On this night four years ago, I was getting depressed. The Convention wasn’t going well for me, and when Kerry rolled out his "band of brothers," I didn’t believe him. I just wasn’t able to see macho war hero as a mantle that would get him elected. As time passed and he appeared wind surfing and duck hunting, my spirits fell even further. I would have supported the Marquis de Sade over Bush, but the Kerry campaign seemed doomed. When Bush was re-elected, I had the only clinical depression of my adult life.
Tonight I feel differently. I thought John Kerry, Bill Clinton, and Joe Biden were all three substantive and eloquent speakers. But most of all, I thought what they said was the truth as I know it – the truth about the country, the truth about McCain, and the truth about the people they’re running for office.
We’re all feeling a lot better than we did 4 years ago when we old post-60’s guys desperately hoped that somehow the American people would wake up and realize that the Bush-Cheney administration was a nightmare. Actually, we’re feeling pretty f*ing good. Odds we get to skip the depressive episode this time around seem a lot better, too.
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