End of the gabfest

Before the impatient national eye turns from Denver to John McCain's VP pick, a quick wrap-up of the Democratic National Convention.

Wildly adoring crowds always make me nervous, but Barack Obama was in great form in accepting his party presidential nomination. If people don't know who he is now, they are living in a cave. He added substance to his poetry and, not to tempt the gods with hubris, looked presidential in the process.