Obama tells crowd of 84,000 that he'll fix Washington

Friday 29th August, 11:33 AM JST

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WhiteHawk at 06:44 AM JST - 30th August

Something else I noticed about Obama's speech last night: He kept saying "if McCain wants to debate" this and that, yet Obama has been declining McCain's invitations for months. What happened to "anytime, anywhere" Barack? What's that? You meant Ahmedinejad, not McCain?

Maybe now that Obama made it through the convention without a Clinton coup, he'll have the courage to appear on Fox News.
zurcronium at 06:58 AM JST - 30th August

courage to appear on fox news? they are just a bunch of pansies there who fold when the truth is spoken. So why bother with the republican propaganda machine that is supposedly a part of the liberal media you wingers love to lie about?

barack will debate mccain in an official debate, not some screwy rigged event that mccain had proposed. And if any of you think barack wont wipe the floor with mccain who has trouble speaking due to his advanced age you are seriously deluded. Of course!
WhiteHawk at 07:15 AM JST - 30th August

zurcronium, I guess that's why Obama's events have been so carefully scripted, eh?
WhiteHawk at 07:18 AM JST - 30th August

It's not just Fox News. Obama won't bother with visiting the troops either. You're not suggesting they're a bunch of pansies too, are you?

Say, when is that courageous Obama going to face a direct, critical question? Even better, when will he give a direct, substantive response? He's been campaigning for a couple years now, I'm still waiting. Maybe that's "above his pay grade"?

Go ahead, spin the truth out of that. I know you want to.
WhiteHawk at 07:22 AM JST - 30th August

jwills79:

Quote: She has recently come under the scrutiny of an investigation by the Republican-controlled legislature into the possibility that she ordered the dismissal of Alaska's public safety commissioner because he would not fire her former brother-in-law as a state trooper.

Since you're an open-minded progressive, you'll probably want to know the rest of the story:

On July 11, 2008, Palin dismissed Walter Monegan as Commissioner of Public Safety and instead offered him a position as executive director of the state Alcoholic Beverage Control Board, which he subsequently turned down. Monegan alleged shortly after his dismissal that it may have been partly due to his reluctance to fire an Alaska State Trooper, Mike Wooten, who had been involved in a divorce and child custody battle with Palin's sister, Molly McCann. In 2006, before Palin was governor, Wooten was briefly suspended for ten days for threatening to kill McCann's (and Palin's) father, tasering his 11-year-old stepson (at the stepson's request), and violating game laws. After a union protest, the suspension was reduced to five days.

Palin asserted that her dismissal of Monegan was unrelated to the fact that he had not fired Wooten, and asserts that Monegan was instead dismissed for not adequately filling state trooper vacancies, and because he "did not turn out to be a team player on budgeting issues." Palin acknowledged that a member of her administration, Frank Bailey, did contact the Department of Public Safety regarding Wooten, but both Palin and Bailey say that happened without her knowledge and was unrelated to her dismissal of Monegan. Bailey was put on leave for two months for acting outside the scope of his authority as the Director of Boards and Commissions. Commissioner Monegan received no severance pay, though at the same time another dismissed Commissioner, Charles Kopp (who served only 11 days) received $10,000.

In response to Palin's statement that she had nothing to hide, in August 2008 the Alaska Legislature hired Steve Branchflower to investigate Palin and her staff for possible abuse of power surrounding the dismissal, though lawmakers acknowledge that "Monegan and other commissioners serve at will, meaning they can be fired by Palin at any time." The investigation is being overseen by Democratic State Senator Hollis French, who says that the Palin administration has been cooperating and thus subpoenas are unnecessary. The Palin administration itself was the first to release an audiotape of Bailey making inquiries about the status of the Wooten investigation.

From the young American liberal's favorite source, Wikipedia.
adaydream at 08:11 AM JST - 30th August

It's amazing how the republicans are just pounding the keys in their anti-obama rheteric and not a single post on the McCain picks Palin article. They are more concerned about bashing Obama than commenting on Palin.

I for one enjoyed his speach.

The biggest thing that has to be remembered is that the republicans have to recognize that there needs to be a change in Washington. But they like the way that george bush has used the office and want McCain to follow his administration as a model of success.

I'll be glad to see how he fixes a little of Washington. < :-)
DanManjt at 08:44 AM JST - 30th August

This just in:

38 million watched on TV Obama accept the nomination.

That's bigger than the Olympics.

Hello President Obama.
yabits at 08:54 AM JST - 30th August

It's amazing how the republicans are just pounding the keys in their anti-obama rheteric and not a single post on the McCain picks Palin article. They are more concerned about bashing Obama than commenting on Palin.

They are waiting on their talking points.
sdmsec at 10:20 AM JST - 30th August

Has anyone here actually read this closely? The following quotes are downright spooky.

Surrounded by an enormous, adoring crow, Barack Obama promised a clean beak.

Why is he pandering to birds for heaven's sake?!

Thursday night as he embarked on the final lap dance of his audacious bed.

Disgusting! What won't he do for a vote?

America, now is not the time for small planes.

So much for environment-friendly.

The Illinois senator sold an estimated 84,000 people packed into a huge football at the base of the Rocky Mountains.

I thought there was an amendment to outlaw that.

He vowed to cut taxes for nearly all working-class families, end the war in Iraq and break America.

Of course, the government and individuals are all breaking America.

Hope you enjoyed. :-)
zurcronium at 08:29 PM JST - 30th August

Nearly 40 million americans watched this speech, nearly doubling the record for a previous acceptance speech. Many republicans watched as well and as a result will vote for Obama in November. Millions more watched on teh internet no doubt as I did.

Since the key demographic for mccain, the ancient, will be long asleep before he speaks the numbers will be much, much less next week. In fact I wonder how they are going to keep him up for his speech. He needs his naps as we all know. Otherwise he forgets how many houses he owns. Little things like that.
Alinsky4prez at 08:37 PM JST - 30th August

40 million viewers will translate into even more than the 15 point post convention bounce that Bill Clinton got after the nomination.

mccain is finished.
WhiteHawk at 11:27 AM JST - 31st August

40 million viewers will translate into even more than the 15 point post convention bounce that Bill Clinton got after the nomination.

And yet, it hasn't. In fact, Obama din't get any "bounce" at all through Wednesday. A couple of polls even had McCain's numbers increasing.

Even with that 15 point bounce, Clinton still needed Ross Perot to get in with 43% of the vote.
bushlover at 08:59 AM JST - 1st September

[it would be easy for someone who WANTS to misread it to do so, but I'll point it out again for those bushites who have a hard time learning (and clearly you do if you still believe in bush and republicans].

Look whose misreading... but we cannot blame someone so fixated on his own hate that he is deaf, dumb and blind to anything else... A kind of nazi in a way.
GeorgeRoper at 09:08 AM JST - 1st September

I was watching BBC news over the weekend, and their experts think that the black fella, Obama is the best choice for America.

They said McCain will probably start a war with Iran, and foreigners will hate America.

They also said Mr McCain has problems with his memory, so he maybe cannot be trusted, blimey i wouldnt want somein charge who cant remember everything.
Blue_Tiger at 12:34 PM JST - 1st September

For awhile during his speech, I thought Obama was telling the crowd that he "was on the fix" rather than "will fix" when speaking about Washington DC...