let me uh talk about some of the other
big moments of this convention because
one of the surprises for a lot of people
who aren't pay don't pay close attention
to Illinois politics like say David
broer does was Barack Obama who's the
Democratic Senate nominee there and he
gave a big speech in which in which he
kind of roared and electrified the CL
electrified the it's been a long week um
I had a chance to talk to uh to Barack
Obama after his speech that night and I
asked him what it would take for him and
for John KY to win in November and he
gave a pretty self-confident
answer we'll take care of Illinois um
but uh I think in those critical States
uh uh which may end up determining the
election I think it's just a matter of
being clear
straightforward honest uh specific about
uh how the Democrat RS can provide
opportunity for people who don't have it
and help give relief to those folks
who've made it into the middle class but
are still struggling uh and are feeling
that they may be slipping kind of a
rockar Michael uh A Star is Born uh the
the interesting thing about Obama speech
and and the whole week again is that so
much of this was about Unity within the
party but there was a sub sort of river
running through this convention that you
couldn't miss if you were watching and
that is the Democrats clearly are not
willing to let George W bush have 9911
they want to keep a piece of it for
themselves and and it's this piece it's
not simply that what happened on 9911
means we have to reorganize the way we
think about you know defending United
States the Democrats were saying yeah
that may be true that's right but we
also have to remember what happened
after 911 which is that the we came
together as a nation and and the theme
of Obama speech and the theme of a lot
of what a lot of people said was a 911
mean something else as well to us which
is that we came together and we we
haven't been together since I think
that's what Carrie said last night and
and they're saying I think over and over
all week we're going to put it back
together that was a powerful I think one
of the most powerful themes because it
basically said we're not going to let
the president have what happened in 2001
we're going to Define it the way we see
it and that has real power across I
think the middle I think Obama had the
best line of the convention The Audacity
Of Hope I mean how beautiful and poetic
I thought I really still stuck with the
convention theme yeah he's he may
probably the best writer uh in politics
in certainly in Illinois since ADL
Stevenson and his future is just
unlimited now I didn't meet a single
reporter in Boston who was not just
blown away by their first Su session
with this man and is it your
understanding David that he wrote his
own speech those are his words he
doesn't have I think that is right I'm
more prepared to believe that than that
John KY actually wrote his the first
draft in three hours
the day he found out he was doing it wow
wow 80% was ready to go