speak. it was in the messages that those speakers were intent on giving. and of course the most powerful, the most blatant, was senator mccain's daughter meghan who just came right out with it, and frankly, i was again in there and some surprise that she went there. maybe shouldn't have been since beforehand she said his message to her when they talked about her giving the eulogy was to talk about how strong you are. she did, talking about the fact that america doesn't have to be great again because america was always great. there was that. there was of course president obama. not so subtly talking about the bombast and the smallness and so forth. but i think the message was also so much bigger than that. it wasn't so much who not to be like, it was who to be like. and what to be like. in order to try to follow the lead and the example of john