When we got in yesterday, the DNCC had closed shop on issuing credentials for bloggers. Bereft of access the convention center, we went on looking for the Big Tent -- and that was fun trying to find given there are about five different tent areas.

When we got there, it was a blast to the past for me. I covered the 2004 conventions on the outside. I wasn't a credentialed blogger in 2004 so I had to stay at places like The Tank in NYC to cover the Republican Party's convention. The Tent looks A LOT like the The Tank in 2004. Only bigger. I don't think it's a coincidence, considering The Tank in NYC was the place where I ended up meeting an "up and coming" blogger who went by the name Kos and who was the publisher of that "little" activist blog called DailyKos.When he saw me he screamed, "Feels like NYC in 2004, doesn't it?" taking the words out of my mouth.

So we settled down at The Big Tent with about another 100 other bloggers and we watched the broadcast from there.

Even though we weren't inside the convention center, the fun thing about watching an event like this with other bloggers is in the unfiltered comments you get for every single moment of the broadcast as it is happening. So when we were watching the tribute to Senator Kennedy ("Uncle Teddy" to us bloggers), Michael comes to me and says, "that's not a tribute, that's an eulogy." I was shocked to hear that but it made me pay attention to what was happening in the room. Around us, there were more than a few fellow bloggers wiping tears from their eyes.Yet out came the Senator from Massachusetts to give one of the most rousing speeches I've heard him give in years. It was amazing to see him with so much energy, so much enthusiasm. It was truly touching and inspiring and the perfect lead into presenting Michelle Obama.

A lot of my fellow bloggers are voting for Barack Obama and are actually in awe of Michelle. But it was interesting to see so many people remark this was the longest anybody had heard her talk. It was amazing and for lack of electricity and a better photo opportunity, I was taking notes of people's reactions. She hit high notes here and there talking about her growing up in a working class family to go on to Harvard and beyond. She connected with people by relaying her own personal story of the American Dream and many in the room were touched to hear about her father's struggle with multiple sclerosis.

Yet the moments when people really started listening were almost at the end when she spoke about her life with a certain Barack Obama. "The Moment"? She had men in tears when she spoke about how she shares with Barack the commitment of giving their daughters what he never had, the unwavering love of a father.

My friend Chris Rabb, of Afro-netizen fame, was in the room with me and he almost lost it. He's had the pleasure of knowing both Barack and Michelle. He told me afterwards that what we had witnessed was all Michelle. That that was who she was up there, all genuine, all true to herself.

I was incredibly impressed, but more so as after their daughters came out and Sasha, the little Obama, was completely unmoved by being in front of an audience of millions when she called out to her father, "Hi daddy!" It was funny to see Barack completely lose his train of thought. Yet what was more impressive was the way in which both of them, Barack and Michelle, handled the situation.

And that's where the power of a media moment enters this narrative.

When you have a roomful of hardened bloggers wiping away tears and oohing and aahing at the sight of what was basically a family talking to each other over a video link, you know something bigger is happening on that screen. It's not about politics. It's not about elections. It's about creating a completely different narrative of what we want to see daily on those TV and computer screens.

Which is why it was brilliant to have Teddy Kennedy not bidding adieu yet but celebrating the dawning of a new political era.

If y'all remember, 45 years ago a certain Irish Catholic family took the political scene by storm with one son becoming President of the United States and the the other one Senator of New York and later on Attorney General.

At that time it was unheard of to have an Irish and needless to say a Catholic become President of the United States. The Irish were the "white ethnics," the kind of Europeans who were considered in the bottom of the social, political and economic barrel in this country. Very much how blacks and browns are regarded still to this day.

Times have changed. We've gone from "I have a dream" to The New Hope that is Barack Obama the US President nominee for the Democratic Party. Times have changed indeed.