Obama was a rockstar.
- selma 7-28-2004 5:59 pm [add a comment]

Here's the text, but that's not really the point. The Dems should get the video on the web ASAP. What could the hold up be? Just post a .torrent and it will be everywhere by this afternoon, for absolutely no cost. Seems weird they don't do this.
- jim 7-28-2004 5:59 pm [add a comment]

bottom of the page.
- dave 7-28-2004 6:03 pm [add a comment]

• or just load
  
  rtsp://cspanrm.fplive.net/cspan/project/c04/c04_dnc072704_obama.rm
  
  into realplayer.
  
  - dave 7-28-2004 6:14 pm [add a comment]

Television coverage was low last night too. So really impression will depend on how the papers cover it today.
- selma 7-28-2004 6:04 pm [add a comment]

Thanks Dave. Hi Selma. Just found it too. It's a Real Media clip. If the link doesn't work, just open Real Player, and in the file menu choose 'Open Location....' and paste this in:

rtsp://cspanrm.fplive.net/cspan/project/c04/c04_dnc072704_obama.rm

Very low quality, but better than the transcript.
- jim 7-28-2004 6:12 pm [add a comment]

on the frontpage of the NYTimes website there is a "video" link to Tuesday's speeches.
- selma 7-28-2004 6:26 pm [add a comment]

"Out of this long political darkness a brighter day will come."
- tom moody 7-28-2004 6:45 pm [add a comment]

I got goosebumps watching last night, I swear...

"The number of people watching the first night of the convention on network TV follows the trend we have seen for many years - fewer people are tuning in to the conventions," Jeffrey Schneider, a spokesman for ABC News, said in contending that less network coverage was justified. "While some might try to make the chicken-and-egg argument - that more coverage would mean more viewers - that notion is contradicted by the evidence."

[huh?]
...
"Each of the three main broadcast networks showed steep declines in the number of their viewers: from 6 million viewers four years ago to 4.4 million on ABC; from 5.9 million viewers to 4.5 million on NBC; and from 5.2 million to 4.6 million on CBS. Viewers interested in more complete coverage clearly gravitated to the all-news cable channels, whose audiences increased to 4.7 million viewers in prime time, up from 2.7 million in 2000.

Dan Rather, the CBS anchorman, said in an interview that "I wish I could take a stronger argument to my bosses" for more coverage.

"But it's basically an infomercial,'' Mr. Rather continued. "The people who run the conventions have given the networks every reason to pass up the full coverage of the past by squeezing out any real news."

NYTimes, July 28.
- selma 7-28-2004 7:09 pm [add a comment]

i saw it on 13 and that included sitting through two racist sports analogy remarks by david brooks : "it was as good as tiger woods (mumbled something else... long drive ?)" and [paraphrased] "this isn't sports where you walk right in great, he will need a few years to prove himself'.


- bill 7-28-2004 7:38 pm [add a comment]

sorry i missed it. annoying to listen to it via this link. stop start stop start stop start. ugh.
- linda 7-28-2004 7:43 pm [add a comment]

BostonGlobe.com has a special section on the convention with good quality video of all the major speaches.
- Elisabeth (guest) 7-28-2004 11:34 pm [add a comment]

Here's an mms: URI you can cut and paste right into the 'Open Location...' menu in Windows Media Player:

mms://necn.mirror-image.com/media/VIDEO/072704_obama_9p.wmv

I extracted that to save you the run around, but you can also eventually get there from this bostonglobe.com convention video and text archive.

Much better quality than the Real stream linked above. Thanks Elisabeth.
- jim 7-29-2004 1:30 am [add a comment]

New Yorker profile on Obama from May of this year.
- jim 7-29-2004 7:57 pm [add a comment]