Remember: Zell Miller was THE KEYNOTE SPEAKER

Not just some cracker out of Georgia who happened to give a speech. You can bet your ass that this speech was vetted at the highest levels of the campaign. Websters' definition of keynote: A prime underlying element or theme. So the underlying element AND/OR theme of the republican party is ZELL MILLER.

the scarier it gets.

... the more i say "thank you, Zell"...

and the icing, cherry, whipped cream, and NUTS on top of the whole shabang... was the ZELLtdown he had all over Chris Matthews nice suit.

Zell's venom spewing speech....doesn't get a better summary in a such a display anywhere....The anger and venom dripping from his fangs was freaky....I have watched replays of that speech several times now and its unreal....then the comments to CNN, the fight with Chris Matthews on MSNBC....he's the face of the Republican Party, and his claims to be a Democrat would be like Stalin saying his a Quaker.....

I'm sure Cheney, Rove and Bush himself all had a hand in Zell's speech....this came from the top.....

a real ass of himself. If I were citizens of GA I would disown him.

even matt & katie would have 'tough' quesions like "what did you have for dinner before your speech" and things like that.

His butt is still burning from the whipping Cris Matthews gave him last night.

Alas, as a Georgian, I now know how humiliated decent Texans must feel.

years of life.

The trailer trash on the floor basically would have been a lynch mob....what an ugly spectacle....

Zell "Uncle Cornpone" Miller said that if he and Matthews lived in earlier times, he would have challenged him to a duel.

Has there ever been another political convention where the keynote speaker went mad in public?

He is a Dixiecrat. The last of them I hope. He is a pathetic old man.

Hey Zell! Strom had it right in 1948. I guess the B.O. stink in the closet finally did you in.

No one was surprised.

By every possible definition

The brilliance of the Rove team can’t be under-estimated. Think about it…This crowd has wanted to bash John Kerry with effervescent zeal since the campaign kicked off. Now WHO BETTER to trash everything John Kerry represents and is than “A DEMOCRAT.’

See, if we or the media call out the Republicans on their bash-fest, they will just say, “We’ll it was a Democrat” who said all those things. Of course, the media will lap that up like a thirsty kitten.

And the Goebbels committee is working hard. They then immediately after the convention trotted out a “focus group” to lend credibility to Miller’s horrific attack. What was most painful was the (in my opinion) pre-packaged comments from people stating that Miller’s statements had “more credibility” because they were from a Democrat.

Funny how that works. Everything ELSE said by a Democrat is met with disdain and scorn.

In the end, the Republicans bought a sellout to do their dirty work. Just as they employ covert propaganda hustlers to destroy Kerry’s reputation and service to this nation, they bring out this fascist “Democrat” to rip John Kerry on national TV. I listened to it and all I could hear was the screeching of hatred. It was an infantile and moronic speech laced with such divisive hatred that if the media would actually do their job and NOT SWEEP this verbal masturbation under the rug it would probably spell the end for Scrub.

Some genius.

Zell Miller: Now, while young Americans are dying in the sands of Iraq and the mountains of Afghanistan, our nation is being torn apart and made weaker because of the Democrat's manic obsession to bring down our Commander-in-Chief.
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Motivated more by partisan politics than by national security, today's Democratic leaders see America as an occupier, not a liberator. And nothing makes this Marine madder than someone calling American troops occupiers rather than liberators.
. . .

It is the soldier who salutes the flag, serves beneath the flag, whose coffin is draped by the flag who gives that protester the freedom to abuse and burn that flag.

No one should dare to even think about being the Commander in Chief of this country if he doesn't believe with all his heart that our soldiers are liberators abroad and defenders of freedom at home.

But don't waste your breath telling that to the leaders of my party today. In their warped way of thinking America is the problem, not the solution.

They don't believe there is any real danger in the world except that which America brings upon itself through our clumsy and misguided foreign policy.

It is not their patriotism - it is their judgment that has been so sorely lacking. They claimed Carter's pacifism would lead to peace. They were wrong.

They claimed Reagan's defense buildup would lead to war. They were wrong.

