I will admit to being AWOL in terms of convention posts. I could use bloggers excuse #4 and say that I didn't post about it because so many other people were doing it and doing it better than I would have, but that would be BS, and we would all know it. Not to say that I would have done the convention better than any other blogger in the planet, just that the fact that someone else is writing about it has never stopped anyone with a blog - even me - from adding their two cents. The sad truth is I didn't watch much of it. I had fairly low expectations of how interesting it would be and from the bits I did watch and the coverage I saw, my expectations were fairly accurate.

I did catch some of Kerry's speech last night, but realized quickly that there was almost nothing coming out of his mouth that I had not heard before. I think the secret to really enjoying a national political convention is to completely tune out anything to do with the campaigns for the entire primary and pre convention season. That way, when the convention starts its all fresh new and exciting.

The one thing I can't help but wonder is how Kerry's statement that his service in Vietnam was defending his country is going to play out for the rest of the campaign. I happen to believe it to be the truth, but Kerry's record of having fought harder against the war than he did in the war makes me doubt that he does. And how will that statement sit with the rest of the anti-war anti-establishment crowd that is now the establishment of the Democratic Party?

The master of the flip, has now flopped on one of the Party's defining issues.

Posted by: Stephen Macklin at 03:52 AM | Comments (1) | Add Comment