DENVER, Colo. — Why I agreed to do a Crappy Hour that required waking up at 6 a.m. I really can’t say. But here Megan Carpentier and I try to discuss race and Michelle Obama’s speech. I should have posted here that I liveblogged that for the Streak, but oops. Anyway, here we go:

SPENCER: Look, we still live in fucking Nixonland here. Operation Rescue’s Randall Terry is handing out flyers in Denver talking about solutions to "the Negro Problem". There’s a grace and a power to how conspicuously inclusive Michelle Obama’s speech was, and how Barack Obama’s candidacy is, but the frustration must be overwhelming. If it was me, I’d be in a clocktower opening fire, saving only the last bullet for myself. But that’s my white privilege talking. She has to say that she loves America?

MEGAN: Honestly, by the end of it, I was like, Chicago! Hope! Change! Drink! But it was a little depressing that she had to be like, I have parents and I grew up like you, America, and married an awesome guy who loves me in order to help him get electred.

 Also, I realize that I’ve been kind of a shitty conventionblogger. This blog was kind of substanceless yesterday. Today will be better, I promise. It’s all part of my message of change and redemption and renewal.