[goldstategop]

IEM and Tradesports are very reliable. Its not surprising President Bush regained the lead in the markets. The clearest real world indication John F*ckin's Le Pew speech at the Democratic Convention in Boston last week stunk.

[ambrose]

My gut reaction while watching was that the speech stunk. Lots of fluff, but no substance behind it, and poorly delivered. To the extent it had any positive effect, it was more like Chinese food... It would leave you feeling full for very long..

Thus, I was a bit surprised when all the talkingheads came in with it being a "homerun" - even some Republicans were saying so.

They need to get outside the Beltway a little more often..

[ScaniaBoy]

I didn't see Kerry's speech but I'm sure you're right - it stunk.

I've been traveling in Switzerland and Italy the last week and had to rely on TV for my news (ouch!).

Before the convention speech CNN boosted Kerry to the tops. I had therefore expected CNN International and the text TV to be full of quotes from Kerry's speech the morning after (it was of course held night time European time). Not so - the only quote was his first line about reporting for duty.

Eventually, after a day or so they did recover and starting to spin, but that was mostly directed against President Bush and not so much for Kerry. (One of the things they did was shorten down some clips from a what appeared to be a very good stump speech by Bush - in the first editions people booed when Bush mentioned Hollywood as the site of Americas heart and soul according to the Dems, and then rise up and shout and applaud when he said that he knew the heart and soul of the US where in towns like here in ... Missouri. In all the later editions all the audience reactions were edited out.)

Actually there were more news about Kerry's speech on the German and Swiss text-Tv channels. However, reading those comments it became quite clear why there were so few comments on CNN - not only did the speech appear to be devoid of any facts - those policy suggestions that where highlighted are hardly vote-winners at least in the US - tax increases, socialized health care - no better for the alphabet networks to forget the speech and let Kerry remain in anonymity - and continue the Bush bashing.

[zook]

Heard on the news this morning that Kerry said he'd fight the terror war "smarter" by using his "experience in Viet Nam." You just can't make this stuff up.