Not trying to be too critical of your comments, Fair, but it is an age-old problem with political conventions - how much do you appeal to people's hearts, and how much to their heads?
It's been said repeatedly about Obama - oh, he has that soaring-rhetoric thing down, but where is the substance? Where are the discussions of the issues? But if he discusses the issues in any detail - he's boring! Maybe Bill Clinton really did have a unique talent, that he could speak about issues in wonky detail and somehow make it fascinating. Maybe hardly anyone can do that - certainly not his wife, not Al Gore, nor any Republican I've heard from. So, I'll take the soaring rhetoric that stirs my emotions. I don't need anything for my head because my mind has been made up forever - we gotta have a Democrat in the White House, no matter who it is.
So is the convention for the party and the delegates? Or is it meant to persuade undecided voters? I don't see why it can't be both. If yesterday was about emotion, that was for the Democrats mostly perhaps, although I'm sure some of the undecideds also have hearts! Today, tomorrow - yes, there can be more emphasis on issues. But it's a four-day event, after all - can't be all head, all the time!
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