Democratic Convention, Day 3: Wow!

Message delivered? That the Obama Camp is a quick study. (Compare Wednesday night's production to Monday night's.) It's a good message if you're marketing an inexperienced candidate.
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DENVER -- I'm still not thrilled with the way these extravaganzas open. But I'm diggin' the way they close. Here is my DNC scorecard for Day 3.

Did they use compelling storytelling? Bill Clinton and Beau Biden (the Attorney General of Delaware and Joe Biden's son) brilliantly used words to paint pictures -- one man illustrating the struggles of a nation for the past eight years, the other illustrating the heartbreaking and heroic struggles of Joe Biden's family. Steven Spielberg and Tom Hanks contributed a short film that took us inside the lives of modern military veterans.

Did the show have a theme? Joe Biden nearly set a Guinness World Record by cramming the word "change" at least 14 times into a three-minute stretch of his acceptance speech.

Was there a big surprise? At a typical North American International Auto Show, a big surprise might be a new-model truck falling from the sky onto the main stage. That's essentially what Barack Obama did on Wednesday night, dropping in unannounced after Biden's speech to electrify the Pepsi Center. It was such a deft move, Obama was able to grab contol of the Democratic Party from the Clintons and put it right in the palm of his hand. Harry Houdini couldn't have done it any better.

Did they introduce anything new and exciting? Barack Obama. He looked and sounded like no one else on the stage. He stepped triumphantly into history on Wednesday night, becoming the first black American to win a major party presidential nomination.

Message delivered: That the Obama Camp is a quick study. (Compare Wednesday night's production to Monday night's.) It's a good message if you're marketing an inexperienced candidate.

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