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Breaking News: Obama is Still Black
The Latest on Air America —
Though far from quieted, the constant drumbeat of “ party disunity ” is being drowned out by the thunderous sound of conventioneers cheering BOTH its top primary candidates. Senator Hillary Clinton spent 23 minutes on Tuesday night talking up and wholeheartedly endorsing Barack Obama, and, with the exception of a few small pockets , delegates and assembled guests inside the Pepsi Center embraced the message with several standing ovations. By the time the Big Dawg finishes barking Wednesday night, the schism that has so dominated the establishment media narrative will have been officially and publicly put to bed. (I am not claiming that some private rifts ...
Will Obama Get A Bounce Out Of This Convention?
DownWithTyranny! —
... , Ted Kennedy, Hillary Clinton and Bill Clinton-- let alone tomorrow's Obama speech. A plurality of bloggers-- me included-- picked 4-6 points. Now I'm thinking it could be even more, although sometimes I get in a darker mood and I agree with ...
President Bill Clinton Addresses the DNC
The Democratic Daily —
I’ll quote Ezra Klein on Bill Clinton’s incredible speech tonight, because Ezra says it all in his opening paragraph:
He left little unsaid. For all the talk of Bill Clinton’s anger, his resentment, his grudges, Clinton took the stage tonight and threw the full weight of his prestige behind Barack Obama. Leveraging that peculiar credibility that comes from being one of four living Americans to have held the presidency, he didn’t simply give Obama his support, but his endorsement. He said that Obama was not only ready, but right. The Obama camp could have asked for nothing more. Clinton could have delivered ...
When You Grow Up...
Daily Kos —
"When will we ever have a black president? When will we have a woman president? You think it will ever happen? Can I be president when I grow up?" For decades, every fourth-grader in the country has asked these questions of their parents and teachers. And now, at long last, we know the answers. We are in the hangover of a historic and cathartic week - one in which Michelle Obama, Hillary Clinton, John Kerry, Joe Biden, and Bill Clinton united the party behind their dynamic nominee well before Barack Obama gave one of the most stunning speeches of his or anyone else's political career. There has never been a time when so much political ...
