The Kerry Speech
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John Kerry Speaks at the DNC
Sen. John Kerry (D-MA) speaks at the convention.
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Sen. John Kerry (D-MA) speaks at the convention.
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Cable believed their pundits were more interesting than this speech. They made the wrong call:
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The irony of working on this stuff, is that well, you're working, so I haven't really been keeping up on the festivities. I started streaming stuff tonight, and while there's been a lot of good stuff (the nomination itself was particularly nice ), a lot of it seems to be lacking a bit of the fire . Dennis Kucinich brings it, big time (even with a great zinger edited out ): (Hearing good things about...
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...and nominate this guy. He's great, much better than that guy the Democrats nominated in 2004, whatever his name was. Bill Clinton was terrific but John Kerry was dazzling. I was at home baking a cakeblueberry pound cake from scratch, typical gay lifestyle stuffwith the convention on the radio. About four minutes into Kerry's speech I stopped what I was doing and just stood there and listened....
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The best line of the night came from Clinton: "People around the world have always been more impressed by the power of our example than by the example of our power." But man, did John Kerry ever hit it out of the park. If only he spoke like this at his own convention. Subscribe.
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If you were exclusively watching the convention via one of the gas-bag central TV "news" channels, you might have missed John Kerry's speech, as it came after Bill Clinton's -- it was more important to bloviate and "analyze" than to listen to Senator Kerry. So, if you missed it, I sincerely implore you to spend 13 quality minutes doing so. With all apologies to former President Bill Clinton and his...
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Best speech I've heard him give:
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Today's batch of pictures is a bit smalll . Worse, Flickr's on the fritz and the slideshow application's not working. Instead, click through to the Flickr page where you can see them all, including some text descriptions. I also wanted to link to the major speeches given thus far in the convention, in case you missed any of them: Joe Biden John Kerry Bill Clinton Hillary Clinton nominates Obama by...
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Chances are you missed this speech by John Kerry at the Democratic Convention last night; the networks don't cover the anyone but the headliners. But if he had given this speech in 2004, we'd be watching his re-nomination convention. HT to TPM .
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It was not lost on anyone last night that, had Kerry been even halfway as straightforward and aggressive in '04, this would have been his convention. It was that recognition on the part of our photographer, Alan Chin, that caused him to catch this photo, and only this photo, of the fighting Kerry last night.
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I don't watch TV so I'm "only" following the Democratic Convention online (which in itself is probably as absurd as watching it on TV: Whereas on TV, you can only see what you get, online the tiniest morsel is presented by somebody somewhere, and you're left out to wonder whether that tiny morsel could have any relevance - how this is preferable to TV escapes me). Needless to say, the Democratic Convention...
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via Josh Marshall. Awe-some. You can be forgiven for wondering where this passion was four years ago. But here we are.
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I now have the video for the excellent speech given by John Kerry at the convention last night (with transcript previously posted here.) It turns out that, according to Josh Marshall, Kerry wrote the speech himself. During the 2004 campaign I sometimes felt that Kerry was being harmed by taking the advice of political advisers [...]
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Clinton and Biden were great but I was surprised by Kerry. Watch it. I’m guessing it won’t get the air play it deserves.
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Full Text: Thank you so much. Four years ago, you gave me the honor of fighting our fight. I was proud to stand with you then, and I am proud to stand with you now, to help elect Barack Obama as President of the United States. In 2004, we came so close to victory. We are even [...]
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Damn. Where was THIS four years ago, Big John? To Top Of Main Page