MCCASKILL EXPLAINS WHY CHANGE IS ACTUALLY NEEDED.

I'm watching the convention on C-Span from my couch in D.C. like a good blogger (no Cheetos though) and from my perspective Claire McCaskill is knocking this out of the park. Rather than vague statements about how Obama is, like, totally awesome, she's saying McCain would be a bad president. Doesn't sound like much, but no one else is doing it.

"Change" as a message is meaningless without any argument about, you know, why we need it. McCaskill, unlike so many other people out there tonight, is making that argument and arguing that McCain represents part of the problem, not the solution. It's not an artful speech or particularly well delivered, but it actually makes sense logically, and that makes up for a lot.

--Sam Boyd