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Will Democrats ever stop loving Bill Clinton?  We keep forgiving him over and over again for all sorts of stuff. Why do we do that?  I mean, he did some crappy stuff over this past year and yet the roars and cheers keep coming.

Everyone is loving the Bill Clinton speech.  Pundits, bloggers, the audience.  Even Andrew Sullivan!  It’s good to remind us that there was a time when America wasn’t hated around the world.

Hey, here it comes: Barak Obama is ready to lead America.

Nice touch on the “place called hope.”

Clinton did what he needed to do by reminding people that we’ve been through the “no experience” charge before. Was it enough to convince those that needed convincing.  Who knows?

I’m torn between my inappropriate girl crush on Rachel Maddow and my absolute annoyance at Luke Russert.  So it’s on to PBS for the rest of the night.

And again, I missed one of the best speeches of the evening.  Jeez, John Kerry — would you warn me when you are going to be good?  I will have to watch it online later tonight.   I either need to leave work earlier or think about spending the night there so I don’t waste the evening waiting for the bus that never comes.  Why do these politicians give the speeches they should have given when it mattered.  First Hillary last night and now Kerry tonight (you can throw Gore into that group as well). Do you suddenly grow a pair after you’ve run and lost?  What’s up with that?

It’s taking Biden a while to get warmed up (and oops on that Freudian slip) but now he’s hitting a stride. Kinda.  No, no … now he’s really going.

Oiks … “absymal” “catastrophic failure” … these are strong, strong words from Biden against the Bush foreign policy and by extension, John McCain.

Change is the theme … get it?  Because if you didn’t get it tonight, you are going to get hammered with it tomorrow.

I can’t wait for the vice presidential debate.  Biden is going to slaughter the opponent.

Obama is throwing lots of love to Hillary.  Are the PUMAs really stilll a viable voice of dissent?  Because what looked like weakness and ceding of the limelight to the Clintons actually now looks like mastery of diplomacy and harnessing of their star power to the greater cause.

PBS commentators just keep reminding us of how old they are.  Jim Lehrer making comments about the “youthful” David Brooks (who is frankly not that young) just makes them seem older than even John McCain.  And that’s not an easy claim to make.