Go here (scroll down to just above the Money Watch) and you can watch part of Barack Obama and Teresa Heinz Kerry's speeches. Obama's is especially worth watching.
And here's text of the speeches.
Teresa Heinz Kerry
Ron Reagan, who spoke about stem-cell research
Poliblog must admit, he never thought the stem-cell issue would amount to anything, but Ronald Reagan's funeral (ironically enough, for Republicans) seems to have mattered in this debate. Nancy and Ron Reagan have been very public on the issue, and very public in their criticism of President Bush's decision to stop federal funding for stem cell lines not already in existence.
Barack Obama
Watching Obama, the Illinois senate candidate now running unopposed, Poliblog was reminded of Norman Mailer writing about Eugene McCarthy at the 1960 Democratic convention. He compared McCarthy to a bullfighter, as Mailer would. "...gathering (the crowd's) emotion, discharging it, creating new emotion on the wave of the last, driving his passes tighter and tighter as he readied for the kill."
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