Based on Brit and panel on FoxNews, it sounds as if Kerry's speech is going to be 'typical Kerry'----long, dull, boring, uninspiring, yawn-fest, empty rhetoric, probably with a bunch of 'I have a plan' comments (no details, no specifics, of course).
Fred Barnes wonders when Kerry became such a war hawk after decades of being a liberal dove on all things related to war.
Mara Liason seems to be the only one who brought kneepads.
Even Mort Kondracke doesn't appear to except much from the speech.
How is this all sitting with the base up there? They hate the war!
HA! From the Kerry Spot at NRO.
http://www.nationalreview.com/kerry/kerryspot.asp
VANILLA MASHED POTATOES ON WHITE BREAD [07/29 06:01 PM]
The campaign has released about ten paragraphs of Kerry’s speech. Here’s the first two:
“This is the most important election of our lifetime. The stakes are high. We are a nation at war — a global war on terror against an enemy unlike any we have ever known before. And here at home, wages are falling, health care costs are rising, and our great middle class is shrinking. People are working weekends, they’re working two jobs, three jobs, and they’re still not getting ahead.”
“We can do better and we will. We’re the optimists. For us, this is a country of the future. We‘re the can-do people. And let‘s not forget what we did in the 1990s. We balanced the budget. We paid down the debt. We created 23 million new jobs. We lifted millions out of poverty and we lifted the standard of living for the middle class. We just need to believe in ourselves — and we can do it again.”
Maybe the rest is great, maybe my standards for the nominee’s convention speech are way too high. But my first impression is that most of these points have been said before at the convention, and they have been said more effectively.
These excerpts aren’t just vanilla. They’re vanilla mashed potatoes on white bread.
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