A torch was passed last night

[hifiguy]

in a sense. This was our beloved, infuriating party's first convention since the passing of a singular statesman and Democratic icon, the one and only Edward M. Kennedy. No one, I mean no one, could raise the wigs and lift the rafters at any gathering of Democrats like Ted could. And maybe no one ever will again. But...

Bill Clinton is now the party's elder statesman and senior oratorical barn-burner. I'd bet he has another 15-20 good years in him and I would be willing to bet something really substantial that it will be to him (and eventually President Obama) that the party now turns to as it turned to Ted for all those decades. We will be in good hands, and I think that Ted would very much approve.