Kerry's speech

[phantom power]

Hearing this from a presidential candidate felt like rain after a drought

Kerry:
So much promise stretches before us. Americans have always reached for the impossible, looked to the next horizon, and asked: What if?

Two young bicycle mechanics from Dayton asked: What if this airplane could take off at Kitty Hawk? It did that and changed the world forever. A young president asked: What if we could go to the moon in 10 years? And now we're exploring the solar system and the stars themselves. A young generation of entrepreneurs asked: What if we could take all the information in a library and put it on a little chip the size of a fingernail? We did, and that too changed the world forever.

And now it's our time to ask: What if?

What if we find a breakthrough to cure Parkinson's, diabetes, Alzheimer's and AIDS? What if we have a president who believes in science, so we can unleash the wonders of discovery like stem cell research to treat illness and save millions of lives?

[livetohike]

1. Kerry was brilliant

Who can argue with that?

[phantom power]

2. Brilliant, and brave

That excerpt alone is guaranteed to alienate a lot of people.

But the democrats have been trying to appease those people for so long, it just feels *good* to see Kerry draw a line in the sand. We stand for these things, and if some people don't, well then so be it.

[NNadir]

3. How desperately we need a President who can think!

How desperately we need a President who can respect science!

Go John go!