(crossposted from gerrycanavan.blogspot.com)
Bar none, the ugliest moment of the night: the audience cracks up at the very suggestion that the nomination of Barack Obama is something we can be proud of as a nation.
"His rise is remarkable in its own right - it's the kind of thing that could happen only in America." [laughter]
(video below)
I have to echo Andrew Sullivan: why is this funny? What exactly is it about the nomination of Barack Obama that makes "only in America" a laugh line?
I'd really like to know.