"The Audacity of Hope!"

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Barack Obama, Democratic National Convention tonight via ABC News Now
[photo © eugene hernandez]

Speaking about "the audacity of hope," as he called it during an incredible keynote speech (prepared remarks transcript) at the Democratic convention an hour ago is Barack Obama, a state senator in Illinois who is seeking his first national office this fall, campaigning to be the new senator in Illinois. A highlight:

Yet even as we speak, there are those who are preparing to divide us, the spin masters and negative ad peddlers who embrace the politics of anything goes.

Well, I say to them tonight, there's not a liberal America and a conservative America – there's the United States of America.

There's not a Black America and White America and Latino America and Asian America– there's the United States of America.

The pundits like to slice-and-dice our country into Red States and Blue States; Red States for Republicans, Blue States for Democrats.

But I've got news for them, too.

We worship an awesome God in the Blue States, and we don't like federal agents poking around our libraries in the Red States.

We coach Little League in the Blue States and have gay friends in the Red States.

There are patriots who opposed the war in Iraq and patriots who supported it.

We are one people, all of us pledging allegiance to the stars and stripes, all of us defending the United States of America.

In the end, that's what this election is about.

Do we participate in a politics of cynicism or a politics of hope?

And the first crop of convention bloggers weigh in with immediate reactions to a stunning speech:
Daily Kos | Electablog | Matthew Gross | Pandagon

And, more at Barack Obama's blog:
Obamablog



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