Liveblogging the Convention

They have not served a red America or a blue America, they have served the United States of America.

So I've got news for you, John McCain: We all put our country first.

It's a reprise of the theme of his 2004 DNC speech, but with a greater sense of urgency. He's translated the rhetoric to a sense of immediate purpose, that there are concrete policy implications to our common humanity and unity.

If you don't have fresh ideas, you use stale tactics to scare voters. If you don't have a record to run on, you paint your opponent as someone voters should run from.