What Obama accomplished

Did his acceptance speech say everything it needed to?

“Barack Obama had to give the speech of his life Thursday night,” said David Yepsen in the Des Moines Register. “And he did.” His powerful address (New York Times video) had plenty of “rhetorical red meat” to inspire partisan zealots.” But it also had “meat on the bones” that made clear how the man who is now officially the Democratic presidential nominee plans to realize his vision for the country.

The coronation before 85,000 people at Invesco Field provided the closest look yet at “the shooting star bidding to be our next president,” said The Wall Street Journal in an editorial. “Yet for someone who is so close to being the most powerful man in the world, the remarkable fact is that Americans still know very little about either his political philosophy or what he wants to accomplish.”

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