Burnt Orange Report

U-S-A U-S-A U-S-A!!!!!!!!

It feels SO GOOD to have our country back!!!!!!

See ya Bushie.

The speech was fantastic. You could not help but feel some optimism about the future. It was also really funny to see Ed Gillespie on CNN trying to spin it. "He really is sort of pessimistic about the economy. But I don't want to steal this from him. This is his night."

Yes, suddenly Kerry's face became familiar tonight, he woke me up, broke on through real big with that line about praying that we are on God's side. Love your coverage BTW..;)

I have to agree. I'm not a fan of Kerry, but was very impressed with this speech.

Kerry was sweating profusely on the stage, literally. He looked like Richard Nixon during his debate with JFK. They needed to crank up the AC and the fan. Also while I was watching CNN, the stage manager was accidentally miked up and heard saying "what the F*ck are you guys doing up there, drop all balloons and confetti now". Other than that, it was a good speech. Clinton is still the best speechmaker though that the dems have.

I can't believe all that I have seen this week in the DNC party. I have been cynical of politics since Bush 41 took office, but this is really a joke.

The DNC accuses Bush of not telling the truth about Iraq. Yet I have heard more half truths and outright distortions this week than I have since the Monicagate investigation.

Did Mr. Clinton reiterate his comments from 1998 charging Saddam with posession of WMD and calling him a threat to the US? Did VP Gore look at his "Board of Director" campaign donors before accusing the Republicans helping all of their rich corporate friends. Does anyone really read the IRS revenue statisics that clearly show that the code changes from 18 months ago FAVOR the middle class and expand the percentage of poor who pay NO TAXES AT ALL.

I did not hear much this week that has been based in reality and I doubt that I will from the Republicans as well.

We will see.

The DEMS are on FIRE!!!!!

Time to take it to 1600 PA Ave!

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Go Kerry!

Am I the only one that was bored with the speech? Kerry is one of the worst speakers ever. True, he hit some good points...the fluffy liberal lines any candidate would say...but the overall speech was long-winded, arrogant, and had very little actual policy in it. Help is on the way? I never knew Kerry was the Savior of Mankind.
I slept through most of it, and nearly passed out reading the transcript this morning. If Democrats had been smart they would have picked Edwards as the nominee. BUT, then again, Democratic voters are not usually that smart.

I was eating dinner at a Mexican restaurant while John Kerry was speaking, and every TV in the place was tuned to him. Additionally, every person in the place watched him with rapt attention (except the cooks, but they did turn down their music so they could hear him).

I have been a hard-core Deaniac since last September, and only recently reconciled to the idea of seeing Kerry in the White House instead of my man. Now, though, after last night's excellent speech, I feel like I can commit my heart to Kerry's campaign. It was a tremendous speech, and the use of U2's "Beautiful Day" afterward was both inspired and incredibly appropriate (and made me well up with tears, but that's not hard to do).

Also, I realized I have a right to brag: I met John and Teresa in Iowa last November after the Jefferson-Jackson Dinner. After last night's speech, it suddenly struck me that I have shaken the hand of the future President of the United States of America. =)

Thanks for the excellent reporting, Byron & Karl-T! I look forward to seeing you at events when y'all get back home to Texas.

boy you need to read some more speeches if you think this one was the 'best'.

put away your dnc convention pins for just a second and realize that these conventions (both gop and dem) are nothing more than week long infomercials.

the only thing missing is cher or victoria principal interviewing some less than pretty person.

someone like... theresa heinz kerry? "my pumpkin spice cookie recipes always failed until i added a teaspoon of proactiv skin care". thanks, cher (applause).

the speech mirrored such an infomercial: way too long and retread lines from other infomercials past.

look back at any challenging pres. candidate over the last 24 years, you'll see the same exact phrases about 'integrity, allies, promise, hope, jobs, restore this, restore that". don't believe me? do some research on clinton, dole, reagan's nomination speeches (and i think they were ALL shorter than kerry's).

i'm voting for the guy, but that speech was way too light on foreign policy (other than parsing the past and hinting by 'allies' he means france and germany). honestly people are more interested in how he's going to prevent something like 9.11, not how he's going to respond after the fact, and how he would do it better than a bushie.

while i understand the need to seem hawkish, i saw nothing of this in this time-hog of a speech and see nothing of it in his platform.

and that, my friends, is sKerry.

I thought that Kerry did in fact offer some solutions to preventing another attack when he refered to the lack of port security.

Kerry's speech accomplished exactly what he needed to-- he pulled to the center while delicatley holding onto the left. This was masterful!

Now the trick will be for both Kerry and Edwards to maintain the "hope is on the way" idea without it seeming like a broken record or fluffy empty promises. I think the way to do that would be to elaborate more specifically about policy.

Everyone gripes that Kerry doesn't offer much specifics on the Iraq situation. The thing is he can't really because no one knows what the situation will be in January 2005. Plus as President he would have access to information that may not now be available that perhaps would inform his decisions. So at this point all he can really offer is a general idea of more international participation, something that may allready be in place when he assumes office.

I lean towards the green party, am pretty anti-military, go to U.T., and have been an athiest since the age of 12.

After seeing the speech, I'm a strong democrat, and I've got this weird unnatural urge to move to Massachusetts and sign up as an army chaplain in the Roman Catholic Church.

It's that good.

I agree, John Kerry's speech was great. I think it served to dispell a lot of misconceptions about Kerry. He seemed very earnest as he always does, but his speech also embodied the humanity that was the essence of Clinton's speeches. It was touching without being smarmy, and he came off very erudite but still accessible.