Obama gana la nominación

Como ya se esperaba -y se sabía- Barack Obama y Joe Biden serán la combinación que el Partido Demócrata presentará en las elecciones de noviembre.

Hillary Clinton suspende el voto y pone a Obama a la cabeza:



“With eyes firmly fixed on the future in the spirit of unity, with the goal of victory, with faith in our party and country, let’s declare together in one voice, right here and right now, that Barack Obama is our candidate and he will be our president. I move that Senator Barack Obama of Illinois be selected by this convention by acclamation as the nominee of the Democratic Party for president of the United States.”

El voto de los delegados demócratas (roll-call vote) ayer por la tarde fue transmitido por primera vez en la televisión. Como estaba planeado, a las 4:47 p.m., Hillary, quien tenía poco más de 200 votos (Obama tenía más de 1000), y acababa de recibir el voto de la delegación por Nueva York, solicitó poner a Obama a la cabeza y que fuera declarado el candidato por aclamación.
Se suspendió la votación y se declaró ganador por aclamación a Barack Obama, como en película cursi, comenzó la música "people of the world join hands" y todos bailaron...

Adam Nagourney narra lo que sucedió ayer en la Convención en Obama Wins Nomination; Biden and Bill Clinton Rally Party:
...Making the moment even more striking was the historical nature of Mrs. Clinton’s candidacy. She was the third woman whose name has been entered as a candidate for president at a major party convention. As she moved to end the roll-call vote, some women in the hall could be seen wiping tears from their eyes.
The presidential candidate is typically an absent figure during the first few days of a convention. In this case, Mr. Obama’s vacuum was filled by the Clintons and the tribute paid to the party to Mr. Kennedy on Monday night. What has taken place over the past two days might have politically necessary and even helpful, but it did not go far in helping Mr. Obama achieve some of the critical goals of this convention.
As a result, he is under considerable pressure Thursday night to use this speech in an ambitious setting, a football stadium, to present a fuller picture of himself, Americans who might have doubts about whether he is ready to be president, and begin presenting a picture of what he would do in the White House. For Mr. Obama, the final appearance is not the coda to a convention; in many ways, it may prove to be his entire convention.
Mr. Obama, who arrived in Denver just after 3 p.m., was at his hotel in downtown Denver with his wife and daughters when he learned that he had been nominated by acclamation.

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