Sen. Barack Obama laid out his plan to lead the country into an era of change as he accepted the Democratic presidential nomination Thursday night, securing his place in history as the first African-American to lead a major party ticket. DENVER, Colorado: Barack Obama accepted the Democratic nomination for president Thursday in a speech that attacked John McCain and George W. Bush, laid out an ambitious agenda for an Obama administration and called on Americans to unite around common beliefs. He rallied a crowd of tens of thousands at Invesco Field by urging them to throw the Republicans out of the White House in November."Next week, in Minnesota, the same party that brought you two terms of George Bush and Dick Cheney will ask this country for a third," he said, drawing some boos from the crowd. "And we are here because we love this country too much to let the next four years look just like the last eight. On November 4, we must stand up and say: 'Eight is enough,' " Obama said, prompting chants of "Eight is enough!" The Democratic nominee criticized McCain as being out of touch with the lives of ordinary Americans, using his opponent's own words against him. "He said that our economy has made 'great progress' under this president. He said that the fundamentals of the economy are strong. And when one of his chief advisers -- the man who wrote his economic plan -- was talking about the anxiety Americans are feeling, he said that we were just suffering from a 'mental recession,' and that we've become, and I quote, 'a nation of whiners,' " Obama said, eliciting more boos from the crowd. He rejected the idea, citing "proud autoworkers" and "military families" before delivering the coup de grace: "Now, I don't believe that Sen. McCain doesn't care what's going on in the lives of Americans. I just think he doesn't know."source:read more cnn,
