The media is eating his speech up. As far as I have seen everyone calls it the best speech Kerry has ever given. CBS folks are calling it the best speech by any canidate in recent history.
EVERYONE is gushing... Let's not kid ourselves the media is going to go NUTS about it and is lapping it up.
They're really desperate to help the guy in any way possible. This one's about on the level with Dukakis' '88 "this election is about competence, not ideology" speech.