Mission Accomplished

Before heading over to the convention this afternoon, Diana and I walked down the 16th St. Promenade and saw all the vendors selling Obama T-shirts, buttons and other souveniers. Before taking a left to go to the Pepsi center, we stopped by the MSNBC stage, where Chris Matthews was taping Hardball live in front of a crowd. I was able to get him the delegate button I made for him, and was able to talk to him for just a moment. He seemed genuinely pleased, and said something like "oh, aren't you sweet! You made those? That's great!" Keith Olberman
was not around, so no dice on that one.

The only remaining celebrity buttons I had left were for the cast of the Daily Show with Jon Stewart, which is taping this week from somewhere in Denver, but no one seems to know where. I had just about given up on this one, but when we left the stadium after Senator Clinton's speech, we got a little lost and ended up in a parking lot, where I saw John Oliver from the Daily Show interviewing a Clinton delegate. When he was done, I explained the delegate button thing and said I had one for him. His button said, "John Oliver, Honorary Delegate: Bedford,
England." He seemed touched that I had made this and had put his hometown on it. I told him I had buttons for the other cast members as well. When I dug out the other buttons he asked if I would want to be interviewed, to which I believe I said, "hell yeah!"

I have no idea whether it will actually air or not, but it was fun either way. He asked me if, now that I had heard Senator Clinton's speech I felt the the party was totally healed. I said, "Yes, I think she gave a great speech and everyone left feeling very unified and motivated to go on and win the election." He said, "Are you sure?" I said, "Yes, I am pretty sure." He said, "Pretty sure? But what about that thing with Nevada?" I asked what thing, and he said, "you know, I heard they weren't so happy." I said, "Oh. Well, I didn't know about anything going on with Nevada, but it seemed really good from the New York delegation." I think he said something like "Well, that's not what I heard," and then moved on to "So, by healing, do you mean that there is a giant scab formed now?" And I said, "Well, sometimes the healing process can be kind of painful, but I think we are totally healed now." To which he said, "But if we scratch off that scab, will there be a horrible infected wound underneath, or healthy skin cells?" "I said, I think there would be totally healthy skin." He said something like, are you sure there wouldn't be infected puss underneath? To which I said, "no, I think you would never know anything had happened. Totally healed." Then he thanked me and that was it.