Style Over Substance: Obama Delivers Coronation Peroration, Clarifies Platform

By Patrick Henry 

Barack Obama’s convention speech before 84,000 screaming partisans was high theater. Just getting that many Democrats to cheer in unison is an accomplishment. (Woodstock was the last time this many cheering liberals gathered in one place.) But getting them there without readily accessible pot? Now that’s truly a feat!

Of course, Senator Obama’s speech was more spectacle than substance…