Convention.

8-29-08 VERMONT: WOW! Quite a speech. I haven't been political on the blog for a while. Everything was OK except for the Repubs sniping at Obama, but I was starting to get that old swift-boat feeling. What a job Obama did last night. He hit all the points, answered all the innuendos, met all the charges, beat back all the snide criticisms, and especially laid to rest the experience question. As I have said before, doing the wrong things over and over for thirty years is experience, of a sort, but shows lack of judgement and lack of the ability to learn from mistakes. Experience is only important if you profit from it. More important is having good judgement in the first place. Obama has been right of Iraq and right on Afghanistan, and McCain was wrong on both and wrong on the economy and wrong on taxes and wrong on the climate and wrong on energy, for starters.

What a show it was! That stadium was packed, even the seats with no view. Now let's see how many show up for McBush's acceptance speech. It's good he has all those houses, there will be someplace for him to go after election day.

The Clintons said all the right things, said them with enthusiasm and promised to work for the campaign and Obama's election. I hope they meant it. Biden's acceptance was a bit tepid, but he'll warm up.

Summer is over. Tomorrow we go back to Short Hills.

New blooms: turtle head.