"Madam Chairwoman, The Cynical Blogger from the Great State of Nicotine Addiction and Cancerous Lung Cells Casts His Vote for...

Now it is our turn to take up the cause. Our struggle is not with some monarch named George who inherited the crown--although it often seems that way. Our struggle is with the politics of fear and favoritism in our own time, in our own country.

Our struggle, like so many others before, is with those who put their own narrow interest ahead of the public interest. We hear echoes of past battles in the quiet whisper of the sweetheart deal, in the hushed promise of a better break for the better connected. We hear them in the cries of the false patriots who bully dissenters into silence and submission. These are familiar fights. We've fought and won them before, and...we will win them again....

--Ted Kennedy at last night's DNC

A decent wit, a progressive background, and a record and history of public service and public works in the people's interest: There but for a drinking problem and a shoddy bridge rail go the president of these United States.