Holy Mother of Jesus...(and I'm athiest.) As a snide / cynical / jaded person I have to say that was the first time in nearly 20 years that I was teeming, riving, busting with patriotism for my country (other than how I feel about the land itself and the good people who live here).

That speech just guaranteed the presidency. I'm shivering just thinking about it and I'm skeptical OF ANY politician - ANYONE. And timing it on MLK's speech date - ABSOLUTELY BRILLIANT. The whole world was cheering for Obama and the US last night - we were flooded with emails from people we recently met traveling in Ecuador telling us how amazed they were at this speech since we talked so much about politics (everyone laughing at the US because of Bush).

Never in my life have I heard a political speech - in my life I'm saying - that affected me like Obama's acceptance speech. Could you imagine Bush or Cheney giving a speech remotely like this one??? THAT WILL BE THE DAY...

For posterity, I think any slams / comments on McCain could've been omitted, but wow...if you live in the US and that speech didn't move you then you are truly a heartless, soul-less, uneducated, authoritarian, fundamentalist, grave-digger and YOU should move - just pack up and head to China or Russia where that authoritarian BS is revered - because I'm going to have my fucking country back!

My 40-year Air Force / Republican parents WERE BAWLING...they could not believe it....I've never seen anything like that. They recently switched parties just to vote for Obama, my father reluctantly, but this sealed the deal.

Now sit back and watch how negative, sinister, and attack-laden the Rep Nat'l Convention will be - it'll be like the Amityville Horror! What in the world can they possibly say that will top this? All they can do now is attack. I'm going to watch just to see what that might be, but wow...you'd have to walk down out of the clouds to top this one. Rove and his butt-lubing buddies aren't going to just sit quietly on this - they FEARED Obama's nomination more than anything, and their attacks will be clear and obvious, only it will come off like bullies beating up kids after the DNC convention.

YOU RULED IT OBAMA - YOU REALLY SHOWED THE WORLD WHO WE REALLY ARE AFTER HAVING BEEN HOODED & ELECTROCUTED BY BUSH / CHENEY FOR EIGHT DAMN YEARS! THANK YOU.

Redneck Leftist

Liberal: [Latin,liber ("free, not slave")]. It is widely associated with the word "liberty" and the concept of freedom; "tending in favor of freedom and democracy" (Wikipedia,2006)