Category: Event blogging
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Do SecState’s usually avoid conventions?
Can we read anything into this report (Colin Powell will skip GOP convention)? Brings to mind Bill Maher’s recent quip about Keyes running for senator in Illinois, to the effect that the Republicans couldn’t find Osama, couldn’t find weapons of mass destruction, and couldn’t find an African-American in Chicago.
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Tom Tomorrow nails it
Dan Perkins on blogging the convention (WorkingForChange-This Modern World: The very nice Democratic convention): (via Matt Welch)
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Money quote
The future doesn’t belong to fear. It belongs to freedom. – John Forbes Kerry
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John Kerry. reporting for duty
Kerry looks very happy, energized by the welcome (photos to come), and at ease with the rhetoric of home, hearth, faith, and family. This is his one shot to introduce himself to the sliver of a sliver of the undecideds who are tuned in right now. After this it’s the other convention, the debates, perhaps…
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Alexandra Kerry humanizes her father
People critized Teresa Heinz Kerry for giving a substantive speech instead of the “he’s really a good guy” type of speech filled with heart-warming anecdotes. Daughter Alexandra seems to have remedied that situation, particular with her tale of a father giving mouth-to-mouth to his child’s waterlogged hamster. Jeff Jarvis concurs.
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Dvorak slams con bloggers
Film at 11. But at least now that Dvorak is himself a blogger, it means that he too must suck.