After wending my way through an absolute crush at the security checkpoint for the Pepsi Center, and just as I had settled into the Blogger Lounge, the cell phone rang - and it was my blogging buddy David Jones, who needed his credential. So I limped back downstairs, found him out in the unwashed masses beyond the security fence, and gave him his credential. Then back through the line, which if anything had grown larger and denser.

This is my excuse for not live-blogging the speeches of Sebelius and others. Now Ted Strickland is on, apparently as the introduction for Hillary Clinton.

Apparently there is a family sitting at a kitchen table in Ohio, worried that DHL is eliminating their job and concerned for their son or daughter who is in Iraq. As these people have sleepless nights, John McCain is sleeping soundly. This apparently represents a moral failing on his part. (I had disturbed sleep last night, so I guess I don’t have to feel guilty.)

Also, McCain is bad because he thinks the fundamentals of the economy are strong, and has never been part of the middle class.

When Strickland was a little boy, he went to a one-room schoolhouse. And when they made mistakes on their homework, they had to correct them. John McCain doesn’t think there are any mistakes to amend, so presumably he would have flunked out of Strickland’s one-room educational system. McCain’s policies are stuck in the past, and will take America backwards.

Stuck in the past trade agreements are forcing people with high skills to take jobs stocking freezers at the grocery store. Also stuck in the past is believing that we need oil and can’t do everything with solar and wind. And we’re sending all our money to Iraq, while our schools and bridges crumble.

George Bush was born on third base, and thought he hit a triple. I’m pretty sure someone has said that before. But Bush was also born on third base, and then stole second. This is apparently well-received; I’m missing the decoder ring that would make sense of it.

We can’t afford the status quo. We need change. Barack Obama will bring us the change we need. (Behind me a blogger who apparently missed out on his Koolaid ration starts chanting “Change! Hope! Change!” in a somewhat sarcastic tone of voice.) Barack Obama will give a $1000 tax refund to middle-class families. He will create 5,000,000 green-collar jobs. In Barack Obama’s America, people will be able to get loans for college and to start small businesses.

We need Barack Obama! OK, now Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick will speak. Guess HE’s going to introduce Hillary.