Iowa Democrats a 'mile high' over Obama's speech to DNC (Waterloo-Cedar Falls Courier) DENVER --- They waited for hours. But when Barack Obama finally arrived at Invesco Field in Denver Thursday night and accepted the Democratic presidential nomination --- an historic first for a black American --- he gave a rousing speech that sent many in the crowd of 84,000 to their feet and at least one, Molly Grady, 19, from Marshalltown, Iowa, to tears. |