Democrats reject Barack Obama for Dick van Patten

Hilarious!
I am glad so far people have taken this post as it was intended. I was worried, when I wrote it, that a registered Democrat would come and correct me!
As it happens, I did watch Sen. Obama’s full speech. Since the convention coverage was way longer, the PBS commentary at the end was cut short in favour of Vincent Price in The Last Man on Earth.

You are right. Judge Bob, I watched Sen. Obama’s speech in full and there did seem to be a lot of bullish, war-like rhetoric for someone who proclaims himself anti-war. The entire Russian–Georgian situation has exposed a great deal of ignorance given Sens. Obama’s and Biden’s beliefs in their internationalism. Georgia is a US customer of arms and Russia has been in South Ossetia since around the time President Clinton took office (where was the fighting talk then?); plus 90 per cent of South Ossetians have Russian nationality. I do not condone what Russia has done in stepping up its presence and attacking Georgia, but the way politicians there have made out it is a simple matter of invasion is incorrect. (Sec. Rice, far more an expert on Russian affairs than any of us will ever be in our lifetimes, has not gone so far as to demand a Russian pull-out; just a return to a status quo ante.)
An Iraqi troop pull-out will happen regardless of who gets in because the PM Maliki has asked for it, weeks before Sen. Obama’s visit, and the US is currently there at the request of an ally and sovereign government (never mind how they got in; I am stating the present diplomatic arrangement).
Sen. Obama has essentially revealed that it will be business as usual under him as far as foreign policy goes with an evolutionary policy (though admittedly he has been clearer than Sen. McCain, struggling to differentiate himself, in anunciating this); as to domestic and economic policy, I believe there will be differences in the US’s favour as he has so far stated, but just how far he will go in the face of technocratic donors to the Democratic Party remains a moot point. One good policy I have heard is the tax credits for companies that opt to remain onshore, but how easy will it be for a company to prove that to the IRS?
His strength on the night was acknowledging problems with the economy. McCain has, too, but he wishes to leave it to market forces to correct. I am a Keynesian (not ideally, but pragmatically) so naturally I am inclined against McCain on his proposal, but the American people need to make a choice as to which method they see is better.
And President Bush himself talked about alternative energies in a recent State of the Union address, and some US automakers have made headway on that front since—so even on that point, is Sen. Obama a fresh thinker, or is he taking the best rhetoric of the last eight years and restating it in a new and younger package?