Of course not...it's a duping sales pitch.
Can't have a policy speech when ya got no policy.
This is really good news. Americans can use the extra sleep!
No policy.. I am so sick of these yellow striped cowards afraid to take a position on something.
They have nothing and they know they have nothing.
A good choice by the Democrats in the primary. A spineless jellyfish who is afraid to take a specific position on anything. He represents the party of deadbeats, kooks, and ignorance very well.
Let's pray it's really 55 minutes, like they're saying. An hour of Kerry will kill network ratings and anyone's desire to hear more!
I have news for Mr. Kerry.
A *LEADER* takes positions.
A *LEADER* tells us our plan and why we should vote for him.
A *LEADER* follows through with his plan
You sir, are no leader. You are a coward. You are a gutless speck of dirt with not enough moral character nor testicular fortitude to tell us what you believe.
The American People are not going to stand for this spineless worm.
"We want people to get to know him as a human being, the values that have carried him through life, and the fact that he is able to lead this country," Edmonds said. Shrum agreed: Kerry's "Going to tell people who he is, what his values are."Who told them that this was a winning strategy!? Have they ever met John Kerry?!
so it probably is a dog.
Excellent! The more people hear the real Kerry, the more they flee!
I suspect the speech writer wanted to ensure nobody thought he wrote that junk....
Just saw an interview with Bill Weld on CNN, that POS Judy W. was trying to get Weld to say something nice about Kerry...
Weld casually mentioned a poll taken recently in Massachusetts where 65% of the respondants said they believed Kerry would RAISE TAXES.
And as Weld said, "these are the people who know Kerry best..."
Like kerry himself, the speeh will be a vapidity wrapped in a vacuity wrapped in a platitude.
The biographical movie, on the other hand, will not be forgotten. It will be one of the odder things ever seen at a political convention, will make liberals uncomfortable ("he's carrying a gun!"), and open up a whole can of worms as to how these home movies were taken, whether they were staged, how they were edited and packaged, etc. It will also open up for renewed discussion Kerry's actions in Vietnam, the statements he made on his return, and the Anti-War groups he associated himself with.
By showing the movie, he's making it all fair game.
With his "values" and "biography" maybe he ought to give a second thought to speaking about policy. After all, second thoughts are what he does best.
The fact that Edmonds is telling us that Kerry wrote the speech himself is rather interesting.
If it goes over well, then they can spin that ("see, our candidate can talk good....").
If it goes badly, they can a) distance themselves from it, and b) use it as a springboard for the inevitable "John Kerry finding his footing" stories once his handlers take over again.
Seeing as how it is allegedly short on specific details, I think they believe it will go well insofar as creating good feelings. Given that the whole DNC strategy seems to be "he's not George W. Bush," that's probably all we're going to get.
This is a mistake on Kerry's part. Nobody cares who he is as a person. We've had speaker after speaker in Passive-Aggressive Convention 2004 tell us about Vietnam Kerry, and how Kerry's foreign policy will be exactly like Bush's, except France will like us.
Going on night #4, it's time for specifics, or it won't be effective.
So ... this is going to be fifty-some minutes of "I served in Vietnam" and Bush bashing?
I understand the movie introducing him will have footage from Vietnam and bullets will be seen hitting water. The bullets were filmed for the movie and are not from Vietnam. The director is a Spielberg protege.
Here's a hint: there won't be much in the way of details.
The democrat party hacks NEVER do.