Boston

IT’S BEEN a busy 15 hours for Teresa Heinz Kerry. For starters, she addressed the national convention last night at the Fleet Center. The reviews of her speech have been mixed, at best. William Saletan, of Slate, criticized her for talking about her late husband, Jack Heinz. Andrew Sullivan decried The Teresa Problem, called her talk “condescending, unnecessary, and pointless,” and went so far as to say that her speech “should not have been given.”

But anyone who’s covered Teresa knows that last night was a pretty savvy and disciplined performance, by her standards. Not only did she use prepared remarks–she actually spent part of her speech talking about John Kerry.