The Democratic National Convention is supposed to pull the party together, finally, in a great reconciliation and show of unity. How’s that going at this point?

Sen. Hillary Clinton did her part in that much-anticipated speech.

“Whether you voted for me, or voted for Barack, the time is now to unite as a single party with a single purpose. We are on the same team, and none of us can afford to sit on the sidelines,” she said. “This is a fight for the future, and it’s a fight we must win together.”

But some team players have their own game plan.

In another sign of lingering discord between the Clinton and Obama camps, FOX News confirmed Wednesday that former President Bill Clinton will not attend Barack Obama’s Democratic presidential nomination acceptance speech at Invesco Field in Denver Thursday night.

Which is going to be grandiose, a final crowning of the one chosen by his party to lead.

Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama’s big speech on Thursday night will be delivered from an elaborate columned stage resembling a miniature Greek temple.

The campaign continues to go for the dazzling. But the candidate knows its a moment of truth (relatively speaking)….what will he say?

Speaking to reporters in Illinois this week, he took pains to play down the razzle-dazzle. “I’m not aiming for a lot of high rhetoric,” he said of his upcoming speech. “I’m much more concerned with communicating how I intend to help middle-class families live their lives.

From a Greek temple?