Both are trying to implement change, but they're doing it in two different ways. Both have causes to support, one with the inside track and the other outside. One is obviously more accepted. Jesse Jackson Jr. and Gore Vidal spoke there, and they're focusing on issues that they feel are being overlooked in the national convention. It's a way of getting experience in that field.
Every point is praised, so they have to leave time for applause.
Monday night, the applause was only beginning. The writer is a 1999 graduate of Bay High School and was named 1999 Woman of the Year by the Bay County Chapter of the National Organization for Women. She attends Indiana University.