Michelle Obama and Two Conventions from the Rafters

This is my view of her last night from the nosebleed seats. Twenty years ago was the last time I attended a convention, and then too I sat near the rafters. It was the night George H.W. Bush gave his acceptance speech ("Read my lips...").

Here's a big difference between then and now. Then, on the culminating night of the convention, I was sitting next to empty seats. Last night, the first night, there wasn't a seat in the house.

In this photo Michelle Obama is a tiny blip on the stage...but it was clear from the reception she got inside the Pepsi Center that she was a big success with the delegates here.