Especially as the delivery went during the portions on Iraq.  A key difference between Kerry and Obama that I picked up on was that Kerry had to continuously insist that he was strong enough to be president.  It came across as whiny and weak for Kerry.  Obama went straight at it, and the delivery allowed him to assume away McCain's bullshit narrative ("Of course he's wrong and I'm right, you asshats").

That's where being a good orator matters.

He framed the election very well, and the funny thing is it turns out that the one person in Denver who knew how to hit McCain in a solid way turned out to be...Obama.

I liked the economics portions, especially hitting the Reps on supply-side economics and their Protestant work ethic horseshit:

For over two decades, he's subscribed to that old, discredited Republican philosophy - give more and more to those with the most and hope that prosperity trickles down to everyone else. In Washington, they call this the Ownership Society, but what it really means is - you're on your own. Out of work? Tough luck. No health care? The market will fix it. Born into poverty? Pull yourself up by your own bootstraps - even if you don't have boots. You're on your own.

Certainly it could have been a better speech.  But I think it probably won him some votes.  On the whole, I think we got out of this convention more than what we needed to get out of it.

Conservatives want live babies so they can raise them to be dead soldiers. - George Carlin