Laden, and bring him to justice. "Pity the poor delegates - and there are thousands of them - who couldn't get in to the arena to watch Barack Obama make his Big Speech live," writes Ed Pilkington . Take Douglas Smith. He drove all the way from Washington DC to be here on Tuesday. When I asked him just now was he disappointed, he said he was "very, very, very, very, very disappointed". Yes, that's five verys. But he said he was still glad to be here. "I'm disappointed. But happy." Gina Meola-Wentz came even further. She drove 10 hours and 600 miles with her two kids to be in Charlotte, all the way from Ashtabula, Ohio. "Well yeah I'm disappointed, but we're making the best of it." Journalists are a cynical bunch at heart. But I've got to say, the enthusiasm in the Crown Ballroom, from hundreds of Obama supporters who could so easily be mightly upset tonight, is pretty something. Joe Biden goes into great depth on the bailout of the US auto industry, and mentions that his own father was a car salesman. This leads him on to a telling contrast with Mitt Romney : When I look back now on the President's decision, I also think of another son of an automobile man - Mitt Romney. Mitt Romney grew up in Detroit. His father ran American Motors. Yet he was willing to let Detroit go bankrupt. Now Joe Biden is doing his thing as a witness