Though I may just want to watch …
And we’re off …
10:18 PM … Watching how the background actually looks, the Greek temple nonsense seems awfully silly.
10:23 PM … I think — not just in the speech but in the lead-up over the course of the afternoon — the impression of this event, holding it in a stadium, is one of a mass event, an open event, a popular event, not one of grandiosity as many of the critics claimed. (I would structure that sentence better; but I’m trying to listen to what he’s saying at the same time.)
10:26 PM … “It’s time for them to own their failure.”
10:42 PM … “John McCain stands alone.” Very good on framing (sigh, hate the phrase) the debate over Iraq in which everything is trending toward Obama’s position.
10:47 PM … An echo of the 2004 keynote that put him here.
10:50 PM … I think he’s doing a good job inoculating against next week’s attacks (and responding to the earlier ones) without appearing defensive or reactive.
