Obama Accepts

According to the yahoo pundits, who first critiqued Michelle Obama's speech on Monday for not attacking McCain enough then backtracked and called it an excellent set up for the rest of the week, Obama's acceptance speech last night had to accomplish about 18,000 different things, many of them contradictory. By my estimation, he was able to get almost all of them done (almost-according to one of the idiots, the speech was too long. ugh.).

In any case, I thought he did a fantastic job defining himself, his policies and the way he intends to run his campaign. It wasn't quite as inspiring as the "Yes We Can" speech after New Hampshire, or as historic as the "More Perfect Union" speech in the middle of the Rev. Wright fiasco. But it balanced inspiration with substance, drew a line between attacking policies and attacking the candidate, and laid out a reasonable, bi-partisan approach to some of the biggest cultural problems in the country. The section toward the end when Obama spoke about having differences on abortion, gun control and gay rights but still making progress on the issues was ridiculously good. I heard someone comment on both Clintons' ability to deliver big-game speeches. Obama's performance last night cements his reputation as the best big-game speaker in the business.