Live Blogging the Convention

by BarbinMD [courtesy of Daily Kos]

Let's get ready to rumble....

Update by georgia10:  The biography of Obama was stirring.  It hit on all the right themes:  the importance of family, the power of the American dream, the way we are shaped both by our background and circumstance as well as the individual choices we make.  

The Obama presented in this video is the Obama we've know here in Illinois for years, and the Obama we as a nation are now embracing.  The family man, the deliberate thinker, the guy who reflects just as deeply on the road traveled behind him as he does on the path forward.  

It is difficult to describe what makes Obama's life story so compelling.  Like all of us who stumble along in life, towards some end where we feel that we'll leave some imprint on this earth, like all of us who have lived through the last eight years knowing that the promise of something more was on the horizon, Obama has shown that the doors of democracy don't open just for the mega-rich or the well-connected. That anyone, even the skinny black kid with the funny name, can in this great country before 75,000 and accept the Democratic nomination.