You have to see Barack Obama's acceptance speech

Even if you saw it once, it's worth seeing again and again. Click here to watch Barack Obama's acceptance speech. Barack spoke to an audience of 84,000 at Mile High Stadium and laid out the winning strategy for our whole election.

Here's a one-line email a UAPA member wrote to us within minutes after hearing the speech:

"My one little Obama yard sign seemed too insignificant tonight compared to that magnificent speech!! 'Hope the city is covered in them before Saturday evening."

The speech was at once a brilliant political strategy and a guide for our future.

He took the air out of the three issues that have fueled the right/left divide for a generation: abortion, gun rights and gay marriage. Even on these most contentious issues, Barack has found the common ground and asked both his own party and the Republicans to "cast off the worn-out ideas":

"America, our work will not be easy. The challenges we face require tough choices. And Democrats, as well as Republicans, will need to cast off the worn-out ideas and politics of the past, for part of what has been lost these past eight years can't just be measured by lost wages or bigger trade deficits. What has also been lost is our sense of common purpose, and that's what we have to restore.

We may not agree on abortion, but surely we can agree on reducing the number of unwanted pregnancies in this country.

The -- the reality of gun ownership may be different for hunters in rural Ohio than they are for those plagued by gang violence in Cleveland, but don't tell me we can't uphold the Second Amendment while keeping AK-47s out of the hands of criminals.

I know there are differences on same-sex marriage, but surely we can agree that our gay and lesbian brothers and sisters deserve to visit the person they love in a hospital and to live lives free of discrimination."

He attacked John McCain at what some consider his strongest asset: his judgement on the most critical issues of our time.

He asked his own party to change the way they think about these problems.