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Jul 28, 2004
politics III
My first midnight blog. On tonights Democratic convention, I only caught 1 speech: Teresa Hienz Kerry. Apparently I missed some good stuff from Howard Dean and a couple of others. Anyway, I left with a favorable impression of Mrs. Kerry. In fact, if he husband were half as interesting as her ,well, I won't go into that just yet. I'll wait for his speech on Thursday. Anyway, I found Mrs. Kerry to be very articulate, intellegent, and the tone of her speech was not nearly as mean-spirited as some of the others thus far. That's not to say that I agreed with her on every issue she raised. But, I didn't get the sense that I was being called an idiot for holding the veiws that I held. Anyway, I was somewhat suprised. In previous interviews, I just get the sense that she just doesn't like the whole politics thing. In fact, she explicitly stated it in one interview. And, when she told the reporter to shove it the other night, I thought that she was headed for the edge. Put, she really pulled it together tonight. Of course, the Fox news reporters ripped her, which kind of suprised me, but I guess I should be. But, as far as politics goes, for me, that was NOT the highlight of the evening. For most of you, this won't mean much, but for me it was classic. Kentucky govenor Ernie Fletcher was on Jay Leno's show tonight. Last week, Leno made a joke about Kentucky's search of a new tourism slogan (according to Leno, that was to replace the current slogan, "Got Teeth?" Ole Ernie didn't take to well to it, so he wrote a letter to Mr. Leno, who invited him onto the show. So tonight, Mr. Governor went. Leno made a few more Kentucky jabs, then Fletcher took a few shots at LA. I must say, I have never been more proud to be from Kentucky as I am tonight. By the way, in case you were wondering, this is not the same governor that got caught in the sex scandal a couple of years ago. All which goes to show, "Education Pays!" (7.75 an hour in my case!) posted
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