Obama Makes Surprise Appearance

Joe Biden's wife Jill introduced the nominee as "a very special surprise guest."

The crowd responded as you'd expect...leaping to their feet with a loud cheer as they have many times tonight.

Obama acknowledged the whole Biden clan and said he was "proud" to have the Delaware Senator on board. He also praised the speeches given so far by his wife and both Clintons, saying of his onetime primary rival's performance, "if I'm not mistaken, Hillary Clinton rocked the house last night."

Obama then explained tomorrow's change of venue from the Pepsi Center to Invesco Mile High stadium. He said the campaign is premised on the idea that "change in America doesn't start from the top down, it starts from the bottom up" and said they wanted "make sure that everybody who wants to come can join in the party and join in the effort to take America back."

("Everybody" is a bit of an overstatement; according to DemConWatch the Obama campaign burned through the 60,000 tickets allotted to ordinary Coloradans in less than 24 hours. So it's more of a metaphorical everybody. But it's a grand gesture nonetheless.)

-- Evie Stone

10:55 PM ET | 08-27-2008 | permalink

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