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Partisan - as defined by Merriam Webster's -- is familiar term to anyone with a fifth-grade education: "a firm adherent to a party, faction, cause, or person; esp: one exhibiting blind, prejudiced, and unreasoning allegiance."

Whether or not Hurricane Gustav was "good" for the Republican Party is an academic -- not to mention deeply cynical -- line of questioning. Yes, the storm may have kept Bush and Cheney from Monday night appearances that would have reinscribed the meme of Sen. McCain as Bush's Third Term, but it hardly relegated the revelations about VP nominee Gov. Sarah Palin, which snowballed throughout the day, culminating in Campbell Brown's interview of McCain spokesman Tucker Bounds.

Last Thursday Fox Analyst (and former Bush Brain) Karl Rove complained that "The Republicans can't seem to get a break when it comes to August and when it comes to the weather." Nearly three years to the day Category 4 Hurricane Gustav is poised to strike New Orleans, just as the Republican National Convention gets underway.

In its lead-up, Barack Obama's acceptance speech was perhaps the most highly anticipated in modern Democratic Convention history. With it the torch formally passed to Barack Obama from the Clintons. Overall, the four-day convention -- contrary to the caterwauling of Tom Brokaw and Ted Koppel -- was an exuberant affair watched by over 20M Americans -- and that's just on the telly.

After Hillary's winning performance Tuesday night, and a sigh of relief from Obama rank-and-file, all attention shifted to Wednesday night's appearance by Pres. Clinton. What would Big Bill say?

While the stated theme of the DNCC's second day was Renewing America's Promise, it was Hillary's speech that filled the seats to overflow. But before she took the podium, there were a handful of rabble-rousing addresses, each successfully fusing a critique of the Bush administration with a optimistic way forward. (A common-sense, but new strategy, for the party.)