Kerry Nails It

I thought it was a truly great speech - I was more than just relieved and or surprised, I suddenly for the first time genuinely felt in my bones that this man deserves to be President on his own terms, and certainly deserves it so monumentally more than the man currently in office. Though I liked Gore a lot, I never had as much of a conviction that he was the stuff that presidents were made of. After this speech, my concerns about Kerry have vanished. Most importantly for those of us on the America-loving left, he absolutely and unapologetically threw down the gauntlet and more importantly started taking back the syntax that the Republican party has been so obnoxiously attempting to trademark as their own - patriotism, faith, honor, duty, true deep and genuine love for this amazing country. I was frankly worried I'd get sick about hearing about his service, but when I saw Max Cleland introducing him, I suddenly understood how important it all was, how the RNC and Karl Rove with the aide of its bleaters like Ann Coulter, Rush, and Sean Hannity, and the entire Fox brigade, as well as its dirty tricksters, the kind that would twist in their ad campaigns a patriot who had served, like Max Cleland, into a terrorist-coddling traitor, all of these cynical, so-called, self-proclaimed Christians had started to abuse such truly wonderful words and ideas for the sole cynical and reprehensible purpose of dividing this country firmly along partisan lines. And it was amazing, not just with Kerry's speech but certainly capped by it, to see the Democrats through the entire four days pushing that loathsome pile of rhetorical garbage out the window and onto the heads of the thugs that have propagated it in the first place. Kerry's line about never abusing the most important document in the land, the constitution, for political purposes, was priceless. Win or lose, he and so many of the speakers this week have cleared my head and helped me see the political morass in this country for what it really is. And when was the last time I was genuinely inspired by a political convention like I was by this one? Come to think of it – never.