Well, I've spent another night staying up past 11:30 p.m. here in the Eastern Time Zone to listen to the speeches at the Democratic Convention. I tuned in after PBS's NewsHour with Jim Lehrer at 8 p.m. and watched fairly faithfully throughout the evening. I missed a couple of the shorter speeches. The speeches of ordinary folks such as Gloria Craven, former textile worker from North Carolina, and Lilly Ledbetter of Alabama, who sued Goodyear for wage discrimination, tended to be spoken in a monotone as these inexperienced speakers depended too much on the teleprompter. However, these women's experiences demonstrated the economic and judicial shortcomings of this Republican administration. Ledbetter discovered that Goodyear had paid comparable male colleagues more than she for years. She sued and won her case, but then the Supreme Court, in a 5-4 decision, struck down her suit on what seems to be a very narrow technicality. Interested in just what the Supreme Court decided this woman should have done? See Matthew Yglesias' post.
The highlight of the night was Hillary Clinton's speech, and I thought it was a good one. What a president she would make! But, then, I voted for Barack Obama, and I'm standing by my man. Clinton stood by Barack Obama, too, in this speech, and she's set the bar high for tomorrow night's key speeches by Joe Biden and Bill Clinton. Hope they don't disappoint.
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