Live-blogging Day 1 of the Democratic Convention.

4:58 CT: Just setting up a post, to be added to over the course of the evening. Please join the conversation. 6:53 (I'm beginning with r...

"We have to fight the dangerous streams in culture, the consumerism and narcissism and me-ism that erode the borders of our moral culture."

"We can’t put shallow celebrity before core decency. We have to have a deeper faith in the human spirit. As they say, he who has the he...

About Cory Booker: "He’s dead to us."

The NY Post quotes a "ranking [Obama] administration official." Meanwhile, Bill Clinton, who presumably doesn't want to be dea...

"The man who has been governor and had a sterling business career crosses the qualification threshold," said Bill Clinton about Mitt Romney.

What's Clinton's game? He's not joking , and I don't think there's a big stress on "threshold" (that is, the n...

"Thinking outside the box may solve problems in the real world."

"But in the political realm, creative noodling will get you cast into the outer darkness. No matter which way you lean, The Machinery r...

What were we talking about just before Cory Booker became the topic of the moment?

See, there is the question you need to ask if you want to figure out whether the gaffe was really a gaffe. Stop and think. Do you even remem...

Josh Marshall says Cory Booker did not make a gaffe.

Is Booker in this for himself? Are media folk like David Gregory actually conservative when it comes to financial matters? ADDED: Ch...

"Bain and Financial Industry Gave Over $565,000 To Newark Mayor Cory Booker For 2002 Campaign."

That's a headline over at ThinkProgress , and it's getting a lot of attention, but let's look at the detail: Contributions to hi...

"Democratic Newark Mayor Cory Booker... [t]he articulate, reform-minded, anti-partisan urban legislator..."

"... known for his chummy relationship with Republican Gov. Chris Christie and heat-of-the-moment heroics, looks to have found himself ...