We cats say, wow! What a convention. Were you able to tell, watching last night, that the venue had been changed? We couldn't. The evening was smooth, efficient and snafu-free. We don't know who was in charge of this gig's logistics, but they clearly were strange visitors from another planet with powers and abilities far beyond those of mortal men.
So now that we're digesting this morning's jobs report, here are some observations about Day Three.
The convention flip-flop that's just getting noticed — Republicans carped incessantly in Tampa about what's wrong with America and ignored the military; in Charlotte, we Democrats had veterans everywhere, declared "Never bet against America" and proudly flexed our foreign policy muscles. They have become us and we have become them.
The tweets have it — We cats don't tweet (we'd rather snack on birds than sound like them), but we're pleased to hear that President Obama cleaned Willard's clock in the Twitterverse.
John Kerry — What a terrific speech our future Secretary of State gave. "Ask Osama bin Laden if he's better off now than he was four years ago." But we agree with the famous quitter from Alaska. Anyone is diminished by mentioning her name.
Cardinal Timothy Dolan — Who invited him?
John Lewis, again — The civil rights legend's moving speech (Republican voter suppression laws are "not right, not fair, not just") had us cats wondering: Who would have thought that the election of the nation's first African-American President would lead to a rolling back of the Voting Rights Act?
Jennifer Granholm — Don't let anyone tell you Canadians are laid-back folks. As the former Michigan Governor spun around the podium, pointing to various delegations and calling out the numbers of jobs the President has created in each state, all we cats could think of was, "I'll have what she's having."
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