George Bush gave a speech this morning (transcript here)
We have more to do to wage and win the war against terror. America’s future depends on our willingness to lead in the world. If America shows uncertainty and weakness in this decade, the world will drift toward tragedy.
BUSH: This will not happen on my watch.
The world [...]
Arnold Kling goes over the major points of Kerry’s speech last night.
I pretty much agree with everything he says.
Kerry gave his speech last night (transcript here.)
I’d say his presentation was ok, not great, but serviceable. As to the ideas expressed, I was disappointed. I heard lots of things that would be nice to have, but no real concrete ways to achieve them.
Oh, and John Kerry served in Vietnam. [...]
WSJ:
we all know that personal bravery is not the same as political leadership. The doubts about Mr. Kerry concern not his courage but his judgment and conviction, and have been formed as the result of public service that is far longer than his admirable four months in Vietnam. Those doubts are both political and philosophical.
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Mr. [...]
This can’t be good for the Democratic campaign.
As Sens. John Kerry and John Edwards arrived in Boston today for the Democratic National Convention, so did the California man who is their single biggest contributor.
He is Stephen Bing, a wealthy film producer who, with little fanfare, has managed to steer a total of more than $16 [...]
This TCS article by Bryan Preston is fascinating reading.
It is playing a key role in curbing and caging North Korean dictator Kim Jong-Il. It played a key role in disarming Libya, discovering and rolling up the Pakistani A.Q. Khan nuclear smuggling network, and has become a framework for international military and police exercises organized by [...]
John Edwards gave his speech tonight (transcript here). I was actually surprised that, after Obama speech last night, he used his two America’s speech again. He did try to meld it into a theme of two America’s becoming one America but I didn’t think that it worked very well. Also, Obama’s one [...]
CNN:
A piloted rocket ship race to claim a $10 million Ansari X Prize purse for privately financed flight to the edge of space is heating up.
Aerospace engineer, Burt Rutan, leader of Scaled Composites of Mojave, California, has formally announced a timetable for back-to-back flights of the firm’s SpaceShipOne rocket plane.
Rutan and his team have given [...]
Claudia Rosett:
Let’s get to the real point. George Bush has deeply irritated France. That would be more distressing were it not for the memory that the last time the French resented America this much was in the mid-1980s. That was when President Ronald Reagan was more intent on winning the Cold War than pleasing the [...]
Teresa Heinze Kerry’s speech (transcript here), much like Al Gore’s, was a disappointment for those of us hoping for some excitement from the convention. Nothing really weird or crazy. Oh well.
All in all it was a serviceable speech, nothing special.
