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Convention Thoughts on the Night of Kerry

The Democratic convention is well choreographed save for the audience. Remember those Bugs Bunny cartoons in which they would simulate total silence not by silence but by the presence of crickets? That's what I was reminded by tonight anytime a speaker mentioned Kerry's commitment to strong military. If the topic was Bill Clinton they were on their feet. If the topic was another giveaway program they were dancing. If the topic was the war on terrorism they were as interested as Michael Moore would be with a diet book.

These guys can talk the talk tonight, but their base of supporters are speaking even louder that they won't support military action. The Democrats aren't going to risk alienating their base to prosecute this war. If the Dems strategy is to get centrists then someone should be telling the audience to play along by hooting and hollering at these lines too, otherwise we might get the idea that they have no stomach for it.

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Did they actually make a short film about John Kerry attending a funeral?

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After accusing Bush of getting us into a fraudulent war and accusing Cheney of making secret deals with polluters, John Kerry asked that President Bush join him to make this a positive campaign. It reminds me of a guy who hits someone in the nose and then implores the victim that their conflict can be worked out through a peaceful dialogue.

Otherwise the usual apple pie and motherhood were paraded out. Kerry mentioned God a couple of times and the crickets came back. He's got a great plan for protecting us before another attack without an ugly pre-emptive strike. A neat trick what details will be released in his memoirs, maybe.

I learned that 4 months in Vietnam over 3 decades ago trumps voting against military and intelligence spending. Hillary can forget about running in the year 2008. Democrats just don't have faith in a candidate that hasn't served in the military.

Kerry said maybe the most honest thing in this campaign. He said that John Edwards is the embodiment of the American Dream. It's true, Edwards has proved that anyone can get rich in this country if they can find a deep pocketed defendant.

John Kerry is an optimist who believes in America although he has his hands full with rich people, corporations, HMOs, homophobes, racists and pro-lifers.

And if it weren’t for this campaign I would have never learned about the miraculous healing power of stem cells. Once they work the kinks out, stem cells will cure Alzheimers , stop jobs from being exported overseas, and make your mother-in-law call before coming over.

John Kerry’s America is Popeye with a case of spinach. John Kerry’s America is Mariano Rivera pitching and Haliburton batting. John Kerry’s America is Microsoft Internet Explorer without the cookies. In short, John Kerry’s America is finally the heaven that FDR, Johnson and Clinton only dreamed of.