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Kos' speech is emotional, positive and triumphalist, which is a nice change of pace, actually, after three days of listening to Kossacks bitch and moan in their workshops. Not all of his speech is accurate--"The reporters in the back of the room were laughing at me. They were laughing at us," for example, is a ridiculous statement--but it's the right speech for this crowd and this moment. The tears he keeps choking back imbue it with a depth it might otherwise not have and his self-effacing bits on how he only created a forum not a movement--while clearly, in light of his more bragging interviews, is a bit of a put on--are appealing.

It's a good exclamation point to an uneven convention, I think.