Live Blogging Barack Obama Acceptnce Speech

Watching the speech on C-SPAN. Obama hasn't hit the stage yet. The music is annoying me. Why don't political conventions plays Sonic Youth's Bad Moon Rising? Tell me that.

Dick Durbin is introducing Obama.

Creative Loafing has a comment tread going on about Obama's acceptance speech.

10:04: They are airing the feel good movie/informercial.

10:06: Michelle Obama: Who names their kid Barack Obama?

10:08: I understand that the informercial is to introduce Obama to the masses. It might have viewers flipping the channel.

10:13: Obama hits the stage.

10:14: I'm watching an acceptance speech by a black man, in the stadium the Denver Broncos play football. How fucking wild is that?

10:15: Obama accepts the nomination. Crowd goes wild.

10:16: Obama gives a shout out to Hillary. Obama needs her supporters.

10:21: Obama: Enough!

Amen.

10:22: Obama's "Eight is enough line" is fantastic.

10:24: Obama is attacking Phil Gramn's "whiners" comment. Obama is in attack mode. Surprising.

10:26: Obama: John McCain doesn't get it.

10:28: Obama hitting working class message.

10:35: Obama: Washington has been talking about oil dependance for 30 years and John McCain for 26 of them.

10:37: Obama is going through laundry list of priorities.

Wayne Garcia of Creative Loafing.

Barack is smoking hot tonight.

The crowd is eating it up. It's a Democratic audience, but the cheering will play well in the media.

10:42: Good! Obama attacks McCain on Iraq and his lack of commitmentment on Afghanistan.

Obama: John McCain said he would follow Osama bin Laden to the gates of hell, but he won't even follow him to his cave.

Game. Set. Match.

10:48: Obama's "Patriotism has no party" line is exactly what voters want to hear. It recalls Obama's red state/blue state 2004 keynote speech.

10:51: Obama accusing McCain of using scare tactics and tying it on McCain not having fresh ideas.

Obama: This election is about you.

10:55: Say hello to your next president. McCain can't top this.

I don't know how this will play in the media. By all appearances, Obama nailed it. He addressed the McCain attacks and stayed on his message of hope. That is a difficult feat to perform. Obama has the skills to pull it off.

I see people in the audience crying tears of joy. Wow.

The Obama and Biden families are on stage together.

Fireworks are being set off. I can see why they wanted the speech outdoors.