Barack Obama Official Democratic Party Nominee

[mikelgb]

Source: Capital News (C-SPAN) - Yahoo/AP

Dems choose Obama; Clinton joins in acclamation

Barack Obama, standing where no black has ever stood before, swept to the Democratic presidential nomination on Wednesday as thousands of national convention delegates cheered his improbable triumph.

Former rival Hillary Rodham Clinton asked the convention delegates to make it unanimous, the culmination of a painstaking agreement worked out between the two camps to present a unified front.

Read more: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080827/ap_on_el_pr/cvn_convention_rdp

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there it is

[wryter2000]

1. It was live on Rachel's show

Hillary hit it out of the park again!

[Love Bug]

2. Time: 4:48 p.m. Mountain Time

We now have an official Democratic nominee! woo-hoo!

[merwin]

3. "Standing where no black has ever stood before".

I didn't realize it was kosher for the AP to use the term "black" instead of "African American"

[uberblonde]

5. It's perfectly acceptable.

Not all blacks are of African descent.

[merwin]

10. But Obama is of African descent, right?

I would assume that he prefers to be called African American.

Actually, I take that back. I don't think he gives a flying fuck what people call him, as long as it starts with "Mr President" :)

[Lucky 13]

6. It would even be better to say "..where no Black PERSON has..."

The way this is phrased seems to be calling him "a black". It's at least pretty rude.

[merwin]

12. Well, I completely disagree with that!

I was under the impression that them colored people were still three fifths of a person!

:sarcasm:

[Lucky 13]

18. You scared me with that subject line.

Thought I was going to have to go get my flame thrower.

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

39. three fifths of a president

is a big improvement over the "three fifths per day" president we have now!

[Xithras]

13. I don't know about rude, but it's certainly poor English.

"Black" is an adjective, not a noun. It would have been correct for the writer to type "where no black man" or "where no black person" or "where no black politician", because in all of those sentences the word "black" is simply giving more information about the subject of the sentence. Saying "where no black has" doesn't make linguistic sense because the sentence is missing a noun or subject.

As for the "black person" versus "African American" thing, I have found that it's usually best to go with whatever the individual prefers. Obama has self-described as a "black man" in speeches, indicating that he finds the term acceptable.

[merwin]

24. OK, I wasn't sure how Obama described himself.

Calling somebody "black" has always seemed to me as being used more negatively than positively. But, I'm not black/African American/etc, so who am I to judge :)

[savistocate]

30. Anglo African AMERICAN -hearing a really smart caller

KPHX say he's also Anglo -sooooo..Anglo African American
Mostly - A m e r i c a n

[JonLP24]

38. My wife prefers 'black'

Reason she states is she is noy from africa nor has she been to africa. She uses the term 'white' to describe caucasions and was never offended by it. Hell, I see the word 'white' used quite frequently on DU

[Rhiannon12866]

4. Here's the link I found: Rocky Mountain News. Hillary called for a suspension of the roll call and

for Obama to become the official nominee by acclamation, when the NY delegation's turn came. However, all the votes will be counted. The Democrats are particularly sensitive to that... :-)

Streaming Live from the Pepsi Center in Denver:
http://www.rockymountainnews.com/multimedia/dnc/live/

[bdamomma]

7. watch C Span no lies or spin.

[Wabbajack_]

35. Or watch dish network channel 211

Just a live feed. Doesn't even have a caption with the speaker's name!

[janet118]

8. Democrats rock!!!!

Classy party. Hillary - classy lady. Barack - classy nominee.

Let's get busy!!!!

[Wabbajack_]

9. Freepers were convinced

Hillary would "steal" the nomination somehow.

[Myrina]

20. Well ... when California and then Illinois 'passed' ...

... I started to get nervous. Then when they got to the "N"'s and New Mexico deferred to Illinois who deferred to New York and then the hub-bub of Hillary arriving on the floor with the NY Delegation, I gotta admit I was queasy and real anxious ...

[Historic NY]

11. The next POTUS Barack Obama its official.....

Hillary did the right thing and thats all that counts. It will be remembered.

[katty]

14. FINALLY! Go Barack! and-Thank you Hillary-thank you!

[Suji to Seoul]

15. Our next president, folks

Gobama! Go Biden!!!

[npk]

16. I missed the roll call, had to work

But I am glad Hillary called on the convention delegates to officially get behind Obama and make it official. Nice job Hillary.

[Jester Messiah]

17. Godspeed, Senator Obama. [nt]

[Number23]

19. Thank you, John McCain!!

I do believe that your pointless, insulting, asinine and just plain DUMB as sh*t "Passed over" ads helped contribute to this:

"Former rival Hillary Rodham Clinton asked the convention delegates to make it unanimous "in the spirit of unity, with the goal of victory." And they did, with a roar."

Hillary! Thank you!! Thank you so much!!

I can't believe I have lived long enough at the ripe old age of 36 to see a black presidential nominee and perhaps the first black president of the United States.

