Hillary: That's More Like It.

Rock out, girl. (Love "Sisterhood of the Traveling Pantsuits." That should totally be a movie, like a good version of Divine Secrets of something Sisterhood. Potential casting includes Bette Midler, Annette Benning, Felicity Huffman, and Phylicia Rashad.)

(update: just kidding, that casting is lame. Thanks to Ryan Anderson's assistance, Sisterhood of the Traveling Pantsuits will instead star Allison Janney, Catherine O'Hara, Francis McDormand, and Phylica Rashad.)

On topic: I'm not going to Talmudically dissect last night (others can debate whether she sufficiently made a case for Obama other than "Vote for him, he's our candidate") mostly because I think the most important refrain in that speech made the best case of all:

Were you in this just for me, or for all the people who feel invisible in this country?

There's the pathos I'm looking for, the realism we need about people's lives in America, and the admittedly weird reminder, considering the source, that politics is about all people, not just the one anointed candidate.

Barack would do well to underscore that theme. Despite the perceived messianism this campaign is about empowering citizens to feel they can "be the change [they]wish to see in the world." That's what will get us across the finish line.