Our Co-Blogging Obama Delegate: Change

Walking into the Pepsi Center on that first day - which means walking into an arena of 20,000 cheering, clapping, determined people - was an impressive experience. Imagine the visceral sense of community of being in one room with 20,000 who share your mission to put an end to eight years of incompetence, to redirect our country's political course so it works for all of us, to get our friends and neighbors at home to take on that responsibility and become a part of making history.

Now imagine that number being more than 80,000, the intensity compounded four-fold.

The final night of the Democratic National Convention at Invesco Field was a celebration. It was a declaration. It was the beginning of our country remembering our individual duty to participate in the political process, not sit on the sidelines as passive (and angry) observers.