When John Kerry got up there to speak with his insomnia-curing drawl, I thought I’d watch the old loser just from a sense of schadenfreude. But then his attack came out. It was interesting, potent and it had Michelle Obama rising to her feet. In fact, it struck me as the punchiest, hardest-hitting speech of the convention.
Who would have thought that dull old Kerry had it in him? He found a nice way of dealing with the Democrats key problem. McCain is – in Clinton’s own words – “a good man who loves his country.” But Kerry separated “Senator McCain” from “Candidate McCain” saying he’d mutated into a tool of the Republican party. He listed examples: “Candidate McCain now supports the wartime tax cuts that Senator McCain once denounced as immoral.
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