
Not a great speech but an effective one
On a night which will live long in the memory, Barack Obama accepted the Democratic nomination for president. His acceptance speech was in parts stridently populist but in others presented Obama as the great conciliator. The speech as a text was not one of Obama’s best but it was delivered with the passion that he is often said to lack. When he thundered ‘Enough!’ about the last eight years the crowd was momentarily taken aback. This convention has been criticised for not being harsh enough on John McCain, Obama set about correcting that with surprisingly harsh attacks on his opponent. He repeatedly accused McCain of being out of touch and
