More from the floor at Invesco

Emotions ran high at Invesco Field at Mile High during Barack Obama's speech to the more than 84,000 people in the audience and the world.Here are what a few of those people on the floor had to say about Obama, the speech, the night and the campaign.

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"He touched on all those things that make America great and all the things Americans want to see from education to smart energy to immigration policy to getting out of Iraq," said Debbie Marquez, a super delegate and national Democratic Committeewoman from Edwards.

She was speechless and amazed from the experience.

"I think the people are ready to take back our country and Barack Obama is our messenger."

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The president of the Colorado Young Democrats Crisanta Duran, 28, was smiling from ear to ear after the event though she had been in tears just moments before during Obama's rousing speech.

"We have so much work to do to make Barack Obama the next president of the United States," she said. "He understands the needs of working families." "As a labor lawyer working with families across the state I see them suffer and I see how hard it is to access quality education and healthcare and to pay for bare necessities," she said. "It becomes real."

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I feel really good about this country," said Bryan Gonzales, a delegate from Aspen. said while wiping tears away from his eyes. "I really really believe in this man because he is the one."

"He just cares, he's a team player and he's not a soloist," Gonzales said. "I think he's someone who is actually going to listen to people because he already has since his days working in South Chicago." 

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Eighteen-year-old Ben Taber, of Colorado Springs, called the night at Invesco Field  the most amazing experience of his life besides the birth of his little sister.

"This is a representation of the journey my life to this point has been on, to improve the lives of others," he said. "What he said about how we're in this not for a candidate but for us. We have to take responsibility."

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Bob Kihm, 53, of Centennial, and his daughter Sarah, 20, of Boulder, were both first-time delegates. They cheered together as Obama gave his speech.

"This message of change and bringing people together and unifying us just resonated with me," he said wearing a cowboy hat with an Obama sticker on the front. "It's because we've had eight years of division that this means so much."

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Rev. Willie Barrow has waited 45 years to see the result of Martin Luther King's dream come true.

She was there when he gave that historic speech and she was sitting in the front row at Invesco Field when Obama gave his acceptance speech to not just the convention goers but before thousands of others.

"I've never seen anything like this," said Barrow, 84."We have all never connected and we are connecting now."

Barrow, who worked as an advance person for King, believes things will change.

"Dr King was such a silent believer," she said. "I feel his spirit here rejoicing even though he was assassinated. I'm rejoicing with him and with Obama."

In addition, Barrow said the two men, Obama and Biden, represent family ideals and what she hopes is a return to family in this country.

"God is trying to tell us something," she said.

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When Barack Obama first met Margie Woods years ago, she was tired.

Tired of politics and ready to quit.

But meeting Obama changed all of that, said the Illinois super delegate and Will County Board member.

"I was ready to quite and I met him and he had that light, he cared about the real people," said Woods, who prays daily for the candidates safety.

Woods helped him get elected to the state house and the rest is history.

"The passion and love he shows for his family he extends to everyone else," she said.

Every time she hears him speak she feels warm and proud, excited about what he will bring to this country.

"It says in the bible that everything has a time and a place, this is the time today," she said.

People need for his hope, his inspiration and is leadership.

"So many poor people think that is all there is," she said. "But he gives our people hope when we see a young black man be all he can be."

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 "I never dreamed it," said Aurora Gonzales, a Texas delegate. "This is a freeing moment for blacks. I know I lived the discrimination too."

It was only two years ago that Gonzales decided at 74 to get involved in politics after waking up to a voice asking her to help create peace.

From that night to taking her seat in the Texas delegation she has watched Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama. She came to Denver as a "Hillary" and watched Obama's speech as his latest fan.

"It's awesome, unexplainable," she said.

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"Being able to see the glass ceiling break for minorities and women and to realize there is still an American dream for people has been inspiring," said Javier Herrera, a delegate from San Antonio Texas.

Herrera, 28, said it's because Obama makes himself available to people, that he listens that he has made that connection with people.

"He cares about people's concerns, those thoughts keep him up at night," he said.

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Julia Hicks of Westminster screamed out at the end of the speech.

"Thank you Doctor King," she shouted looking upward. "Thank God almighty free at last, free at last."

She was 14 when she saw King give his speech 45 years ago.

"This is what this country is all about," she said.

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Former Denver Mayor Federico Pena had a front row seat with the Colorado delegation Thursday. One of the reasons he endorsed Obama so early on is because he understood what he would go through being the first African-American to get this far in the race to become President. Pena was the first Latino mayor of Denver, he was elected in 1983.

"I understood the challenge he was going to go through," he said. "He talked tonight about the changing sentiment in the country and I felt that way when I ran in Denver."

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Barack Obama represents Americans today to Marcus Bush.

He is young. He is a man of color. He came from a single parent household. He struggled. And he's mixed race, just like the 20-year-old Bush from National City, California.

"I'm black and Mexican," he said. "It's part of the story, it's what America is, it's a melting pot. That's how it is and I identify with that."

But there's more than just that he said. 

Obama has lived abroad, he has lived in Hawaii and not the mainland, and he has worked with regular people to help them make their lives better.

"He appeals to us because he is a new generation leader, he does not use race, he doesn’t talk about race, it's just what it is," he said. "He just talks about change."

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For the first time in her life as a Native American and as a disabled woman Cinda Hughes feels like there is finally a presidential candidate who connects with her.

"He has really made a strong outreach to Indian Country and has a definite disability and Native American platform," she said from the floor of Invesco Field in her wheelchair. "He's the first candidate since Bobby Kennedy to visit an Indian reservation."

Obama's attention and focus on the disadvantaged of all colors and economic status, she said, has made a connection for her.

Hughes was born a quadriplegic and accesses to education, jobs and housing have always been difficult. Now, the Kiowa Tribe woman hopes that will change.

"We are all the underdogs and when we unite we are no longer the underdogs and there's an opportunity for all of us, in Indian Country we call it: be a part of the circle," she said.

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A heart shaped tattoo with Obama written in the middle of red glitter is glued to the forehead of 70-year-old Marti Schrank.The tattoo is temporary but the California delegate's commitment to Barack Obama is deep and everlasting."It's emotional for me because you see people here of all races, of all creeds, you see gays, you see lesbians. You don't see this at the Republican convention and that's why I am a democrat."

She wants out of the war and for healthcare to be available to all and she wants to show that this country is ready for a black Commander-in-Chief.

"There are still so many racists out there and we need to show them that a black person is not a threat," said, who is white.

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