A hundred thousand balloons are stuck on the Fleet Center ceiling!!!
HAHAHAHAHAHA!!!
P.S. The convention director said “f*ck” on CNN!
P.P.S. The balloons and confetti now appear, finally, to be dropping from the ceiling correctly.
Is it just me, or is it a really bad sign that the post-speech balloon drop contained much more drama than the speech itself?
UPDATE: Glenn Reynolds says it was “a not-bad speech, badly delivered. It was short on substance, and long on cliches, but nomination acceptance speeches often are. It was too long, and his delivery was rushed. I don’t think it will swing the momentum in his favor, which is what he needed. It may turn some people off.”
Polipundit writes:
[H]is speech writers have made the fatal mistake of “dumbing down” his speech. Rather than “letting Kerry be Kerry,” they’ve tried to make him sound like George W. Bush or John Edwards. With the result that Kerry is delivering one of the worst acceptance speeches in recent memory. … This is an unmitigated disaster for the Kerry campaign. His convention bounce is going to be nowhere near as large as I feared it would be. … As a conservative, I’m loving this nationally televised self-destruction of an ultra-liberal Democrat. … Kerry is old, craggy, negative, and finished. His only hope is to turn it around in the presidential debates. And to hope that the GOP stumbles in its convention.
Ed Morrissey: “He learned nothing from Obama or even Edwards. He’s not talking with people, or even to people, but at people. … ‘Help is on the way’ - now it’s help? Last night it was ‘hope.’ No wonder they have trouble staying on message.”
Stephen Green: “‘I’m John Kerry, and I’m reporting for duty.’ Not only was that cheap and tacky (like his tie, which is at least expensive), but he delivered a limp-writsted salute.” (Photo here.)
Phil, a commenter on InstaPundit: “This was for sure my favorite part: ‘We will double our special forces to conduct terrorist operations.’ — John Kerry.”
Watching CNN, I get the sense that the pundits are trying desperately to pretend that it was a good speech.
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July 29th, 2004 at 8:39:31 pm
Uh-oh. The ballons were stuck. We all know what happened the last time that occured. Jimmy Carter in 1980. Is this an omen?
July 29th, 2004 at 9:41:53 pm
I think the convention director needs a time out.
July 29th, 2004 at 10:38:49 pm
WAW HAW HAW Andrew, very Good, you sardonic divil, you. :)
“… Jimmy Carter in 1980. Is this an omen?”
Yes it is, J O. It portends that another failed incumbent President is about to be denied a second term. :)
I disagree about Kerry’s speech, Brendan. I thought it was good.
Just as I commented re Lieberman, oratorically Kerry is not a WJ Clinton (actually he’s more comparable to an HR Clinton in this respect), nor an Obama, an Edwards, even a Teddy back in his Day. :) But — we KNEW that. Expecting him to suddenly become Ronald Reagan, stylistically, is to Raise the Bar too high.
“…speech writers have made the fatal mistake of ‘dumbing down’ his speech. Rather than ‘letting Kerry be Kerry,’ they’ve tried to make him sound like George W. Bush or John Edwards.”
(1) George W. Bush, he should be so lucky, does not sound in any way like John Edwards. (2) Balderdash. If Kerry had delivered a rarefied philosophical disquisition these bozos would be snickering, “Such Nuance. So French. So erudite. Move over, Adlai Stevenson.” (Whose 1952 acceptance speech I heard on CSPAN 2 the other day btw. Remarkable! :)
I think Kerry was Good Enough. Of course I’m biased. (Yes, Brendan, both Mom and I thought Teresa was good, too. Saw nothing wrong with her speech at all. :) Well, we shall See.