No comparison.

That was just kick ass. That crescendo at the end was just, well, wow.

McCain's got to be dumbfounded after that.

Spot on. I agree...WOW

Sum it up this way...

Obama gives a rousing speech to a packed stadium.

McCain talks about Obama in a high school gym.

I agree. It's done.

I was profoundly disappointed by her speech. By her not conceding - which McAuliffe said she would - she only wound up her followers into a near fanatical state. The longer she remains in denial, the longer they do too. And the harder it will be to unite the party.

During her speech, I told my wife in all exasperation: "She's a Jim Jones, only in a pant suit and without the Kool Aid!!"

We can only hope and pray the superdelegates will bring her back down to Earth.

Character is fate.

Hillary's performance today was abysmal. It showed yet again her complete lack of grace and her campaign's lack of understanding of the role of grace.

To still be inciting people to send this to Denver was disgraceful.

So they all decided she needed to show her muscle in order to gain the VEEP.

How could she not know that you catch more flies with honey than you ever will with vinegar.

By FAR, The most profound and touching thing I heard Senator Obama say tonight was that he enters this contest with profound humility and knowledge of his limitations.

I was sitting beside my 9 year old daughter in a packed theater with that historic nominee on the big screen.

All I could think about was how proud I was that we finally had the guts to select a leader that I could hold up as an example to my kids.

Humility. I almost lost it.

I'm pretty disappointed in TPM tonight.

The headline is

"OBAMA DECLARES HIMSELF THE NOMINEE"

Shameful... but no doubt, brought on by the fact that Hillary didn't concede. I wish the media would stop looking to the Clinton to interpret events that have an objective reality.

I do wish to thank Hillary that between that speech and her comments that McCain is more presidential ready than Obama, she pretty much too herself off the national stage.

The large donors will go where the power is: and that would be Obama.

And her 18 million votes, assuming they would still vote for her if their primary was today, are not like the uber-supporters you saw in the hall. Many of those voters came from California -- which Obama will win handily.

It takes a lot of energy to hate. Hillary has a reason to hate the opposition -- but for most of her supporters, they have their real lives.

This may well be like MacArthur's speech before a joint session of Congress. A shining moment, people talked of his running for president -- but then people slowly went away.

I also would like to thank her supporters for shouting, "Denver, Denver, Denver." I'm sure that was very comforting for any remaining superdelegates.

On watching her speech again, I realized she OPENED with a lie!

South Dakota did *not* have the last word in the Primary Season... Montana did.

Was it Hillary once again only acknowledging states where she wins?

we're still indulging hillary and billa's fragile egos. give them time? it's an important decision and she sholdn't be rushed? she's had several months to let this sink in. this isn't a goddamn surprise to aynone. and now she requests time?

she is classless. any chance she might have had at the vp slot was killed last night. (thank god.)

let's stop the madness. she's out of her mind. no class whatsoever. i couldn't believe (okay, i totally beleived it) that she could do that to obama on such a night.

i hope she and bill crawl back under the rock they came from.

Hillary took her speech last night to speak for the 18 million people who've supported, campaigned for her and care passionately about her goals. If you take a look at the segment of the speech "What does Hillary want?," it expresses to a tee why I've cared so much about her campaign. It's not about her being the first woman or him being the first African American. It's about those progressive liberal policies that I truly believe in and yes, I am saddened by the fact that with Hillary exiting the race, so goe sthe hopes for truly universal healthcare, aggressive foreclosure prevention policy, and a foreign policy based on aggressive diplomacy.

Obama folks were so angry she didn't concede last night that they couldn't even acknowledge the obvious - there is much common ground in her speech with her and Obama - much more so than McCain.

And Hillary folks were angry because Obama and his campaign would not give Hillary the space to give Hillary and her supporters one night to celebrate her campaign before moving in to the next phase of the election. I hate to use Jesse Jackson as a reference for democratic primary candidates since that would make me a racist, but I do not recall him conceding the race to Dukakis in 1988 before the convention precisely because he wanted influence on the issues of the party platform. Obama's policies can use some progressive liberal influence. We have great hopes of expanding the democratic margins in the House and Senate. Now is the not the time to be safe and timid with our economic policies. If there was ever a time to achieve truly universal healthcare a presidential goal, it is NOW.

In the spirit of unifying the party had I been Obama's campaign, I would have let the voters speak last night in SD & MT rather than pressuring super dels to put him over the top before voting had ended. I would have given Hillary one speech to her supporters to thank them for their dedication to her campaign. I would have taken the Clinton campaign at their word that they were NOT conceding Tuesday night. I would have scheduled this victory rally jointly with Senator Clinton conceding to the delegate lead to him publicly in a campaign rally like last night. THAT would have been a move towards party unity. I regret that is not the way it played out.

I will say this for Obama - his campaign knows how to play harball and has done it to stunning effect. They've demonstrated the Rovian skill to smear and slur and attack without appearing to get their hands dirty (who me sending out memos about the Clinton's being a racist? We would never push the RFK assasination story except in memos to the press! What's in those tax returns?!?!?!) That bodes well for November in that perhaps they can slur McCain as well (he's a nutjob! what's the deal with that black baby! he's senile! his time in captivity made him psycho and not likeable enough!), but in the meantime has left many Hillary supporters angry that the candidate we believed could win and bring the best progressive policies to the table was being unfairly attacked not on substance or policies but on is she likeable enough and is she member of the Klan. The way she has been treated by the Obama campaign and the media has been appalling.

Obviously time is necessary to heal the breach and move forward to November, but I would ask the Obama supporters to go back and actually take a look at her concession speech rather than just continuing to attack Hillary over and over again which I can say with conviction will just continue to deepen the divides in the Democratic party. Isn't what Hillary wants what we all want?

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/03/us/politics/03text-clinton.html