I have to amend my previous assessment about John Kerry’s speech. I had missed a lot of the build up beginning of his speech, and thanks to the youtube video of the speech over on Andrew Sullivan’s site I saw the whole thing. And there’s some really good stuff in there. He still sounds like a bit of a tool, but the words are there, and a lot of Biden’s more convincing rhetoric echoes this speech, though Biden’s delivery was better. But I was overly flippant about John Kerry’s speech which, when heard in its entirety, is really good and stands up to the others of the night.