Did Al Gore really just say he was going to speak about John Kerry as a person and then proceed to rattle off a bunch of K-E campaign talking points?! Either the two didn’t know each other very well in the Senate, or the Kerry handlers have massaged his speech to death. He’s not as stiff as usual (the pundits now are effusing about how relaxed it was), but I’m reminded why he was such a poor candidate. At least by comparison, he’s making Kerry look like a charmer.
Kos has remarked that the Democrats are surprisingly on message, but this tension between reliving the 2000 election (including Gore overcompensating now for his shunning of Clinton four years ago) and sublimating anger into a collective telegenic display will likely be a running subtext of this convention.
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