Probably the most exciting part of the evening was when Hilary came on the floor with the New York delegation to stop the roll call vote and call for the unanimous nomination of Barack Obama. I thought the roof was going to come down! There were no "Hilary" groups versus "Obama" groups as some had speculated - there was unity! We are mocing forward with a wonderful candidate and a unified party.
Wow! The speeches were even more electrifying tonight! Bill Clinton can still get a crowd going and the spirit of this crowd was really high tonight! They loved him and my biggest fear was that everyone was going to rise up and yell "eight more years" and mean Bill Clinton.
I also never heard John Kerry deliver a better speech! Everyone kept thinking, "Was he that eloquent four years ago?"
Joe Byden gave a good speech and but was a little overshadowed by the introductory speech given by his son Beau. Beau is the Attorney General of Deleware and is a member of a Reserve Troop that is being called up and he is leaving for Iraq soon. As a young child, he and his brother were injured in a car accident that killed their mother and baby sister. He told of his father's devotion to he and his brother, a story many of you have already read about. Everyone was emotional after hearing from him.
By now all of you know that most of the Pepsi Center was totally surprised at the entrance of Barack Obama, following Joe Biden's speech. The place went nuts! But, I want to tell you how much technology has entered the arena of political conventions. I guess one of the TV stations got the information that Obama had landed in Denver and was on his way to the Pepsi Center. Susan Levine, who was sitting with me got a text message from her husband telling her this, and we passed the information on to the people sitting around us. We even told Tom Brokow who was in the NBC booth above us. He said he knew - of course he did! But the crowd didn't and I almost wished that technology did not allow us to get information that easily as to ruin good surprises!
Joe Byden hosted a great party for the guests of the DNC tonight and after not eating all day in order to get decent seats in the arena, we dove in the food, which was quite good. There was a band and dancing and an open bar, but we stayed for a short time as we had just about run out of energy.
Tomorrow night we head to the football stadium with 70,000 people who are part of the convention or who have won a polace in the Denver lottery. There are sure to be lots of surprises.
Marshall and I at the Convention - Judi with a "bad hair" day with no time for "primping"!
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