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THE "tough cookie" handed me one with chocolate chips and nuts en route to Denver. Philadelphia's veteran crime-fighter D.A. Lynne Abraham smuggled some Famous 4th Street cookies onto our flight to the convention. (She also gave me the window seat.)
At the Marriott where the Pennsylvania delegation is sleeping, I see state Sen. Dwight Evans grabbing a bite, and it occurs to me that he is Barack Obama a few short years ago: A tall, articulate African-American state senator.
Obama has opened a new career path for state legislators. I wonder where Evans will be in four years?
Security outside the Pepsi Center is a gauntlet. I can't imagine how they'll move 77,000 of us into Invesco Field Thursday night.
When I ask ex-Philly top cop John Timoney, who's here, he tells me, sure, they can protect it - "By keeping it empty."
The arena is really a giant TV set, and this gathering represents the most sophisticated of productions. I'm on the floor as Michelle Obama does a sound and light check. She's with friends and family. One of the Obama girls wants to slam the gavel.
People look like they've been to this dance before, but I'm not the only first-timer at a DNC. State Rep. James Roebuck from University City tells me he's enjoying his first convention.
The woman driving my cab had a GPS with a male voice. Mine at home has a female voice. Why do we like opposite sexes telling us where to go?
I met Rodney Peete's mother-in-law buying western clothes. The mother of Holly Robinson Peete tells me she's tight with Sen. Obama. Many here make that claim, but I believe her.
Nicole Wallace, a spokeswoman for the McCain campaign, was a guest on "Race for the White House," hosted by David Gregory, a show I appear on regularly. She has a wedding ring so big it could pay the mortgages on all seven McCain houses. Note to GOP: No bling!
Chris Matthews doesn't say "no" when I ask about running against Sen. Specter. Hmmm.
Comcast Executive VP David L. Cohen tells me he's going to 62 events in 3 1/2 days ("Pa. Society on steroids").
Pat Buchanan is staying in the next room. In the lobby, he tells me the three guys being held in connection with a threat on Sen. Obama were staying at our hotel. Turns out that one of them jumped from his sixth-floor room. (We're on the ninth.)
Buchanan notes they're allegedly white supremacists, and, laughing, says he hopes these kooks didn't think the hotel was safe because he was a guest. *
Listen to Michael Smerconish weekdays 5-9 a.m. on the Big Talker, 1210/AM. Read him Sundays in the Inquirer. Contact him via the Web at www.mastalk.com.
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