We’ll be gone today, seeing Barack Obama deliver a speech at the Edward Jones Dome — where the NFL’s St. Louis Rams play. Should be a HUGE crowd and a monumental event. We’ll keep you posted!

KEEP THE SPARE CHANGE FOR REAL CHANGE FUNDRAISER GOING…

My favorite line of Barack Obama’s response to President Bush’s State of the Union address was, “A politics that puts Wall Street ahead of Main Street.” Check his response out for yourself…

What a brilliant, historic speech by Barack Obama. I remember looking into the eyes of the crowd — young, old, black, white, male, female — and seeing so much fire, so much energy, so much passion. It was tangible — even for me in my living room in Missouri. The speech was just so, so inspiring. It was incendiary, really. Because of speeches such as this one, the people of this country are finally coming together and rallying around change. Enjoy! And watch it a few times — it only gets better!

Is the judgement Hillary Clinton and John Edwards displayed in 2002 what we want BACK in the White House? Sometimes it seems like it…

I’m glad Barack Obama brought this up again, because people are starting to forget how bad Hillary Clinton’s judgment was back in 2002. Man, she botched that vote. Meanwhile, our main man was busy giving this speech. Talk about night and day — wow. One has gobs of foresight, the other is hurting in the department. I’ll let you guys guess who’s who. Anyways, here’s what Obama said today about Hill (via The Trail):

“I have been open about my reasons for opposing the war, but one of my opponents in this race, Senator Clinton, has tried, I believe, to rewrite history,” Obama said at a roundtable discussion on veterans issues with several military officers here. “She voted for a resolution called and I quote, ‘a resolution to authorize the use of the United States Armed Forces again Iraq,’ and now she is saying that she wasn’t really voting for war. She cast her vote after failing to read the National Intelligence Estimate on Iraq, ..which raised enough doubts for the majority of Democratic senators who read it that they voted against the war. We need accountability in our leaders. You can’t undo a vote for war just because a war stops being popular.”

He added, “This is not just about the past, it’s about the future. Voters need to judge us on the judgments we’ve made and the lessons we’ve learned. Sen. Clinton has not said her vote was a mistake, she’s simply blamed the civilian and military leader that carried out the policies she authorized. If you don’t know why Iraq met the threshold for war, how can she know what that threshold will be in the future? When I’m president, the buck will stop with the Oval Office.

Ouch. Well played, sir. This already cost Dems one election; will it cost us another one?

Watch the speech that Yahoo!’s John Nichols says “Obama reaches the mountaintop” with…