Why the Democrats’ Keynote Fell Flat
The party opened the second night of its convention with a joint address from 17 “rising stars.” But Kamala Harris’s upcoming speech is really the one to watch.
R had just woken up when his boss called. It was about 6 a.m., and Barack Obama, who was not normally a morning person, had written yet another draft of his keynote speech for the 2004 Democratic National Convention. Obama wanted to know what Gibbs, who had recently joined his campaign for the U.S. Senate, thought. After sheepishly admitting that he had not read his boss’s latest effort, Gibbs checked his email. Obama had sent his revisions at
