All the air leaves the room when it’s Kucinich’s turn. I’m only half-listening, but I think his introducer says he has “insights,” which is a sign of how she’s having to stretch to get material a minute-long introduction. You’ve got to give him credit though. He has practice as a speaker no one listens to, and knows how to work with it. When everyone in the huge hall at the Washington Hilton is standing around and chatting at the beginning of his speech, he says, “Can you hear me in the back?” People yell, “Yes.” He says, “Good, because I can hear you.” That quiets them down. I tune out until the end when he starts talking quite frankly about what is the implicit deeper agenda of the Democratic party, which is his “9/10 forum” devoted to “rediscovering who we were on 9/10.” He’ll do this through something called “appreciative inquiry.” He ends by urging, drawing his lines from “America the Beautiful,” “Crown thy good, America. Crown thy good, America. Crown thy good.” A nice sentiment, but coming from Kucinich it has a bizarre William Shatner-singing-a-song feel. Next and last: Hillary.