The Post Bulletin reports on reactions to Obama's speech last night. From Denver, Seth McLaughlin reports:
Illinois Sen. Barack Obama shook the Mile High City last night, ripping the verbal gloves off in his presidential battle against presumed Republican nominee John McCain and bolstering the message of hope that has fueled his historic bid to be the nation's first African-American president.
"I think he tackled the critics," said U.S. Rep Tim Walz. "It was a rare event."
Before roughly 80,000 people at Invesco Field, Obama accepted his party's presidential nomination and tied McCain to the "failed presidency of George W. Bush" and "the broken politics in Washington."
The address left local patrons in many Denver bars whooping and hollering, well-known Republicans openly awestruck, and Walz and the rest of the local Minnesota delegation gushing. . . .
. . .Obama used the roughly 42-minute speech to spell out the agenda he would push if elected president -- from ending the country's reliance on foreign oil to keeping "the promise of equal pay" for women.
"The speech went right through what he would do, how he would invest in middle class, invest in alternative fuels and help veterans," Walz said.
Looking closer to home, the paper covered a watch party as Rochester Labor Temple cheers Obama. One snippet:
. . .Andy Tollefson said his family could have watched Obama's acceptance speech in the comfort of their own home, but they wanted the camaraderie of the Labor Temple meeting.
"I like the idea that I'm not the only one that feels the same about this particular candidacy," Andy Tollefson said. . . .
The Mankato Free Press covered a watch party in Obama speech finds receptive audience at MSU
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