[Fracas]

I used to be a political speechwriter. Kerry's speech was painful to watch and hear. I listened to it twice (I know, I'm a glutton!), once with the sound off just to watch his delivery. It was atrocious. He can't walk and chew gum. Watch his eyes when he's speaking. There's no one home! BTW, GWB has wonderful eye contact.

Kerry's speech featured his usual boring delivery, but the content was poor. It was a candidate's attempt at a SOTU speech - someone needs to tell him he's not POTUS. A win after a primary is not an appropriate place to deliver a policy speech.

He tried to give something to everyone, and instead, gave nothing to anyone.

[Timesink]

They spent a LOT of time on Hardball talking about how bad Kerry's speech was.

[mombonn]

Kerry's speech was painful to watch and hear.

LOL - I heard Pat Buchanan refer to it as the "No cliche left behind" speech. Chrissy Matthews cracked up.