The expectations for Obama’s speech tonight are a mile high. I’d be tempted to say they’ll be impossible to match but, as First Read points out , Obama has never yet failed to deliver on one of these set piece occasions.
Obama speaks as the first African-American nominee of a major American party on the 45th anniversary of Martin Luther King’s ‘I have a dream’ speech’, emphasising the historic nature of this moment. Add to this the fact that Obama is regarded as the best political orator in a generation and that his political career took off with his 2004 convention address, and you realise just how much people are expecting. To give you a flavour of the mood here in Denver, I passed through a party last night where people were dancing to music spliced heavily with extracts from Obama’s speeches.
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