I am so happy, so thrilled and excited I can't stand it....

:bounce: :woohoo: :bounce:

[AllyCat]

32. This is just mind-blowing. I never thought I'd see this day.

And to think we eventually had a choice between a woman or a black man. On to the WH! Congratulations Mr. Obama!

[RedLetterRev]

42. 36? Even moreso at 51

I remember when JFK was assassinated. I was only in first grade, but I have those snapshot and sound-clip memories of teachers holding one another and the echoes of their sobs in the hallways of the ancient schoolhouse where my mother had also attended. I remember when Dr King and RFK were also killed for being so bold as to suggest that everyone, even the least of us mattered. I remember the riots. I remember the sit-ins. I remember activism that was present, on the line, in harm's way on the streets. I remember blood being shed and the tears and the shock.

I also remember each joy at every little step toward light and liberty. In America, we mouth a lot of words about liberty, but we haven't lived or lived up to the full dream yet.

Last night was one huge step. Oh, Dear G'd, Dear G'd, what a wonderful step! I wondered what Jack, or Bobby, or Martin, or Rosa, or Harriet or a million other names we'll never know would think. I'd like to think that their ghosts are breathing a sigh of relief, knowing that their children have finally done One Good Thing. We've done One Good Thing and now it's time to do the real work of supporting this brave man and his family for the next full four years. It's time to support each other, to go back to the streets if necessary.

And it will be necessary, you believe me on this. Having a Progressive POTUS and a Progressive Congress will. Not. Be. Enough. We're going to have to fight tooth and nail for every freedom that has been taken from us. Those who came before us had to fight for what was already rightfully theirs. This fight will be no different. Take it to the bank.

But having done it before, we see, we know, we understand that Yes We Can do it again.

[Number23]

43. You are exactly right

Those who came before us had to fight for what was already rightfully theirs. This fight will be no different.

Isn't that a damn shame?? Your statement beautifully illustrates the frustration of so many, particularly black, people. We may know that we have the LEGAL right to live where we want to live, work where we want to work and run for whatever government office we want, but it sure as hell hasn't felt that way very often.

Yes there will be a fight to get the man in office, but that's why he has managed to generate such passion and emotion from people. His supporters KNOW it will be a bitter, ugly fight. And they are still ready, willing and able to fight it! In the immortal words of the East Compton High cheerleaders, "Bring it!" :headbang:

[AnnieBW]

21. WOOHOO!!!

:yourock: :headbang: :grouphug:

[Jefferson23]

22. CONGRATULATIONS OBAMA,, The next President of the United States of America!!!

THANK YOU Senator Clinton for that waiver of the roll call! I will never forget it!

[llmart]

23. For those of us older folk......

this truly is historic. This whole convention has been historic. A woman and a black man. In many, many ways, despite the freeper, racist,homophobic and misogynist blowhards in this country WE STILL DID IT! And never, ever forget it was the Democrats that did this and most other progressive things this country has experienced.

I got goosebumps just thinking of it all and I'm almost 60! This is something I could only imagine when I cast my first Presidential vote.

[Arugula Latte]

25. Congratulations Senator ---> President Obama!

:toast:

[nradisic]

26. Thank you Big Dog, Thank you Hillary

Free at Last, Thank God Almighty, Free at Last. Tonight could be (I pray it will be) a new dawning for America and the World.

[happygoluckytoyou]

27. loved the clintons but did you hear KERRY ROCK

1/2 of that and he'd have been president

[democracy1st]

28. WOW!

[Lugnut]

29. On this historic day in American history...

:kick:

[eagertolearn]

31. Why did some states "pass"on the roll call? I only saw part of it. n/t

[kestrel91316]

33. That's a strategic maneuver - they didn't want the Obama votes to

put him over the top before they got to NY because they knew what she had planned. These things are always highly orchestrated.

Where there is no fight, they will have some states pass just so the nominee's own state can be the one to put him over the top. Longstanding tradition.

[eagertolearn]

44. Thanks!

[Trajan]

34. Congratulations to Mr. and Mrs. Obama ...

And congratulations to America ...

[DUlover2909]

36. Historic

:toast:

[rekoveringamerikan]

37. Can we PLEASE get our facts straight?

soon to be President Obama is a biracial, mixed ethnic background American.

Son of a white American female.

Son of a white African father.

Soon to be POTUS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Sunnyshine]

40. K&R - Barack being declared the official nominee. AP is garbage. Scrub their feed from Yahoo.

GoBamaBiden 08!:woohoo:

[Anexio]

41. Why does skin color have anything to do with anything?

I think, as a nation, we need to move past the point where we have to identify people by the color of their skin. Next week, at the RNC convention, will we see the headline, "John McCain, standing where many whites have stood before?..." No, of course not. That would be ridiculous.

And I think it should be the same for Obama. Yes, his skin color is black but that has nothing to do with why he earned the nomination last night. I hope thats not why people are voting for him in November. I'm voting for him because he's qualified, not because he's a black man.