GT12's Mark Warner

OK, not great. If you listened, he did hit home the BHO theme quoted above in our masthead (or whatever) and demonstrated the message that gets Dems elected in Red states. Not that that makes for a great Keynote Speech.

TPM writes:

...wasn't really the keynote speech of the convention at all. It was the warm-up to the main event of the evening, ...
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Warner, it's true, didn't really draw a meaningfully sharp contrast with McCain, though he uncorked a few predictable lines about us not being able to afford four more years of Bush policies.

But rather than ideologically stiff-arm the left, Warner, who has succeeded in a historically red state by playing the role of post-partisan technocrat, sounded mostly predictable bipartisan tones that weren't at all out of sync with Obama's talk about reaching across party lines to get things done, etc., etc

Here's the Whole thing. I thought the delivery was better than expected.