The Road to Shanghai

We really wanted to hear his acceptance speech at the convention, but we were pretty sure it wouldn't be carried on Chinese television, and we don't get an English-language station in our apartment. However, the hotels here usually carry CNN, which we knew would carry the speech in its entirety. Norty had the bright idea of renting a hotel room for the day of Kerry's speech (it was 10 AM here, of course). So, that's what we did. I thought it was a really fine speech. Not a Bill Clinton style great speech, but very effective. I'll try to refrain from too much political commentary on the weblog, but I have to say it will be so nice to have a president who speaks English as a first language!