obama accepts nomination tonight Options

[brooklyneast05]

(CNN) -- Standing on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial on August 28,1963, Martin Luther King Jr. shared his vision for a new America:

"I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: 'We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal,' " he said before a crowd of hundreds of thousands.

King's dream for a land where his children would "not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character" would be repeated, meditated upon and memorized for generations to come.

On the 45th anniversary of King's rousing call, Sen. Barack Obama will accept the Democratic nomination at INVESCO Field in Denver, Colorado. In what represents at least a partial actualization of King's dream, Obama will officially become the first African-American to lead a major party's ticket for president of the United States.

i'm gonna be watching.

[Reidar]

More pretty rhetoric with little substance. Listening to flowery and evasive language is not inspiring to me in the least.

Not that John McCain is really any better.

[brooklyneast05]

personally i think that anyone who says this speech was exactly like his others either A) didn't watch it or B) hasn't watched his others.


the rhetoric was different, the change message was more outlined and less vague, he his all the main points that needed to be hit.

[Reidar]

Between reminiscing about his church, attacking McCain, and offering hypothetical scenarios of the suffering working-class, it was disappointingly stale.

I also have the entire transcript in front of me. There is zero concrete extrapolation on any of his plans.

If he wants to inspire me, then he needs to stop playing it safe with flowery words that don't mean anything, which is the same problem as pretty much every single politician out there.