Wednesday

I’ve almost forgotten what day it is – this is a non-stop marathon of events. This is the first time I’ve spent in my room outside of sleeping at night. Wednesday was a lot of fun, except MY CAMERA DIED! Fortunately, I still got some good pictures, just not when Obama came out at the end along with Joe’s family.

Breakfast began with Gov. Easley and Kansas Gov. Kathleen Sebelius, both of which did a great job. Immediately after that we headed to Delegate Service Day and then immediately after that we headed downtown to hear Hillary speak to her delegates. Then immediately after that, they wanted us in our seats at the Pepsi Center by 3:15 for the nominations and roll call. Then after all of the convention proceedings end, the parties begin.

At Hillary’s event, Philadelphia Mayor Michael Nutter and Texas Delegate Barbara Rosenberg spoke before Hillary. It was awesome – so much so that I chose to cast my vote for Hillary. However, at the roll call of states, it never even got to us – we lost our doggone moment! I wish New York had passed until the end. Alphabetically, we are right after New York who is right after New Mexico. New Mexico deferred to Illinois who had passed earlier. This is most likely because New Mexico’s votes could have put Obama over the top. Illinois deferred to New York where Senator Clinton made her motion to nominate Obama by acclamation. That was great – a lot of fun and celebrating after it passed. It just stinks because we were standing up ready for our two minutes of fame!

It was right about then that my phone started to die, so I saved it up for one shot of Bill and a few of Joe Biden, which I got, barely. Bill did awesome, as usual. The Clintons are some of the best speakers in the country and I heard he did it with no teleprompter and few notes.

If I’ve said this before, I’ll say it again; take a look at Joe Biden. You’ll come away impressed. He is the most real, normal candidate I’ve seen in my lifetime and also one of the most accomplished public servants. Definitely the best choice Obama could have made for VP.

After it was done, we hit up the combined NC/Oklahoma party and then went to the “Voto Latino” party. Leave it up to Kansas Chris to try to get us into the VIP line. Then we went to a club called “the Church.” William and Chris loved it – me, not so much. It was complete with freaky house music and nasty girls with glo-sticks in their mouths. All for just $25!!! Absurd.

We just did our delegation photo, an App State group photo, and a 5th/12th District group photo. Soon it will be time to head to Invesco!