Night One

Gee, Andrew Sullivan really liked it. I thought the whole thing was a bit on the banal side, albeit competently so, which I guess is what you're going for at an event like this, but nothing really to write home about. I guess I'm not really interested in pretending that I know what kind of impact decision x or decision y at the convention will have on American politics. And I'm really not interested in the case against George W. Bush, whose broad outlines are, shall we say, something I'm quite familiar with. I'd like to get a sense of where this party is headed after a win or after a lose, but a convention is deliberately designed to cover up the sort of internal tensions that could help a person figure it out. Should be headed to a few peripheral events over the next few days that should shed some light on the situation.