Dave Barry in Charlotte: The DJ has the Democrats spinning

Dave Barry in Charlotte: The DJ has the Democrats spinning

"Bill was preceded by a parade of speakers whose remarks stressed the big recurring theme of this convention, which is that Barack Obama and the Democrats want to move America forward into the future by fixing this pesky inherited economy with a specific and practical plan to be revealed at a later date, so that every American — be it a woman, or a minority group, or a person of gender — will have an equal opportunity to have the American dream that Americans deserve here in America; as opposed to Mitt Romney and the Republicans, who want to move the nation backward in a giant Republican time machine to 1959, when wealthy fat-cat Republicans roamed the land with impunity, smoking cigars and beating the poor with golf clubs."

"A lot of people who had tickets for the stadium speech are now being informed that they will not get in. I would hate to be the person who has to tell Joe Biden."