So you thought you were going to blog live? 
I was expecting wonderful insight from Tom Watson at the Labour Party Conference. Sadly, it wasn’t to be: “A thousand apologies. I hoped to give you a running commentary on the conference. But you can’t get laptops through security, the NTL cyber cafe is always busy and vodafone (in particular the adviser called Dean) couldn’t help me configure the phone correctly. But that’s life. Next year I’ll get it right.”
Of course, if Tom had posted that earlier, he would have received timely advice.
Talking Points Memo has a lengthy interview with Wesley Clark. I was particularly interested in some of the people he cites as helping him with policy: Laura Tyson, Gene Sperling, Bob Rubin. All key people in Clinton’s highly successful economic team (compare and contrast with Bush’s crowd).
Clark comes across pretty damned impressively in the interview. Well worth a read for anyone interested in American politics.
I’ll be traveling to Boston for BloggerCon today, so postings will be sparse.