Michelle O. seems to have received glowing reviews from most of the conventional-wisdom-meisters, so maybe I was wrong in my assessment from last night.
I tried out my theory (that she should have been even more saccharine and family-oriented) on some journalistic colleagues at an after party. Most saw my point, in an ironic, counter-intuitive, Slate-ish kind of way (lo and behold: It was at a Slate party!). One general point I was trying to address was that liberals tend to hate apple-pie sentimentality. But the point of a convention isn't to appeal to liberals, so it doesn't matter a whit what liberals thought. It matters what average working-class parents thought. Period.
Anyway, the actual problem with last night was that, as far as I could see, the name George W. Bush wasn't even mentioned. What is that about? That better change quickly and dramatically.
