History

Remember when we were wishing for the primary season to be over and that the Dems would finally, finally settle on a candidate?

Well, they have.

"DENVER — Sen. Barack Obama was nominated by his party on Wednesday to be the 44th president of the United States, becoming the first African-American to receive a major party nomination.
With a unanimous vote, the freshman senator from Illinois defeated the first family of Democratic Party politics with a call for a fundamentally new course in politics.
It brought to an end an often-bitter two-year political struggle for the nomination with Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, who, standing on a packed convention floor electric with anticipation, moved to halt the roll call in progress so that the convention could nominate Obama by acclamation."
Adam Nagouney, NYT

I spent the evening cooking dinner, trying to get my kids to eat, cleaning up dinner, getting their DVD started, taking out the garbage, and putting them to bed. My wife was working her second job until after the kids were in bed. Just an average day for us, but a very significant day in American history.

I didn't see any of the speeches, but heard a little today on NPR. In order to keep from clogging the blog with video boxes, I'll just put one up. Bill Clinton was very good, from what I heard. John Kerry got rave reviews from the left, don't know how he sounded to others. And if you get a chance to see Beau Biden's short intro to his dad's speech, that's good too. But the one I was most interested in was Joe Biden's. Here it is.