Obama’s Acceptance Speech Tonight

Bush has done the Democratic Party no favors by being the worst President in US history. The worse he governs, the more leeway he gives to the Democratic candidate to be centrist and corporate, because most at this point cannot tolerate or comprehend the idea of another Republican President. The plan for Obama’s speech tonight looks quite ambitious; having an embarrassing, over-reaching fiasco at this event, setting things up for fake plainspoken simplicity at the GOP convention, is perhaps the only thing that could stop Obama’s momentum towards the White House. I doubt if they will make major mistakes which turn off the public, and I know that in fact the major goal of this stadium stunt is to bolster organizing in Colorado itself, but certainly the stakes are higher than at the usual convention acceptance speech.