Last night, I took the night off from staring daggers at my fantasy football draft prep and the non-hitting Yankees on my fantasy baseball team to watch Barack Obama take the Democratic nomination. (This is the big cue for those of you who don't share my politics to either dig in and suffer or scroll down. You've been warned.) Over 70,000 people braved what must have been the security detail from hell (according to the reports I've read, waits of five hours were common) to watch ...