us. It also did not fail to bang McCain exactly where and how he needed to do so.
But nobody can say it better than some of the most hard-core Republicans on television who were flabbergasted by his speech:
(Love the last quote: “whatever Republican didn’t get picked as VP today may be a lucky Republican.”)
And how about the McCain camp? Speechless:
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