Bill Clinton showed up at the DNC last night carrying a big stick, and he used it to do some ass whupp’n. In what’s being called a virtuoso performance and covering the gamut of conservative zombie lies and delusions, the 42nd President managed to speak eloquently and at times with soaring rhetoric, yet minced few words and pulled no punches. Full speech below: [Read more…]

There were some real barn-burners at the DNC last night, one of several is below the fold. This one is the First Lady, Michelle Obama, and it includes the lead in from non professional regular mom Elaine Brye; the real America, the real middle class, it was a theme that ran throughout the evening and it ran well. MObama’s speech is being judged the best ever delivered by a first lady, and one of the things that made it so good was it’s all true, nothing forced, nothing spun. Oh, and as a superficial male obsessed with my own insecurities and the body shaping it evolved into over time, I have to say, the First Lady may have been hitting the gym, real hard, because she looks a little bit buff. [Read more…]