The Convention So Far: A Selective Report Card

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Posted on Oct 27, 2008 @ 04:07PM  
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With Obama set to wrap up the nomination tonight, Radar's media critic Charles Kaiser grades some of the DNC's featured speakers:

MONDAY

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Theme: "One Nation"
Speaker: Teddy Kennedy
Grade: A+
The surprise sensation of the week. The old lion defied doctors and family members to deliver the peroration of a lifetime. It was the most emotional convention moment since JFK was memorialized in film in '64—and Bobby had to stand through 20 minutes of applause before he could speak. (LBJ was not amused.)

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