Convention if Over - Boston Still Standing
Last night, in his biggest political speech ever, John "Blood and Guts" Kerry, along with the ten or twelve men he served with in Vietnam who have been surgically attached to the nominee's hip for the campaign as a sign of their support, told the American people why he should be president: So George Bush won't be.

That in a nutshell is the Democratic platform: To get George Bush and Dick Cheney out of the White House (although Cheney, for the record, is already out of the White House, spending most of his time in a secret, undisclosed location located at 16 Secret Drive, Undisclosed, Penn.) They would have rallied behind a chimp, if they thought the chimp had a chance to beat George Bush. Heck, they almost picked Howard Dean.

What the Democrats gathered here in historic "Beantown" discovered to their amazement this week was that John Kerry could actually win. And possibly could be a good president. They also discovered that while John Kerry had come off as aloof and stiff before, he is no Al Gore - the human wooden plank. Last night they saw the fighter in John Kerry, appearing before the crowd and announcing that he was "reporting for duty" then staring at the crowd with his big, sad, basset hound eyes.

This ain't no Clinton-Dole contest, kids. This is the real thing.

As for the convention, it was a success in that nothing major happened, such as a terrorist attack or traffic. With the convention over and residents and commuters still away on vacation, it would be a good time for Mayor Menino to give the town a good scrubbing and clean back in the corners and under the benches.

No word yet on if captive Sen. John Glenn will be forced on the Kerry-Edwards Campaign Love Train, Planes and Automobiles Tour. According to my wife, she heard that Ben Affleck was going. Are you thinking what I'm thinking? The 2016 Democratic dream ticket: Obama-Affleck!