Spin all you want, but the message is real and it’s working.

Dos: I think Obama has taken far more shots at McCain than Hillary has. Iraq, Iran, etc…

“…does Clinton chose Obama for VP? – dos

Yes. Future revealed here. No charge.

I like Obama, but I have this unfortunate “feeling” (which what that campaign is all about) that his message is an inch deep and is going to get blown away at some point. He wins through fevered political emotionalism, but moods swing…

No matter how much I wanted to join in the fun — all of my instincts rejected all the glorious happiness. Spiritual solemnity, quiet piousness, and the solid belief that man is born of original sin and death….I digress…

Obama is the same way for me. The guy requires the naivity and stupidity of youth. He is inspiring, but it is the show about nothing. He did ask for sacrifice, but that sacrifice was airy, undefined and thus, not too painful.

He would go a long way in my book if he acted as a good Catholic priest in confession: give a good penance for our sins. Tell us it is our fault, all our fault and now we have to pay the band or our children will. Be brutal, be direct – inspiration does not mean make you feel good.

Yes we can!…pay the bill.

Unfortunately, as Donklephant commenter Jodi Vander Molen points out in a comment to Justin’s liveblog post, the line is from someone else’s poem. And Barack did not offer attribution.

And who will join this standing up
and the ones who stood without sweet company
will sing and sing
back into the mountains and
if necessary
even under the sea:
we are the ones we have been waiting for.

from Passion: New Poems, 1977-80, by June Jordan

When Joe Biden cribbed lines for his speech, it was called plagiarism and he was driven from the 1988 presidential race. I wonder if Obama will get the same treatment from the media.

Clinton can’t win this race, she is a robot.

1) Was any attempt made–by the campaigns and/or the networks–at some sort of “scheduling” of these speeches? At one point, when I was flipping around the TV channels, I saw a split-screen of two of the Republicans. I think it was McCain and Huckabee. Clinton and Obama, on the other hand, didn’t step on each other’s speeches.

2) I’m not normally a big fan of Faux News, but the other networks were getting on my nerves, for some reason, and I watched most of Obama’s speech on Faux. Shortly after it was over, Brit Hume pointed out one woman in the crowd behind Obama. If you watch the video above, it’s the blonde with her hair pulled back, wearing a tan/beige shirt over a black t-shirt–she’s only half-visible on the right edge of the screen, the way CNN framed their shot. Anyways, Hume said of this woman, something like, “Notice how she’s just not listening to his speech; she’s hanging on every word that comes out of his mouth. She’s crying, clapping, emoting. This is what’s missing from American politics… we need a lot more of this in American politics.” Anyone else see that?

Lastly, I couldn’t help but notice during the few minutes that I was watching Faux, how much they’re playing up Hillary. It’s almost as if they want Hillary to win, and maybe for the same reason that Rush, SLAnnder and some of the others want Hillary to prevail: It will give them a chance to drag out and dust off all their old, tired anti-Clinton material… along with any of the new anti-Clinton stuff that was probably written several weeks, if not several months ago.

If Obama prevails in Denver, they’ll have to come up with new material, rather than just pushing the button marked PLAY.

Don’t know if that will carry over to the ballot box in November… but last night… dah-yum…