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Just guess who Zell was talking about in such glowing terms?

(via Senate.gov, in turn thanks to Atrios):

My job tonight is an easy one: to present to you one of this nation's authentic heroes, one of this party's best-known and greatest leaders – and a good friend.

He was once a lieutenant governor – but he didn't stay in that office 16 years, like someone else I know. It just took two years before the people of Massachusetts moved him into the United States Senate in 1984.

In his 16 years in the Senate, John Kerry has fought against government waste and worked hard to bring some accountability to Washington.

Early in his Senate career in 1986, John signed on to the Gramm-Rudman-Hollings Deficit Reduction Bill, and he fought for balanced budgets before it was considered politically correct for Democrats to do so.

John has worked to strengthen our military, reform public education, boost the economy and protect the environment. Business Week magazine named him one of the top pro-technology legislators and made him a member of its "Digital Dozen."

John was re-elected in 1990 and again in 1996 – when he defeated popular Republican Governor William Weld in the most closely watched Senate race in the country.

John is a graduate of Yale University and was a gunboat officer in the Navy. He received a Silver Star, Bronze Star and three awards of the Purple Heart for combat duty in Vietnam. He later co-founded the Vietnam Veterans of America.

Who could have guessed John Kerry could have morphed into such a fiend since then? The press, amazingly enough, is not being kind either...something about "all those weapons programs Kerry voted agains" also being voted against by people named Rumsfeld, and Cheney, and....oooh, he just challenged Tweety to a duel. I take back at least half the bad things I said about Chris Matthews in the last two weeks.

What's the going rate for silver these days? I think I know somebody who is not sure he got his money's worth for those 30 pieces now in his pocket.

And Cheney didn't pause because of applause lines, he paused and waited until people started applauding. My debate teacher would have rated the performance -5 for content and -10 for delivery.