Aiiieeee, my eyes!

Please close your italics tag, it's driving me batshit.

I love you Ace, but your italics are broken

No, they've been fixed for a while. Refresh.

"Where were the fuckin' ballons? What was going on there? When the music cues you drop the ballons... Where were you?!"

"Well, I was waiting... I thought..."

"You thought?! You thought? You had five goddamn thoughts tonight! When I say, drop, you drop! The speech ends, the music comes up and the ballons drop... that's just.. the.. way.. it.. is!"

"Lemme ask you, do you like your jobs? Cause I saw some lose shit out there tonight. Is Teresa Hienz Kerry good for her money? When you lay down $3.50 for a bottle of Heinz 57 do you get a bottle of toilet water? No! You get a damn fine steak sauce condiment. Well, I expect you to pay back what we pay you in performance!"

"Where's Joe Wilson?"

We will fight a smarter war on terror. We will employ every weapon in our arsenal-- economic as well as military. Principle as well as firepower.

I DON'T GET IT. ARE WE GOING TO TAX THE TERRORISTS? THAT WOULD MAKE MORE SENSE TO ME.

I hope some GOP operatives were on balloon duty.

Amen, Ace.

We are stardust
We are golden
We are caught in the devil's parlor
And we've got to get ourselves
Back to the garden

Who exactly was that hippie crap for, anyway? All those filthy old flower children are already on board, and while they may have had a purpose, no one wants a damn hippie making decisions for the country.

My comments to my friends this morning, which I'll share here.

First, the speech was overwrought, overlong, cliched, and poorly delivered. Other than that, I felt the Senator did a fine job.

Second, I will permit myself only one observation about the policy discussed in the speech, on that least favorite subject of mine, the war.

The Senator said that the intelligence in Iraq was wrong, and that under his leadership America will only go to war if we must, and that we will only go to war on the basis of good intelligence.

Please explain how as president the Senator will be able to successfully judge the veracity of any future intelligence, when he himself misjudged the intelligence presented leading up to the war in Iraq, as represented in his vote for the war, not to mention a decade's worth of statements during the Clinton Administration supporting regime change in Iraq? Hw could he be sure he was not being fooled again by his "reformed" intelligence agencies? Given that perfect intelligence does not exist anyways, a president will require the courage to risk making what hindsight may think is the wrong call. Does this mean that we must always retaliate -- i.e., wait to be attacked-- and never preempt? Can we ever attack if provoked?

I'm just curious.

Dave
Arlington, Virginia

So I'm sitting there, watching the Kerry speech and I'm struck by the following passage:

"And now it's our time to ask: What if?

What if we find a breakthrough to cure Parkinson's, diabetes, Alzheimer's and AIDs? What if we have a president who believes in science, so we can unleash the wonders of discovery like stem cell research to treat illness and save millions of lives?

What if we do what adults should do – and make sure all our children are safe in the afternoons after school? And what if we have a leadership that's as good as the American dream – so that bigotry and hatred never again steal the hope and future of any American?"

Now, just for a lark, I decided to add the word "Imagine" in to all the spots where he says "What if".

I came up with the following:

"Imagine we believe in science,
and the wonders of discovery too,
Curing Aids and Alzheimers,
With stem cells isn't hard to do.

Imagine there's no children,
unsafe after school.
Imagine that our leaders,
eliminated hatred too.

You may say, I'm a dreamer.
But I'm not the only one.
I hope some day, you'll join us.
And John Edwards and I can live as one."

I mean, seriously, didn't that section of the speech read like a lost Lennon verse?

Phil, that was beautiful. I'll go puke now.

LMAO: "... that was beautiful. I'll go puke now." I'm stealing that line!

The thing that really bothered me about Frenchy's speech was how poorly it was delivered. He stammered over his first line and raced through the rest of it. On top of that, he had this fidgety nervous energy with his hands (even when they showed him from the side, he kept shuffling his feet) and was sweating like a pig the entire time. Maybe I'm being shallow here but to me he seemed like a guy that appeared to be in way over his head and lacked the confidence needed to do the job. For all the talk about W being a poor speaker, at least he speaks with conviction and a sence of purpose. In Kerry's first chance to appear Presidential to the nation, I think he totally bombed. Personally, I found his delivery and body language so distracting that it was hard to concentrate on what he was saying.

I agree with ya, TBR. That passage made me ill, too. I just underscored how hippy-dippy, power to the people, all we are saying is give peace a chance, the Kerry speech really was.

Hell, I half expected Yoko to walk out during the balloon drop, only to have her and John reintroduce "bagism" to a whole new generation.

Embassies bombed in Uzbekistan... guess it's OK to respond now. Or not.

Convention Haiku.
Loose shit;

Wild Reeds dancing in Summer Storm

Global warming ends
When Kerry is elected;
Teresa's nucking futs

Wait, they already had the Democratic Convention? I thought that was an assemblage of The Aquarian Tabernacle Church.

"Among our people there are some yet who speak with the Moon and dance with the Horned One in the forest. These are the Wicca, our clergy, the leaders in the Old Ways. Deep and often inscrutable, they are recognizable only by our own kind by the light in their eyes, the lilt of their voice, the love in their heart, the magic in their hands and their knowledge of themselves and of our realities."

Talking to the Moon? Dancing with the Horned One?

Are you certain that was the DNC?