Democratic National Convention 2012

Party platforms are like contracts: No one bothers to read them until something bad happens.

We all know that parties to any agreement should study the fine print in advance, and surely that applies to the national political parties. The delegates really ought to spend some of their time in the host city studying the document they are voting to adopt.

But hey, it's a convention. It's a party. Who wants to sit in their hotel room and read?

Prepared text of Governor John Hickenlooper's address at the Democratic National Convention, Wednesday September 5th.

Prepared text and video of Clinton's speech nominating President Barack Obama at the Democratic National Convention Wednesday, September 5th.

Good morning.