Friday, 29th August 2008
Denver, Colorado
Presidential Candidate Barack Obama launched an assault on Republican presidential rival John McCain on Thursday with a promise to reverse the economic failures of the past eight years and restore America's reputation in the world.
Obama, the first black presidential nominee of a major U.S. party, linked McCain directly to President George W. Bush and said their failed Republican policies were responsible for a faltering U.S. economy and a decline in U.S. global standing.
"We are here because we love this country too much to let the next four years look just like the last eight," Obama told a flag-waving crowd of about 75,000 supporters in Denver's open-air football stadium as he accepted the nomination on the last night of the Democratic convention.
"On November 4th, we must stand up and say: 'Eight is enough,'" Obama said. This has been the most aggressive speech of the 2008 DNC week here in Denver. And the most substantive given by Presidential Candidate Barack Obama hitherto. This historic speech was not a thematic address. This presidential nomination acceptance speech was not about hope or values or the universality of the American experience of the illusory obstacles that divide Americans. It was a solid and presidential speech. It's about the failure of the Republican Party, and the promises of the Democratic Party.
This has been the most aggressive speech of the week. And the most substantive I've seen Obama give. It's not a thematic address: It's not about hope or values or the universality of the American experience of the illusory obstacles that divide us. It's concrete. It's about the failure of the Republican Party, and the promises of the Democratic Party.
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