It was AWESOME!

Everybody and their mother who had a pass to the Pepsi Center was there. I had gotten a pass to go to the floor during her speech but every singe delegate and somebody who could be there was there. So people like me were completely blocked and turned away from seeing the Senator up close and personal.

I ran from the floor to the rafters and the nobodies like me had packed every single aisle and standing area they could get to. I pleading with one of the fire marshalls to let me get a peek into the podium and it was literally from outside in the hall and looking into the center that I took this photograph. And it wasn't even with a conventional camera. I took this with my camcorder.

I did everything I could to get into the arena center but failed miserably. So I ran back down to the bowels of the center, the basement area they had set up for independent media and bloggers. Ironic that you come from so far away to cover live a convention and you end up in a room with a TV set.

Still, for us bloggers the advantage of being all together in one room is that we can do face to face what we normally do through our blogs : We get to have a conversation and a discussion of what's happening right there and at right that time.

The big question last night was not "What does Hillary want?" but "What is Hillary Going To Do?"

If you have been following the traditional media's narrative about the Democratic Party, you'd be hard pressed not to stumble upon one article or another stocking the fabled millions of disgruntled "Clintonistas" and their alleged anti-Obama campaign. You know the one? The plot that Hillary allegedly had approved tacitly? The plan to hijack the convention and wrest the nomination away from Obama?

Well, Hillary put that one to sleep with "The Speech."

Oh.

My.

Blog.

It was amazing. She hit all the right notes and impress a whole contingency of bloggers who were against her nomination, myself included.

The moment that did it for me was when she asked whether her supporters were there for her or wether they were there for the country. 

WOW.

That summed up everything I had been writing on my blog and commenting with people for weeks. Do you want to vote for a man who will continue the war, deny health care for the people who need it most and who has vowed to wrest reproductive rights away from women; or do you want to vote for the candidate that can bring change to the country not by himself but with the political might of a renewed Democratic Party?

Hillary won every single moment on that podium.

She also won back this one New Yorker who had been disheartened by the tone and the rhetoric of her primary campaign.

Kudos to Hillary Clinton.

As we say in the blogosphere, the PWNED the night.