"The Asset Has Arrived"

Thanks for the many emails from DC today. Here's a typical dispatch:

Just got back from trying to attend Barack's AU speech. Couldn't get in - place was too jam-packed. Passed a similarly rebuffed Chris Matthews on my way out. The line stretched for about a mile from Bender Arena, winding down two neighboring streets. Of the hundreds waiting in line outside I saw every age group and demographic possible. I eavesdropped on conversations between college students and picked up a dropped ham sandwich for an older gent in his sixties. Saw a few diva-looking types in mink coats and folks in baseball caps and jackets.

As the Bourne Ultimatum would have it, the asset has arrived.

Another reader:

It was multi-racial, mutli-generational crowd who were beyond enthused. It really did feel like a movement -- the excitement was absolutely palpable. On the line, everyone was chatting about how they used to support Clinton during his presidency. They loved him. They felt so let down and disgusted, as well as disgusted with those who shrug and explain away the Clintons' sliminess as simply pragmatic, as "what it takes." One said if you told her then that she would be rallying for a candidate running against Hillary for president, she never would have believed it. Everyone agreed.