DNC Day One Wrapup

Some of the highlights (and lowlights) of Day One at the DNC:

• Breakfast with Global Leadership for Climate Action—a UN Foundation/Club of Madrid Partnership. Participants, including former heads of state, foreign ministers, business leaders and U.S. Ambassadors, express optimism about a post-Kyoto agreement with an Obama Administration.

• Tim Wirth and John Podesta declare that Democrats’ Energy Plan doesn’t go far enough.

• “Early to bed, early to rise, work like hell and advertise”—Ted Turner’s "words to live by" at the Philanthropy Forum.

• Touché, Joe Lieberman?  Jim Leach, former Republican representative from Iowa, begins the Convention with an Obama endorsement that doesn’t quite bring the house down.

• Reports of a planned Obama assassination attempt abound.

• A tribute to Ted Kennedy, Michelle Obama praises Hillary, and James Carville thinks the first day was a failure.