Joe Biden's Speech - As it happens

• Begins with how he'd always dreamed standing in Mile High Stadium, only with a Denver Bronco. Good sense of humor, +2.
• Offers tribute to those that risk their lives making ours better. Touches many - +3.
• Looks EXTREMELY comfortable, +5.
• Makes very strong and concise point telling the public that Barack and hiself are there to represent the people above all, and names several professions/types of people. Ultimately successful. +6.
• Short, consise, to the point speech. A rarity in the political arena, and a long ways away from the longwinded Bill Clinton. +3.
• Though comfortable, he seems to jump in his thoughts a little too much. You could tell the speech was improvised (+2) but he's not all that great at it (-3.) Overall -1.
• View from the other side - "Yeah. It's just a lot of fluff talk." -3.

Score for Joe Biden = 11 x Length of Obama's speech/7 = Obama didn't speak yet.

More than just a town

Before I get into the meat of my post, (sorry vegetarians, maybe I should say the asparagus of my post) I want you to take a look at Michelles blog, at this post. I'm a fan of How I Met Your Mother, and I'm semi-familiar to Les Mis, so it's all good. I just saw a member of the Eisenhower family give a speech at the Democratic National Convention. Let's repeat that again. I just saw a member of the Eisenhower family give a speech at the Democratic National Convention. Why is this such a problem? This is like a paradox. This is like telling me I need to dry myself off with a hose. It's like telling me to brush my dog with yarn. ITS LIKE TELLING CHIARA TO...actually, idk what, and I don't feel like being mean ;-). She's a republican, as is the family, most notably the grandfather, who was the president. Unity is a beautiful thing, as you can see American flags pumping in the air, in rythm to "YES WE CAN!" and "SI SE PUEDE" (Yes they can - kind of a modified yes we can - it carries the same meaning.) Now Bruce Springsteen songs are blasting. This is something we'll talk about when we're 80. "Where were you when Barack accepted the nomination, in front of a crowd of nearly 100,000?"