The View from the Couch: The Ballpark

With all this hitting-it-out-of-the-ballpark language being used at the Democratic Convention, at least tonight Barack Obama will be in a ballpark, Mile High Stadium, actually a football field, mostly. It is now called the Invesco Field at Mile High, but Invesco probably won't get the product placement bounce Pepsi did for their convention center. Bruce Springsteen will be the opening act at Invesco, so it will be the Boss and the One. Speaking of one, the other one, Hillary Clinton that is, during her oration for Obama she said she was a "proud mother," a "proud Senator from New York," a proud this and that, but not a "proud wife." Hillary is looking as youthful as Mrs. McCain. Botox might be the fountain of youth. Her speech was fine, finely tuned on a razor blade, full of praise of herself and shouts to support Obama. Mrs. Obama's face was a study during the cutaways to her during Hillary's speech: Michelle Obama can hide her feelings, but not completely. It was a display of tense mixed emotions. Her own speech was, in many ways, overwhelming. Juan Williams, another NPR turncoat on Fox News, couldn't suppress his emotions. I have never seen him so overcome. It took a while for him to toe the Fox line. But his point was undeniable. Unbelievable, he said. A black woman from the south side of Chicago on the way to become the First Lady. It is as incredible as a man with the middle name of Hussein becoming the President.