I missed Al Gore, but then caught a pretty good speech.

I was mad that for the second straight night I missed a speaker, but I did catch Obama.

Excellent.

Some things I liked:

1) My favorite line – “Born into poverty? Pull yourself up by your own bootstraps — even if you don’t have boots. You’re on your own.” A lot of people love this argument and never realize how much they take place in life and influences in your life for granted as factors that can guide success

2) Second favorite line – “John McCain likes to say that he’ll follow bin Laden to the gates of hell — but he won’t even go to the cave where he lives.”

3) Joe Biden smiling like a guy playing two-on-two with Michael Jordan as his teammate.

The things I did not like:

1) Country music afterwards. Was Bruce Springsteen’s The Rising not good enough? Going with country music reeked of hillbilly pandering.

2) See #1

Great stuff. I will be covering next week’s Republican convention from my flat screen at my 51st street headquarters next week. I think it is going to be awesome. My predictions:

1) Rudy is the keynote speaker and will mention 9/11 911 times.

2) An Anti-gay male member of Congress will be found in a drug infused all male orgy.

3) John McCain will set the record for times uttering “My Friends” in a single speech (my friend and I plan on drinking every time he says it).