Convention Night 1

Bloomberg-speech too long. Too much local history. Grade: C+

Frist-Didn't see. Too bad there was no floorfight.

Anthem-traditional approach to it. The 13 year old didn't have the best voice but its tough to sing. grade: B

Prayer-I'm not horribly worked up over this. I know some people view this as the end of civilization but we would expect our heads of state to go to official funerals and there is a Red Mass every year in Washington. That having been said the prayer could have been offensive, but I didn't see it. grade: n/a

Comedy sketch-This was even less funny than the last year of SNL. ouch. They just tried too hard. grade: F

Silver-Standard speech written by a White House flack. Good dig at those folks I call "Rights Heads" (Amnesty et al.) The delivery was terrible and there was way too much shouting which made the speech a little scary. grade: B-

Graham-Nice 2 Americas dig. Otherwise it was just plain bland. grade: C

McCain-Nice FDR quote, nice deference to him. Very effective speech. France, Moore digs were a bit much. The diplomacy dig was good. This speech was written by Noonan (I think she's a babe, but I've got problems).
grade: B+

9/11 tribute- Over the top. "These people weren't made heroes, they had virtue all along" The way it was uttered, I thought they should be canonized. Amazing Grace is always beautiful. grade: B-

Giuliani-best speaker of night (not the best speech) but the content was offensive when it wasn't the standard 9/11 speech. McCain's speech was better and I tend to disagree with him more. Highlights: War on Germany, Arafat, Italy, those namby pamby European cheese-eating surrender monkeys. Two Americas joke with flip flop joke is lethal for Kerry. grade: B

Overall: The Republicans kicked Kerry's ass tonight. This hurts him and keeps him from capitalizing on Bush's WTF (what the ^%#^@!) comment he made earlier in the day. grade: B