Barack Obama overcame huge underdog odds to score a surprising victory in the Democratic Party presidential primary battle due in no small measure to brilliant oratorical skills and a sagacious precinct captain's political instincts.

During a political period shaped by that fascinating new creature, the Internet, the Illinois senator showed that he has the finesse and instinct to frame issues and bring the successful American mainstream into the fold in the tradition of three of the Democratic Party's most brilliant politicians.

Those skills took Franklin Delano Roosevelt, John Fitzgerald Kennedy and William Jefferson Clinton to the presidency and Obama proved tonight that he is part of that tradition.

In this new Internet era of the early twenty-first century the word "framing" has become of primary significance as shorthand for dotting the I's and crossing the T's of voters in search of electoral success.  Tonight Barack Obama demonstrated before a shouting throng of 75,000 in Denver and a huge audience of viewers throughout the world his thorough mastery of political delivery.