Bill Richardson

(Note: To hear audio of Michelle's entire speech today, check out this post at Peter St. Cyr's blog, What's the Word. And there's no waiting.)

This is a guest blog by our friend Rachel N. Rodriguez of Albuquerque who attended today's rally with Michelle Obama at the UNM SUB Ballroom:

61 days until the election - we need to work hard, and women can get the job done.

That's the message Michelle Obama brought to the energized crowd today at the Women for Obama Rally, held at UNM. Of her own reaction to the short time between now and the election, Michelle said she thinks, "Yeah!" and then "Is that it?!"

Today’s reason to laugh…

Top 15 Democratic National Convention pickup lines:

15. Wanna see a nude photo of New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson?
14. Where does a guy go to get Spitzer’d?
13. Has anyone ever said you look like a young Madeline Albright?
12. How’d you like to be on the cover of National Enquirer?
11. Play your cards right and I’ll get you in to hear the speech by Illinois State Comptroller Dan Hynes
10.Wanna form a more perfect union?
9. Something’s rising and it’s not the national debt
8. I’m stiffer than John Kerry
7. Let’s go someplace and release our delegates
6. Care to join the wife and me for a little ‘bipartisanship’?
5. I’ll make you scream like Howard Dean
4. Now that’s what I call a stimulus package
3. I ‘m gonna Barack your world
2. Wanna pretend we’re Republicans and have gay bathroom sex?
1. Hi, I’m John Edwards

I was in section 525 at just about the top row available, just beneath one of those huge screens.  This is about what our view looked like of the convention floor without a zoom lens or binoculars.

Wish I could tattoo "It's Policy, Not Personality" on the eyeballs of Hillary Clinton dead-enders, otherwise known as PUMAs.

For ardent Clinton supporters somehow still wavering in their decision to vote for Obama (a number that's decreasing by the day), let me just do a little gentle reminding from the senator herself.

Instead of watching Clinton delvier her speech live on Tuesday night, I was racing around the Pepsi Center helping MOMocrat Julie P. set up her interview with Senatorial candidate Jeanne Shaheen (NH), so I missed a great deal of Clinton's speech as it occurred. (The entire day was devoted to celebrating women's suffrage on the 88th anniversary of its granting via the 19th Amendment to the Constitution and culminated with Senator Clinton's speech that night.)

But here's the relevant section I was able to catch up with, thanks to YouTube: