By The River

I felt a lot better about the election last night after watching Bill Clinton's wonderful speech endorsing Barack Obama for President. Anyone Democrat who watched that speech was transported back to the 1990s and the best of Bill Clinton's eight years in the White House. I'm listening to it again today on The New York Times website, and it's just as good. My favorite line: "People the world over have always been more impressed by the power of our example than the example of our power." That's the same point author Ron Suskind makes in his new book, "The Way of the World," that America will only reclaim its position in the world by returning to its ideals and repudiating the Bush-Cheney torture regime.

Hillary's speech Tuesday night was also good, but she's never been the speaker her husband is. I still worry that her attacks on Obama during the primary campaign will help John McCain, but their speeches in Denver went a long way to repairing that damage.