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The Nation's Ari Melber did a good, discerning write-up of the Kosvention...
http://www.thenation.com/doc/20070813/melber
This part was interesting, very telling in Clinton's arm's length approach...
Yet Clinton strained to mold her meeting back into a controlled event. She was the only candidate to use her staff as a buffer, tapping her Internet director, Peter Daou, to pick questions and bringing three other senior aides onstage, though none of them spoke. She filibustered most of the time, taking more than eleven minutes to answer the first question alone--a simple query about fixing the unpopular No Child Left Behind Act. That softball came from an official with the National Education Association, who either didn't know or didn't care that this scarce time was carved out for bloggers and activists without insider access, not for interest-group sponsors.
Then Clinton only took five more questions.
