I will do my best not to abuse this space since the DNC is over, but a quick thought on Palin: way to seal the buzz, but they've only met two times before today.

And here those specifics come.

Tears are everywhere. Never in my life have I ever see anything like the reaction to Barack Obama setting foot on this stage. This is absolutely unbelievable, and the political event of my lifetime.

Some quick thoughts on the video: again, it's well made with good music, and it shows some clips of the Oregon speech, which makes you realize just how big the crowd is here tonight (Oregon was his second-biggest crowd in America, you'll remember).

As the crowd gets ready for Obama but gets Dick Durbin instead, they get a bit restless. Durbin gets ready to introduce Obama, as he did in Boston in 2004.

The song plays, but I have to think: duh! It's a prerequisite for the job, guys.

So-called "regular" people from important states are speaking in the lead-up to Obama, and the woman from Ohio surprisingly alludes to the underground e-mail smear campaign against Obama. It's an interesting tactic by the campaign, as they'd gone so much time before even acknowledging the smears before finally launching the "Fight the Smears" Web site. Since the launch, though, the site has rarely been mentioned. (Maybe that's because it seems like it's never been updated. The smears don't really change a great deal anymore.)

And he really takes in the crowd, looking around and flashing his signature smile. "I always dreamed I'd be standing in this place," he says (my first thought is that he's going to make a comment about running for the president in the primary, which seems sorely out of place).

As the crowd does the wave, someone ponders, "What's the record for the most number of times around? I think we can break it!"

A roar from comes from all around as Stevie Wonder is led to the stage. I don't quite think Wonder's mellow vibe goes well with the general "fired up" nature of the program thus far, but you can't really say any Stevie Wonder performance is a bad performance.