DENVER - Hillary hit almost all the right notes tonight, and she hit them with authority. Obama supporters should be more than happy with Clinton's speech, and by the reaction of the crowd in the hall, they were. If there is one thing the Obama folks could take issue with, however, it's the one Michael Crowley pointed out as soon as we were handed a copy of her prepared text: she did not say Obama was ready to be Commander in Chief.

The McCain campaign noticed this omission as well, and they wasted no time pointing it out with an email blast from spokesman Tucker Bounds directly following Clinton's speech:

Senator Clinton ran her presidential campaign making clear that Barack Obama is not prepared to lead as commander in chief. Nowhere tonight did she alter that assessment. Nowhere tonight did she say that Barack Obama is ready to lead. Millions of Hillary Clinton supporters and millions of Americans remain concerned about whether Barack Obama is ready to be President.

It is strange that Clinton would leave that avenue of attack open to Republicans by not forcefully addressing it tonight - especially given the ad they launched just this morning.

One other aspect of Clinton's performance tonight felt slightly off kilter, at least from where I was sitting inside the hall. The crowd was absolutely primed to get involved in the speech, offering applause and trying to start up the kind of repetitive chants that are part and parcel of political orations these days.

Yet Clinton rushed right through those opportunities. She didn't pause and revel in the applause, and she didn't engage the crowd nearly as much as she could have. Instead she just plowed through the text. At one point during the speech (again, this is from where I was sitting, it may have sounded differently on television) two entire sentences were lost under the applause.

Despite these two oddities, Clinton did her duty tonight, and she did it well. She got huge ovations for her opening statement declaring she was a "proud supporter of Barack Obama" and saying "the time is now to unite as a single party with a single purpose."

Another big line, which will no doubt be the sound byte that gets the most repetition, was when Clinton told the crowd "No way. No how. No McCain."

Clinton received a massive ovation for her comment about President Clinton's administration and she brought the crowd to its feet again by saying she "can't wait to watch Barack Obama sign a health care plan into law that covers every single American."

Lastly, Clinton brought down the house with her jab that, "with an agenda like that, it makes sense that George Bush and John McCain will be together next week in the Twin Cities. Because these days they're awfully hard to tell apart." Touche.

Will Clinton's speech tonight finally put an end to the drama that's surrounded the convention thus far? Somehow I doubt it.