seems like John Kerry came a little late to the game of political hardball. Just four years earlier, and he'd be gearing up for a landslide re-election. I'm sad Bob Shrum cut his balls off that year. Kerry woulda been a great Prez.

Wow.  An angry, vindicating Kerry.  Give em' hell, John...  They so had it coming.

Seriously, where the fuck did this guy come from?

Kerry good speaker?  

crazy world

in which candidates routinely lose elections, and have been doing so for nearly 30 years. Kerry woulda been an awesome President.

Wow, he is on fire. DAMN GOOD SPEECH so far. I wish he talked with this passion in 2004.

This is seriously Kerry's redemption, and the only one covering it is CSPAN.  Such a shame.

Wow, it is not an easy task to follow Bill. But Kerry is probably giving an even better speech. My God. This is a must see. If you are not watching it now, watch it!!!!. Or catch it on youtubbe.

Kicking ass. Joe Biden has his work cut out for him, too. Was nice to see Obama's great-uncle get a deserved shoutout.

As for where he was in 2004, I can only suggest that running for President drains you and makes you scared to say just about anything.

Delivery's still a little dry, but it is one of the best written speeches. He's following up Clinton's supergluing of McCain and Bush with a metaphorical spear through their chests so they can't get away from each other.

Also, he pulled out the flip-flopper card with self-deprecating humor, which was greatly appreciated on this end.

Unfortunately, MSNBC seems to think commercials and Olbermann are more important than the last Dem nominee at the Dem convention.

He sounds a bit too angry and seems to be still smarting from his loss.

But much better than ``Reporting for duty'' nonsense that he spoke 4 yrs ago

He sounds a bit too angry and seems to be still smarting from his loss.

But much better than ``Reporting for duty'' nonsense that he spoke 4 yrs ago

Why didn't we see that in 2004???

Oh, and I got no complaints about Michelle now. She got into the spirit of things. That's what we need more of.

I wasn't going to even log on tonight, but Kerry is fucking on fire!  I'm no rah-rah go-get-em-Dems kinda dude but I'm feeling this speech in the worst way.  Hitting McCain for betraying his stand against Rovian smears in 2000, calling out the merchants of fear or some such good phrase, spotlighting Obama's heroic uncle . . . great, great stuff.

Okay, I'll say it . . . . Rah!

WTF Kerry!

If he had half the cajones, half the fire he is showing tonight, he would have opened up a case of whoopass on Bush back in 04!

OK, somebody get the Clintons and Kerry out on the road TONIGHT!  They are all on fire.

Kerry was this good in 04, at least much of the time.  He's always been one of my favorites.  I think the press as much as the GOP showed him through such a terrible filter. Sigh.

I've never seen Democrats so on-message as today.  It bodes well for the election.  

CNN claims they know who McCain's VP is, but won't say... is there any scuttlebutt on this from other sources?

I'll catch it later on DemConvention.com, because MSNBC is being annoying.

But there were two highlights with the talking heads:

1. Chris Matthews jumped to Hillary's defense when the Repub strategist said that Hillary and Bill would vote for McCain. The exact line, when the Repub said the crowd was in the tank for Obama and wasn't being reasonable, was something to the effect of "where would you ever find a sane crowd that would agree with you?"
   
2. The same Repub gave the Bush administration a C over the last eight years, at which point one of the DNC officials stated "That's some major grade inflation."

I wish this speech had come on another night.  I don't know about the nets or Fox or CNN but MSNBC had 0 coverage of it... I didn't know he was speaking until I saw him in the background and changed to the DNC feed.     This should have been seen by 20 plus million.

DId anyone see it on the networks?

The title "best" has to go to his Senate testimony concerning the Winter Soldier Investigation.
 Read it here: http://facultystaff.richmond.edu/~ebolt/ history398/JohnKerryTestimony.html
 Watch it here: http://www.democracynow.org/2004/2/20/jo hn_kerry_then_hear_kerrys_historic

Regardless of the traction the Swiftboat Liars got (which shows how readily some people in this country can be stirred up to feel Nixonian contempt for real patriots), I have to believe that, if every voter could have been compelled to watch Kerry's testimony, the majority would have been moved to tears, not to mention voted for the good man.

It is DNC
Democratic National Convention

NOT

DCCC
Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee.

He he is the lasr Dem candidate, he got more votes than any other Democrat in history, and he was SUPER SOLID for Obama during the primaries.   For all that he got the backseat at this convention from Obama's people.