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First word on Barack Obama's historic nomination acceptance speech from a bevy of celebrities in attendance was by all odds partisan: "It was first-class," Black Eyed Peas vocalizer Fergie aforesaid. "It was amazing."
"Incredible," said Jessica Alba simply, in front joining Fergie, Rosario Dawson, Wilmer Valderrama and Kerry Washington at a individual exit from Invesco Field. Alba was at the speech with husband Cash Warren.
Other celebrities in attendance included George Lucas with girlfriend Mellody Hardon and his girl, Forest Whitaker with married woman Keisha and Star Jones, and Daniel Dae Kim of "Lost," who posed for pictures with the Hawaii delegation.
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"What I leslie Townes Hope happens is the body politic doesn't leave the exultation and excitation that's been generated here," Kim said. "And I hope it turns into something that changes the world."
testament.i.am performed his speech-song "Yes We Can" with John Legend during the run up to Obama's speech. Susan Sarandon and Anne Hathaway sang along in the stands as Sheryl Crow performed "Change is Gonna Come," and crooner Michael McDonald prompted many a flag wave with his rendition of "America the Beautiful."
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Oprah Winfrey left Denver with the candidate she wanted, but reportedly without her eyelashes.
The talk-show horde said she was stirred to weeping by Obama's speech. And those must've been some serious tears.
"I cried my eyelashes off," she aforementioned in the bowels of Invesco Field, moments after Obama recognized the nomination for president before an estimated 84,000 people.
"I think it's the well-nigh powerful thing I take in ever experienced," she added, calling Obama's words "surpassing." On the 45th day of remembrance of Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I have a Dream Speech," Winfrey compared Obama's language to those of the civil-rights leader, Franklin Delano Roosevelt and Abraham Lincoln.
"He's not an African-American campaigner," she aforementioned. "He's a candidate for Americans."
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