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The Message That the Party Wanted to Hear

 

Published 8/29/2008 by Dan Balz at Wash Post Elections

DENVER, Aug. 28 -- Barack Obama's speech accepting the Democratic presidential nomination Thursday night was what many nervous Democrats were hoping for: a forceful challenge to John McCain and the Republicans, and a restatement of the message to change Washington and the nation that propelled him... (link)

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