I NEED A DRINK

One hour ... that's how long we sat in the penalty box at Logan airport yesterday waiting to get into the air and head for Atlanta.  No ... it wasn't the airline's fault.  Flow control.  Weather.  I'll assume it was all necessary.  I will say this.  At least the flight attendants allowed us to recline our seats while we were waiting.  I've been on airplanes headed to Atlanta where the flight attendants told us we had to put our seatbacks in an upright position somewhere over Oklahoma City.

So .. this morning I am truly beat up.  You're not going to get that many program notes ... but I'm loaded for bear when the mic switch is thrown.

No ... I'm not going to name the third-world hotel we stayed at in Brookline.  I'm not going to name it because the staff was so wonderful.  How sad that such a good group of employees have to continually make excuses for such a pitiful hotel.  Oh well.  That's just me trying to be nice.

I note this morning that the Miss America pageant isn't going to televise the "talent" competition this year.  Oh yes they are.  They wouldn't dream of cutting out the swimsuit competition.

Ok ... I gotta get out of the hot tub and head to work.  See you on the radio. 

THE POODLE'S -- BEST IN SHOW -- THE DEMOCRATIC SHOW, THAT IS

Last night John Kerry rushed through his 55 minute speech accepting the Democratic Party's nomination for president of the United States.  He kicked off his address by saluting the crowd and saying "I'm John Kerry, and I'm reporting for duty."  So there you go.  He sure didn't wait long to bring up his military service.  And why not?  What else does he have?  Is he going to brag about his National Journal rating as the most liberal member of the U.S. Senate? 

There was a lot of nonsense in his speech, let's get to it.

Right off the bat, he says "we are here tonight because we love our country."  Nice try, but I'm not buying it.  John Kerry was there last night because he wants power.  He's not unique in that respect .. the same is true of most politicians.   As a voter you should realize this.  With few exceptions, the only reason your hero is running for anything is because they want the prestige and power that goes with holding political office.  So ignore this "I love my country" stuff and concentrate on what this person is going to do when he actually gets that power he covets so much.

He also asked people to judge him by his record.   How about judging him by his Senate voting record, the most liberal voting record in the United States Senate.  This supposedly patriotic Democrat voted for the nuclear freeze, to cut the intelligence budget and also voted against the $87 billion in funding for American troops.  Maybe we can judge him by his record of missing 29 out of 38 meetings of that intelligence committee he served on in the Senate.  Maybe we can judge him on his record of 20 years in the U.S. Senate without a noteworthy legislative accomp0lishment.  He wants people to judge judge him by his record?  So what does he mention when he said that?  His voting record?  His lies about soldiers committing atrocities during Vietnam?  Nope..he goes all the way back to his days as a prosecutor, then mentions only two votes in the Senate...voting for a balanced budget, and that 100,000 police officers on the streets bill.  That, as you now know, was really just a partially funded mandate to the states.   And of course, he threw in John McCain's name.  How convenient.

Then,  he accused President Bush of misleading us into war, which is a widely discredited charge.  I tried for four days broadcasting from the DNC convention to find some Democratic spokesman who could tell me just how Bush "misled" us ... no takers.   President Bush and Tony Blair have both been exonerated against any sort of misleading, since they relied on the intelligence at the time.  Oh, and you do know that The Poodle voted for the war in Iraq and that the weapons of mass destruction have been found, don't you?

The Souffle also used the dumb slogan "stronger at home and respected in the world."  If you read between the lines, what he means is more government spending at home, and more appeasing and capitulating to the Axis of Weasels abroad.  Speaking of spending, the Johns really want to expand the size and scope of the federal government that would make the spendaholic George W. Bush look tight-fisted in comparison.

Some of his spending plans?  Well, The Poodle believes everyone has a right to health care.  Any idea how much that would cost?  He didn't say.... but cost-of-government experts are saying plenty.  Kerry's government paid health care plan would cost ... hold your breath ... one trillion dollars.   Where is he going to get that money?  The rich?  Nuh-uh...it's going to come from the middle class.  The reason is simple...you could confiscate 100% of the wealth from the evil rich and it wouldn't cover sKerry's spending dreams.

Also, he says he will not privatize Social Security.  That alone should be enough to send him packing.  That the government continues to confiscate 15% of your income in one of the biggest legalized scams in history is a travesty.  It has become nothing more than an inter-generational wealth transfer.

