Rattle wrote:
] On CNN there was some guy yelling about balloons the entire
] time after the Kerry acceptance speech. "Keep coming
] baloons, No confetti yet, Alright go balloons. All baloons.
] Come on guys lets move it, Jesus, we need more balloons. God
] damnit. Go confetti. I want more balloons. What happened to
] all the balloons. What's happening balloons there aren't. What
] the fuck are you guys doing up there? We want more baloons
] coming down, more baloons." It went on for at least a
] good three or four minutes. Unbelievable. Update: It
] was the director of the DNC..

I watched Kerry's speech and the balloon debacle from the CNN monitors at the airport, while I was traveling to Def Con. It had me and some others in the waiting area laughing out loud.

Regarding Kerry's speech, I tried to listen to it with an open mind. He did have a couple good lines, like "The future belongs to freedom, not to fear." However, many of the slams he took at Bush made me uncomfortable, or were just so completely illogical as to sound bizarre. For example, when Kerry was saying that we needed a President who could back up words with action... Huh? Who the hell can possibly claim that Bush is an action-less President? It's his actions that have been causing all the controversy!

Anyway, the balloon stuff at the end was hilarious. It made me wonder if the headlines about Kerry's speech the next day, instead of bannering, "Kerry says the future belongs to freedom" would be "Where are the damn balloons??" Heh.

I also wonder if any of the political cartoonists picked up on it. Especially since one of Kerry's recurring mottos is "Help is on the way", there'd be a great cartoon there with the balloons all stuck in a net, and a handiman coming up with a pair of scissors: "Help is on the way." ;)

CNN: Kerry and the Balloons