<p>Day 3 of the Democratic Convention was a very strong line up of speakers, including President Obama, peppered with celebrities, including a rendition of &#8220;love sweet love&#8221; by about 40 celebrities and a decent  ;performance by Lenny Kravitz.</p>
<p>In an early speech, former CIA director Leon Panetta was heckled with the chant &#8220;no more drones.&#8221; They were shining their cellphone lights at Panetta, perhaps a &#8220;shine the light on this&#8221; metaphor? I didn&#8217;t realize there was a group opposed to drones, but I do in fact agree with their position. ;His speech was otherwise not memorable.</p>
<p>Vice President Joe Biden was introduced by his wife, after which was shown an intro video. As I watched the video, I would swear this was designed as a presidential campaign video. ;From the crowds response, Joe is the candidate they wished they had.</p>
<p>It was a very well rehearsed political speech with all of the tricks and gimics one can learn over a 40 year political career. He praised hillary to a certain extent but the speech was not about her. He did spend a lot of time trashing Trump. At one point he said &#8220;let me tell you something that has nothing to do with politics&#8221; and then he proceeded to trash Trump again. Nice trick.  ;Not as good as Bill&#8217;s speech last night, but OK.</p>
<p>Yes, I do believe Joe is being ;tested ;as the candidate, if for some reason Hillary implodes. He would be their only option at this point.</p>
<p>Michael Bloomberg  ;wanted to &#8220;explain why I believe it is imperative to elect Hillary Clinton&#8221;.  ;He&#8217;s a boring speaker, his content was boring, more anti-Trump than pro-Hillary. He would have made a terrible third party candidate.</p>
<p>Tim Kaine accepted the Democratic nomination for Vice President. He started with the same speech as last week, then made fun of Donald Trump&#8217;s phrase &#8220;believe me&#8221; which didn&#8217;t play well in my opinion. The rest was very predictable, I was expecting better. His cheers were not as good as Biden&#8217;s.</p>
<p>President Obama&#8217;s intro video was very well done, could be considered the highlight of today&#8217;s events (in the absence of better speeches).  ;His speech was pretty standard.  ;Was heckled by a lone heckler, but speech was well received.</p>
<p>The audience had &#8220;Thank you&#8221; signs, and near the end it turned into a goodbye speech. The highlight was when he said Hillary was &#8220;the most qualified ever and that includes me and Bill &#8211; sorry Bill, I&#8217;m just telling the truth&#8221; Bill was seated nearby and broke out in laughter.</p>