Then he had the nerve to bring up dependence on foreign oil....but of course would oppose any drilling for oil here in the United States.  How about promoting nuclear power, John?  Too bad the liberals and the anti-capitalist environmentalists are the ones that have us dependent on foreign oil in the first place.

What a sham....but now you have a choice.

WHERE ARE THE BALLOONS?

http://www.democrats.org/blog/" />Gotta love it when something like this happens.  Last night, after The Poodle finished his speech in Boston, just like past conventions, they were supposed to release balloons in the Fleet Center.  Apparently there was some miscommunication, because it wasn't happening fast enough for Convention Director Don Mischer who was captured live on CNN saying the following:

"We need all of them coming down. Go balloons- balloons? What's happening balloons? There's not enough coming down! All balloons, what the hell! There's nothing falling! What the f---- are you guys doing up there? We want more balloons coming down, more balloons. More balloons. More balloons..."

CNN apologized, and another DNC official tried to save face by saying they planned it that way, that they wanted the balloons released slowly so that they lasted a long time.  Suuure...if that were the case, I think the convention director would have known. My goodness!  If they're going to lie about a balloon drop ... where does it go from there?

Somebody was asleep at the switch...must've been a couple of union guys.

PARTY UNITED? YEAH RIGHT......

All we've been hearing from the Democrats and the mainstream media is how united their party is behind John Kerry.  They would have us believe that everyone is so enthusiastic about The Poodle, that they have somehow forgotten what they believe and are fully on board with everything the ticket stands for.  Nothing could be further from the truth.

The fact is, the Democratic party is only united behind sKerry because of one characteristic: he's not George W. Bush.  By just listening to my show this week you found out that these people don't have a real clue about  Kerry, or his voting record, or his position on the issues.  They are motivated by hate and hate alone.

All these liberals lining up behind The Poodle didn't even know who he was a few months ago.  Back in February, Howard Dean was their guy.  The only thing they have to hang their hat on is their hatred for George W. Bush.  A poll of delegates at the convention shows that they support bringing the troops home right away and abandoning Iraq.  That's not Kerry's position, but they don't care.

John Kerry might as well change his name to Not Bush.

NEAL RECOMMENDS... Weapons of Mass Distortion : The Coming Meltdown of the Liberal Media L. Brent Bozzell

READING ASSIGNMENTS

Here is the full text of The Poodle's acceptance speech at the Democratic National Convention.

Here's the MP3 file of the convention director ranting and raving about the balloons.  (Contains a naughty word.)

In case you missed them, Neal's convention pictures.

John Kerry left a large hole in his resume last night during his speech...as the AP reports.  Yes, the Associated Press is the source of this story...apparently a conservative broke into their offices and filed it.

ABC News is reporting that the Democrats' biggest money man has mob connections.  Bada Bing.

NASA says the Kerry campaign asked for the bunny suit photos, and that there were no dirty tricks involved.

'Fahrenheit 911' is being shown on state-run television in Cuba.  Sounds just like Michael Moore's kind of audience.

Even though the mainstream media continues to ignore them, many Vietnam veterans oppose Kerry and will never forgive him for accusing them of being baby killers and war criminals.

The Socialists and the Communists have endorsed The Poodle.  As the saying goes, misery loves company.

Ron Reagan's speech to the DNC was cynical and cruel, writes Michael Fumento, calling it an exploitation of his father, and of science.  A fascinating rebuttal to all of this stem cell nonsense.

Less televised coverage is proving to be a positive for Democrats, after all it kept Al Gore and Jimmy Carter from speaking to a national audience. Peter Beinart explains.

The media is in love with The Poodle, and you can tell just by turning on a television set.  The Media Research Center has the examples.

Professor Mike Adams has some questions for PETA...I wonder if they'll answer?

The Democrats did a good job at their convention of pretending to be someone else.  Jonah Goldberg was there, and has this report.

The entire Democratic National Convention was a slickly orchestrated sham, says David Limbaugh, who also says Kerry is now pretending to be a hawk on national security.

The Poodle is projecting an image at the convention that bears no resemblance to the facts, mainly his voting record in the Senate.  Thomas Sowell breaks it down.

Why was Al Sharpton allowed to speak at the DNC, yet Michael Dukakis was not?  Because the Democratic party secures its base through lies, as Mona Charen explains.

The Tampa police department sent out letters to those with outstanding arrest warrants promising them a prize.  11 showed up and were arrested.

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