Watching the Convention…

Well, some of it. I think those things are always too long, especially with an audience that cheers every mention of the candidate's name and any sentence about them winning. Cutting down (or out) a few speeches would have eliminated repetition, made the rest of the evening more effective and gotten the star of the night — Joseph Robinette Biden — on in prime time for the east coast.

But I listened to Biden and to Shawn Fain (president of the United Automobile Workers), Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Hillary Clinton, Rep. Jamie Raskin, the ladies who talked about their lives with a lack of Reproductive Rights, Gov. Andy Beshear and Senator Raphael Warnock and I thought they were all real good. I liked the general positivity — no calls for Mass Deportation that I heard — and all the reminders of what this country is all about. Maybe if I hadn't muted the speeches I muted, I would have come away with a different impression.

And maybe I missed the part where Biden declared, as Trump told us he would, "I want my presidency back. I want another chance to debate Trump. I want another chance!" I'll check YouTube and see if that clip's there. Trump couldn't have been wrong about that, could he?