Fireworks!

There was much to like from Denver last night.

The audience in the stadium was authentically multi-cultural. It looked like the nation as it really is. The shoji-like screen backdrop was quietly elegant. The colors were warm.

And then they set off fireworks! So that's why last night's events were moved to the stadium! As well as to accomodate the evidently 85,000 plus crowd, who went through hell to be there -- standing in long lines, the mandatory hours early arrival, and then they couldn't leave once admitted, couldn't bring food or drink in with them. Yet I heard from the endless blithering of broadcasters that the crowd, inexplicably to them and their superior sense of entitlement, seemed to be having a good time all through the day as they gathered and waited for the main events to start.

Michelle Obama did look rather stunned a few times when they all gathered together after Senator Obama's acceptance speech. She and Mrs. Biden probably don't know each other at all yet. So I'm wondering about that. They will probably be spending a lot of time with each other in the next 60 and change days.

In the meantime, Mayor Nagin walked out of the CON's screening of Trouble The Water. You can read a transcript of what happened when Kimberly and Scott talked with the mayor here.

There evidently were many events during the demCON related to Katrina, but none of the chattering classes with national platforms mentioned them -- until Gustav finally hoved into their superior perview. I swear most of the bs around the Clintons and women that say they will vote for McCain because Senator Clinton was denied the nomination has been created by the chattering classes -- and rethugs, of course. Dirty Trix R reThugs.

Some of our friends are expecting the mandatory evacuation order to come on Saturday. One wonders if the state with get contra-flow vehicular traffic right THIS time ....

Vaquero is doing an hour on a music radio program this afternoon that wants to observe the 'anniversary.' He's not in a good mood about this. He doesn't want to talk about the words 'gumbo' and 'funky.' Which is just all that most people can come up with when they want to talk about New Orleans and her history and her culture -- particularly when they don't know what gumbo is, but of course, think they do. Kind of like the chattering classes who all know better than anyone what's what about everything, while missing what's right under their noses.

Also in the meantime sources such as the L.A. Times and The WaPo are reporting the reThugs are considering postponing their Minneapolis nomCON, if Gustav hits the Gulf and New Orleans hard.