Reply #14: I must say that I disagree. Although the cable news fascists

[vickie]

limited the coverage of the speech, from what was shown, Kerry was collected, confident and spoke clearly about the direction he wanted the campaign to take - as well as his plans for the future.

Unfortunately the speech was cut off just as he was really getting into the strength of it (so I read the rest on his website). The decibal of Swift Boat chatter has also come down a bit since yesterday. Fox is still pounding it fairly hard, but the other cable channels are leading with the Prison Abuse and Najaf fiascos.

I think the GOP will want the Swifty mess to recede as well - because they can't want this to dominate their message next week. Today was the first day I felt like we were driving the discussion because I just saw Enron Eddie Gillespie (GOP Chair) dissembling and blathering on Faux regarding Kerry's charge of 'Smear and Fear'.