Fifty-five years ago tomorrow, Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. spoke these famous words on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial:

I'll leave the convention reporting to those enjoying the higher altitude in person this week.  There is something else exciting going on to which I can contribute a little bit.

My little sister is starting college!

Bill says that Hillary is supporting Barack Obama, that his support makes two of them, and:

Actually, that makes 18 million of us.

And that:

Barack Obama is the man for this job.

Barack Obama is ready to be President of the United States

The Big Dog is up. Prepare for media tears as Bill Clinton endorses Barack Obama. Says Bill:

I am honored to be here tonight...[crowd going nuts]...I am here, first to support Barack Obama and second I'm here to warm up the crowd for Joe Biden.

George Cook of www.letstalkhonestly.com explains why he is so proud of Michelle Obama and why he believes she is a great role model for all women.

Did you see it? Can you believe it?? We've realized the dreams of an important leader of our times (or mine anyway).

I did post this diary before - but I felt that tonight it was appropriate to repost it again.

Don't forget to read this article also:  MLK to Obama - A Dream Realized

"We've got some difficult days ahead. But it doesn't matter with me now. Because I've been to the mountaintop."

Martin Luther King
April 3, 1968

Readers of my old blog, the Whiskey Bar, probably know I have had a long and conflicted relationship with the Democratic Party -- one that generally ranges between reluctantly supportive (on the really good days) to utterly disgusted (most days).

To compare it to a bad marriage would be an insult to unhappy couples everywhere.

I'm not in town, of course, but the description of Spike Lee walking around in a t-shirt showing Obama dunking on McCain has got to be best around.  

But was Obama fouled on the way to the backet?  YES, and it counts, and Obama goes to the line...

A new AP dispatch reports on this and other stars in attendance.

I don't often write diaries unless I have something really important to say.  And today is one of those days.  I'll try to keep this short & sweet.

Cross-posted by Will Bunch at my Philadelphia Daily News blog, Attytood. Like most newspaper blogs, sadly, a lot of right-wingers camp out there, so I urge you come to come over and join the battle.

"I am mindful that only yesterday in Birmingham, Alabama, our children, crying out for brotherhood, were answered with fire hoses, snarling dogs, and even death. I am mindful that only yesterday in Philadelphia, Mississippi, young people seeking to secure the right to vote were brutalized and murdered."

-- The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, accepting the Nobel Peace Prize in 1964.

Running for president requires great strength and stamina. The race is long and treacherous. John McCain has been forcefully pushing his argument that he is better qualified for the job than his opponent, Barack Obama. In fact, McCain contends that Obama is not qualified at all. The latest McCain ad says that Obama is "dangerously unprepared" to be president.

So what makes McCain so ready to be Commander-in-Chief?

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I’ve never in my life experienced a physical reaction after reading something on a computer screen.  Sure, there have been diaries here or articles that have brought the proverbial tears to my eyes but never had I actually felt chills run through my body.  It was a rush, like William Gibson’s "freight train running up my spine" after the protagonist in Neuromancer pushed on an adhesive patch of amphetamine.

Of course in that world, the street "held the axe."  For a long time people all over this country, in our inner cities and our impoverished rural towns have been waiting for that axe to fall.  I hope they feel, as I do, that the axe has been stayed.  For more, follow me after the jump.

ANSWER: In the Barack-y Mountains!  

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Ok, now I guess I have to talk about real things in order to fill out this entry.  It really bothers me when I see the McCain ads talking about how Barack Obama wants to raise "your" taxes.  Obama's tax plan raises taxes only for people who makes over $600,000 a year.  Here's my idea for a response ad:

...and found me crying about half an hour ago.

I stood in the middle of our living room with tears in my eyes and running down my face.

(continued)

The Party is as united as its been since 2007.

There are some good state polls out today....

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/...

Joe Biden appears poised to go on the attack tonight.

Barack will no doubt deliver a great speech tomorrow night.

Do we really need to step on this good news with an unforced gaffe?

(Cross-posted from Obamaism.org)

    Though I didn't have the chance to glue myself to the whole day/night of DNC coverage, I was at least able to catch some big hitters.
    Mark Warner (former Virginia gov) showed why wonky isn't always bad: he was not the most exciting guy, and his speech was not exactly the "Obama 04" speech. But people understand that details on creating jobs and other economic stuff are not always light and fluffy; MW's somewhat technical-tinted presentation added some intellectual ballast to the evening. --Warner wouldn't have been a bad Vice President!!

    Gov. Brian Schweitzer of Montana was somewhat in the same vein, though more exciting and excited. His presentation was largely about energy issues, and his joke about McCain's proposed $4 billion tax break for oil companies not being the kind of "change" we need echoed a "change" pun I'd wanted to make for a while.

    (kinkiness below)

Our national dark night will soon be a glorious brand new day.

Now that we have seen the very passionate, very aggressive, very clear in her support for Sen. Obama (the Next President of the United States of America!) speech from Sen. Clinton the Dog is wondering if we are seeing a political head fake. This might be too clever by half, but stick with the Dog on this.

We know that summer is a usually a time where most voters are more interested in the Olympics or the Pennant Race in MLB or even the recalcitrant brown spot in the middle of the lawn than the presidential politics. It is a time of framing and dirty tricks precisely for this reason. But this summer has been a little different. We had a primary process that was not over until the beginning of June, so there was more awareness going into the summer. Then we had the PUMA’s pop up. They got plenty of air time claiming that they would not support Sen. Obama, no, no, no, never! This went on, even though Sen. Clinton appeared in Unity, NH with Sen. Obama and gave her unequivocal support. It kept a story line going that would get play on every network everywhere, right up to this week and the convention.