And, no pair has been more wrong, more loudly, more often than the two Senators from Massachusetts, Ted Kennedy and John Kerry.
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John Kerry, who says he doesn't like outsourcing, wants to outsource our national security.

That's the most dangerous outsourcing of all. This politician wants to be leader of the free world.

Free for how long?

For more than twenty years, on every one of the great issues of freedom and security, John Kerry has been more wrong, more weak and more wobbly than any other national figure. As a war protestor, Kerry blamed our military.

As a Senator, he voted to weaken our military. And nothing shows that more sadly and more clearly than his vote this year to deny protective armor for our troops in harms way, far-away.
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George Bush wants to grab terrorists by the throat and not let them go to get a better grip.

From John Kerry, they get a "yes-no-maybe" bowl of mush that can only encourage our enemies and confuse our friends . . . Right now the world just cannot afford an indecisive America. Fainthearted, self-indulgence will put at risk all we care about in this world.

(16 specific references to Kerry by name)

Barack Obama: In this election, we offer that choice. Our Party has chosen a man to lead us who embodies the best this country has to offer. And that man is John Kerry. John Kerry understands the ideals of community, faith, and service because they’ve defined his life. From his heroic service to Vietnam, to his years as a prosecutor and lieutenant governor, through two decades in the United States Senate, he has devoted himself to this country. Again and again, we’ve seen him make tough choices when easier ones were available.

His values — and his record — affirm what is best in us . . .Now let me be clear. Let me be clear. We have real enemies in the world. These enemies must be found. They must be pursued — and they must be defeated. John Kerry knows this.

And just as Lieutenant Kerry did not hesitate to risk his life to protect the men who served with him in Vietnam, President Kerry will not hesitate one moment to use our military might to keep America safe and secure.

John Kerry believes in America. And he knows that it’s not enough for just some of us to prosper. For alongside our famous individualism, there’s another ingredient in the American saga. A belief that we’re all connected as one people.

If there is a child on the south side of Chicago who can’t read, that matters to me, even if it’s not my child. If there’s a senior citizen somewhere who can’t pay for their prescription drugs, and has to choose between medicine and the rent, that makes my life poorer, even if it’s not my grandparent. If there’s an Arab American family being rounded up without benefit of an attorney or due process, that threatens my civil liberties.

It is that fundamental belief, it is that fundamental belief, I am my brother’s keeper, I am my sister’s keeper that makes this country work. It’s what allows us to pursue our individual dreams and yet still come together as one American family.

E pluribus unum. Out of many, one.

Now even as we speak, there are those who are preparing to divide us, the spin masters, the negative ad peddlers who embrace the politics of anything goes. Well, I say to them tonight, there is not a liberal America and a conservative America — there is the United States of America. There is not a Black America and a White America and Latino America and Asian America — there’s the United States of America.

The pundits, the pundits like to slice-and-dice our country into Red States and Blue States; Red States for Republicans, Blue States for Democrats. But I’ve got news for them, too. We worship an awesome God in the Blue States, and we don’t like federal agents poking around in our libraries in the Red States. We coach Little League in the Blue States and yes, we’ve got some gay friends in the Red States. There are patriots who opposed the war in Iraq and there are patriots who supported the war in Iraq.

We are one people, all of us pledging allegiance to the stars and stripes, all of us defending the United States of America. In the end, that’s what this election is about. Do we participate in a politics of cynicism or do we participate in a politics of hope?

John Kerry calls on us to hope. John Edwards calls on us to hope.

I’m not talking about blind optimism here - the almost willful ignorance that thinks unemployment will go away if we just don’t think about it, or the health care crisis will solve itself if we just ignore it. That’s not what I’m talking about. I’m talking about something more substantial. It’s the hope of slaves sitting around a fire singing freedom songs. The hope of immigrants setting out for distant shores. The hope of a young naval lieutenant bravely patrolling the Mekong Delta. The hope of a millworker’s son who dares to defy the odds. The hope of a skinny kid with a funny name who believes that America has a place for him, too.

(not one reference to Bush)

Zell should be in a home.

There's a magnificent contrast between the two, isn't there.
Miller's full of hatred. Obama's full of hope.

I like that.
I really, really like that.
It's sharp, effective, and lays it all out there.

Hate or Hope...you choose.