The Convention

Has it all felt just a little too perfect to anyone else?

Don't get me wrong. I've enjoyed the pieces of the DNC that we've watched this week, and I've verged on "emotional" a time or two during a speech or introduction. Bo Biden - who I couldn't help comparing to Chip Esten from "Who's Line" - gave a particularly nice intro for his father.

And I'm confident Obama's speech has the chance to be "semi-old-school-rapper-makes-a -video" worthy once again (yes, it can).

But the staging, the speech-reading by some, and the goofy crowd chants and silly attacks on anything un-Liberal was tiring. I couldn't imagine sitting through the entire broadcast. And don't get me started on the "Hi, I'm Barack Obama, and I happened upon some nice folks' home in Kansas City (or St. Louis, or Kansas City) to watch TV and say hello via satellite."

Joe Biden was interesting, and I'm becoming convinced that he knows as much about US-Foreign policy as anyone not named Leo McGarry.

I'm more confident than ever that Bill Clinton is one of the best communicators of our (well, my dad's) generation. He's as likeable a speaker as I've ever seen. If he ripped on the Republicans I don't remember it, and if he's not truly an Obama fan he hid it perfectly. He had a couple pieces of paper with notes, but we never saw him look at them. He didn't read the teleprompter, and he seemingly looked at each of the 16,000 people in the audience individually at some point during his speech.





I'm looking forward to seeing how the RNC responds with their own convention, and who they'll be able to trot up their to compete against Billary and the Obama kiddos. My fingers are crossed for McCain's mom.