The Red Star waxes feverish:
For an hour Thursday night, Sen. John Kerry got to speak directly to the American people, unfiltered by the carping punditocracy, the Republican smear machine and Fox News. From this perspective, what the American people saw was a smart, serious and compassionate man. Kerry came across as a real human being — a man of integrity who believes deeply in the promise of America and seeks to steer the nation to a more secure, more prosperous future.But the American people saw something else as well Thursday evening: This is not just about John Kerry; this is about an entire Democratic Party that refuses to be marginalized, refuses to cede the American flag, religious faith and the badge of patriotism to Republicans. They made it clear: They care about this nation, and they intend that their voices be heard and heeded in setting a new American course.
I have the impression that the Star and Sickle’s editorial board watched the Democratic Convention with their collective pants down around their ankles. The very idea that the “real human being” is going to be exposed in the fraudulent charade of spin and image-construction that is a political convention is nonsensical; it’s utterly absurd.
The only religions that Democrats respect are secular humanism and Islam, they’d rather burn the flag than salute it, and they’re far more patriotic about the United Nations than they are about the United States. That new American course they want to set? The nation as a subordinate member state in a sovereign global government.
The bigger problem, of course, is that the Republican leadership has signed onto the same program.