I’m biased. Ideologically, I’m a moderate liberal. But I’m a partisan Democrat to the core. And tonight, Barack Obama made me feel prouder to be a Democrat than I’ve felt in a long time.
His speech was so much different than others he’s given. It wasn’t post-partisan or rhetorically effusive, though it certainly had its moments.
It was a fighter’s speech.
It was indignant at George W. Bush and the damage he’s done to America.
It hurled righteous anger at John McCain for questioning his patriotism and taking the campaign into the gutter.
It spelled out a progressive policy agenda that he and Hillary Clinton advanced for so long, but this time with a level of detail completely missing from Obama’s speeches in the past.
Pat Buchanan just called it deeply centrist.
Andrew Sullivan deemed it the best case for liberalism since John F. Kennedy.
I just call it the best Democratic speech in my entire life.