"Kerry Must Deliver 'Speech of His Life'" --- MEDIA

[liberalpragmatist]

This is the line the media's pushing, and it worries me. I'm getting VERY nervous about tonight. All you here on every network is that Kerry has to deliver *The Speech of His Life* or *The Best Speech He's Ever Given* or the fucking *Best Speech Since the Cross of Gold* (Okay, maybe I'm going a little bit too far)

I'm not usually a conspiracy-theorist, but I do think this is the line Bushco is pushing, so to set up impossibly high expectations that Kerry cannot then meet. It disgusts me. I just hope and pray he does well enough.

[NMDemDist2]

1. may I just reply "Bullshit"

the debates are the critical ones, tonight if for the choir :)

[RoundRockD]

5. I think they're foaming at the mouth in anticipation. They can't wait to

pan the speech and proceed to pen Kerry's presidential obituary. I've been mentally preparing myself all week.

[NMDemDist2]

21. the called him dead last winter too, and coroneted Dean too

and here we are :)

[seabeyond]

2. speech of my life they say, nah......this is not life and death, iraq

is life and death.................

and then go into his speech

[Greenbeard]

20. That would be great

Put all the media BS into perspective and then move forward with the speech. Not sure if Kerry has really caught on yet that he could say this and actually gain votes.

[Media_Lies_Daily]

3. Nonsense...all he has to do is get his message across with warmth.

[donco6]

4. The double standard is appalling.

Bush only has to escape without a major gaffe - like on the order of giving a Nazi salute; Kerry has to outperform God.

I frankly don't think that's true. Yes, his speech is important, but it's not that critical. The hatred of Bushco is running pretty deep. People just want CONFIRMATION that Kerry can pull it off. Is our trust in him warranted? Is he capable of carrying out the primary duties of president? That's what I think he should focus on.

[Granite]

19. God on a good day

I just put up a short blog saying the same thing. I'm not sure that Kerry can beat the expectations that have been set for him, even if he does, in fact, deliver the speech of his life.

[in_cog_ni_to]

6. Why must Kerry deliver the speech of his life

when we have the chimp who can barely speak english? Another double standard? I wish they would just SHUT THE FUCK UP!

[madaboutharry]

9. Yeah, all chimpy had to do

was not drool on himself. What assholes.

[dave29]

7. How about a speech about his life

I think that will do nicely

[Raven]

8. The debates are what the Repubs are really worried about.

Their candidate doesn't have much of a brain and what he does have is heavily medicated. Kerry is going to kill him in the debates and the Bush people know it. If I were Kerry, I would start out tonight saying, "Folks, I am not the greatest speaker in the world, but here is who I am and what I want to do."

[cheezus]

10. bull. he only has to do better than daily-show kerry

which just means he needs to speak faster

[shawmut]

11. Yup, and the Chimp only has to show up at the debates and they love him

[andino]

12. I know that he will try his best

I just hope that he is himself up there and the pundits can go f themselves.

[sandnsea]

13. I hope he does

But in the end, WE have to get out the vote and make sure every vote is counted.

[Randypiper]

14. Tom Tomorrow

[chelsea0011]

18. How true, isn't it?

[Kazak]

15. Blather blather blab...

:yawn:

[chelsea0011]

16. And when Bush does his RNC thing the media will say he just needs

to be standing when he finishes to accomplish everything.

[eaprez]

17. Wonder if there will be a TERRA alert during his speech?

[Booster]

22. I must admit it's worrisome that

his speech runs 55 minutes. If he doesn't grab everybody right off the bat, most won't stay with him for 55 minutes; that's a long damn speech. I hope he knocks their socks off for the entire time.