{"id":69,"date":"2008-08-28T18:19:00","date_gmt":"2008-08-28T23:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/2008\/08\/28\/the-best-convention-speech-no-one-heard\/"},"modified":"2008-08-28T18:19:00","modified_gmt":"2008-08-28T23:19:00","slug":"the-best-convention-speech-no-one-heard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/2008\/08\/28\/the-best-convention-speech-no-one-heard\/","title":{"rendered":"The Best Convention Speech No One Heard"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.americanrhetoric.com\/images\/johnkerry2004dnc.jpeg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt;float: left;width: 320px\" src=\"http:\/\/www.americanrhetoric.com\/images\/johnkerry2004dnc.jpeg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div>John Kerry was mad and he wasn&#8217;t going to take it anymore!  Wow!  Yesterday&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/video.google.com\/videosearch?q=kerry%20convention%20speech&amp;ie=UTF-8&amp;oe=utf-8&amp;rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&amp;client=firefox-a&amp;um=1&amp;sa=N&amp;tab=wv#\">speech<\/a> at the Democratic National Convention was a barn burner!  Where was this guy in 2004?  Ya think he feels a bit responsible for the last four years?<\/p>\n<p>For someone who was supposedly entertaining the idea of selecting John McCain as a running mate in 2004, he sure lit into him.  I think drawing the distinction between &#8220;Senator McCain&#8221; and &#8220;Candidate McCain&#8221; was something the Obama people better insert into his stump speech right away.<\/p>\n<p>Kerry was brilliant (I never thought I&#8217;d ever utter those words).   And he actually showed passion and humanity.  He was even self deprecating about his 2004 defeat by ending his attack on McCain with &#8220;Talk about &#8216;I voted for it before I voted against it!&#8217;  Give me a break&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Of course, CNN decided that Wolf Blitzer&#8217;s blabbering on about the &#8220;best team on television&#8221; or how you can get all the speeches on cnn.com was more compelling television, so only the voluminous C-SPAN audience got a sniff of the red-meat.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Kerry was mad and he wasn&#8217;t going to take it anymore! Wow! Yesterday&#8217;s speech at the Democratic National Convention was a barn burner! Where was this guy in 2004? Ya think he feels a bit responsible for the last four years? For someone who was supposedly entertaining the idea of selecting John McCain as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":129,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/129"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}