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[Ya-ta Boy]

And as I tuck that little girl and her little sister into bed at night, I think about how one day, they'll have families of their own. And one day, they � and your sons and daughters � will tell their own children about what we did together in this election. They'll tell them how this time, we listened to our hopes, instead of our fears. How this time, we decided to stop doubting and to start dreaming. How this time, in this great country � where a girl from the South Side of Chicago can go to college and law school, and the son of a single mother from Hawaii can go all the way to the White House � we committed ourselves to building the world as it should be.

I didn't see/hear it, I just read it, but it sounds like a barnburner to me. The next-to-last paragraph (above) is about as perfect as it gets. Kudos to her speech writers.

I suspect the fat cats, stand patters and Republicans will jump on it because of the repetition of 'the world as it should be' since there are those who see no need for change. McCain himself says we don't need change, just 4 more years of Bush's policies.

[matthews_world]

Typical rhetoric to me, Yata.

We all know that politicians are good at conveying concepts at hopes to swinging votes their way but what they don't do literally is to let us know that they know what is going on in each particular situation.

[Gopher]

[Nowhere Man]

Did you just quote Oliver Stone?

[Gopher]

Apparently it is Gopher-groupie time. "It's Gopher-groupie time! It's Gopher-groupie time! Bob Smith and Gophie Poo, Say it's Gopher-groupie time for you...!"

Thank you, Gopher-groupie. Gopher-groupies rule.

[Nowhere Man]

[Ya-ta Boy]

[Gopher]

Sounds as if you have bought into the Democratic Party's speechwriters' poll-driven, clich�, election-year "change" rhetoric, taking it at face-value, even.

[Rteacher]

The content of the speech may be excellent, but she's almost sure to lose style points (based on deep-seated class and racial distinctions) because of her "Southern-black" accent and perceived "uppity" demeanor.

The fact that she's taller (at 5'11") than most white men probably adds to the irrational fear-factor.

[ytuque]

[Big_Bird]

[Ya-ta Boy]

I think the lady hit one out of the ballpark. I'm confident that next week when it's the GOP's turn that Cindy McCain will refrain from rhetoric and bless us with a deeply philosophical speech that ascends the oratorical heights while avoiding partisanship. But then I'm also confident that Tinkerbell will sprinkle me with fairy dust tonight and I'll be able to fly to Neverland under my own power.

Most First Lady Wannabes (there is no known term for women in this position is there?) don't give speeches at the Convention although they do campaign for their husbands. [Let it be said that I prefer the old style of front porch campaigns--they're a lot more decorous on the part of the candidates.] I don't have a memory of any of the previous candidates' wives making convention speeches. Does anyone know which did and didn't?

Rteacher's post was interesting. He mentioned the black factor and alluded to the 5'11" woman factor. (I had no idea she was that tall.) There is no way to know how many it affects, but the men who just don't like strong women will not be thrilled at the prospect of a tall (Hillary is shorter than me) strong woman. It's one more reason to hope Obama gets elected. We might call it the 'squirm factor'.

Too bad the Dems didn't delay their convention by one day--then they could have nominated Obama on McCain's birthday. There's a report around the net somewhere that McCain's response to the 7 houses thing is a review of his war record. He's in danger of prodding Biden into revamping his Giuliani quip about 'a noun, a verb and 9/11' if his responses devolve to that level of irrelevance (when the question is about something else).

[Ya-ta Boy]

I found her speech on RCP. It's even more amazing to watch than to read. At no point does she appear to be reading off a teleprompter. It sounds like she is just speaking. She couldn't be, I know.

Michelle Obama is one sharp cookie. Meryl Streep has nothing on Michelle Obama.

One MAJOR drawback to Obama: Those kids are young and cute. I hate cute. I lived through the cute Kennedy kids. It was not fun. At least the Ford kids were old enough to get in trouble and embarrass their parents.

[Kuros]

I thought the speech was kind of boring. But then again, the fact that she didn't offend people was a kind of accomplishment considering that she had her mouth open in front of an audience for an extended period of time.

But, I don't think the speech was aimed at people like myself. So, I may be missing something here.

[The Bobster]

I just fiinished listening to it, and I agree with something I read earlier in the day (from Roger Simon, I think) that maybe we nominated the wrong Obama. It's a kickass bit of talking out loud, and before we discuss what other people think Michelle said months ago, let's all listen to this.

The New Times has the video, with the text highlighted on the screen as it goes by. Click on this and see if it takes you there.

"All of us driven by the simple belief that the world as it is just won't do ... and that is why I love this country ... this time, we listened to our hopes instead of our fears ... this time we decided to stop doubting and start dreaming ... we committed ourselves to building the world as it should be."

That's the core of liberalism, at its best, at least I always thought so - the recognition that what we see around us can be better and we can make it better. As human beings, that's sort of, I dunno ... our job.