Did you watch the roll call? Pretty great stuff, culminating in Hillary's call for Barack Obama to be nominated by acclamation. It was an historic moment, and a Day Three highlight.

There were others. Biden's speech was fantastic, and Bill was on his game and gave a powerful endorsement of Barack Obama to an adoring crowd. But my favorite part of Day Three was Sen. Kerry's barnburner. Now this is a speech.

How awesome is that guy, anyway? The media was looking for a red meat speech, and that was it. The Senator kicked Bush/McCain butt up one side and down the other in no uncertain terms, citing one McCain flip flop and Bush screwup after another, and the crowd ate it up.

It wasn't surprising that Biden and Kerry made the same Freudian slip when they each transposed the names of McCain and Bush in their speeches. Their difference between the two is barely perceptible. A McCain presidency promises the unthinkable, the third term of Bush, and it was never more clearly stated than when Sen. Kerry did last night.

The stakes could not be higher, because we do know what a McCain administration would look like: just like the past, just like George Bush. And this country can't afford a third Bush term. Just think: John McCain voted with George Bush 90 percent of the time. Ninety percent of George Bush is just more than we can take.

But it wasn't just a speech where he took the administration and their pal John McCain to task, the Senator also spoke of the patriotism of the American people, and of the life of Barack Obama and the history of his family, even introducing Senator Obama's great uncle Charlie Payne who was in the audience with Michelle to cheer on his nephew's campaign.

No one can question Barack Obama's patriotism. Like all of us, he was taught what it means to be an American by his family: his grandmother who worked on a bomber assembly line in World War II, his grandfather who marched in Patton's army, and his great uncle who enlisted in the army right out of high school at the height of the war. And on a spring day in 1945, he helped liberate one of the concentration camps at Buchenwald.

Ladies and gentlemen, Barack Obama's uncle is here with us tonight. Please join me in saluting this American hero, Charlie Payne. Charlie, your nephew, Barack Obama, will end this politics of distortion and division. He will be a president who seeks not to perfect the lies of Swift boating, but to end them once and for all.

This election is a chance for America to tell the merchants of fear and division: you don't decide who loves this country; you don't decide who is a patriot; you don't decide whose service counts and whose doesn't.

Four years ago I said, and I say it again tonight, that the flag doesn't belong to any ideology. It doesn't belong to any political party. It is an enduring symbol of our nation, and it belongs to all the American people. After all, patriotism is not love of power or some cheap trick to win votes; patriotism is love of country.

The crowd reacted throughout the speech, but never more strongly than when he reminded them that Barack Obama will do something that will have an immediate effect on our national security and global standing, shutting down Guantanamo.

It was a great speech on a great night, when the stirring words of President Clinton and Senator Kerry and our next VP, Joe Biden and of other great Americans like Tammy Duckworth and Patrick Murphy brought Democrats to their feet and tears to their eyes. For one reason. To take back our country.

The choice is clear; our cause is just; and now is our time to make Barack Obama the next President of the United States.

Yahoo has some great photos of the Senator at the Convention.