I really like the tone of those comments - that echo the first 2004 speech I heard that really really made me excited about a President Kerry. (His speech that spoke of how you could deal with climate change, stimulate the economy, improve the quality of air and water, improve health AND improve national security by not depending on the unstable miiddle east.
The sad thing is that speech, which I think was part of many of his speeches, was on CSPAN. I never saw it on the cable news - where you usually heard the cable person say what Kerry spoke of -- usually focusing on only whatever he said about Bush. It still makes me angry - because this type of intelligent optimism could have inspired the US to do the right things using technology and science to make things better.
I hope that the conference has succeeded in getting people, with the knowledge and/or interest, more excited about what could be done - and that at least some previously unlikely connections were made. I wonder if Teresa's annual conferences on woman's health and other issues had any influence on the Secretary in being the catalyst for this happening.
At any rate, the interesting unusual high level Senator, very capable in writing legislation, who never forgot his own activist grassroots history is now every bit as intriguing as Secretary of State. I am impressed that in both this conference and the London conference that Hague called, he was determined that real action come out of the effort. In addition, the coordination of Kerry and Obama on Obama's announcement was very nicely done. Obama's announcement was - and had to be - the highlight of the conference, but it also was obviously done to draw attention to the conference and - in case the media wanted to doubt it - showed that Kerry and Obama are on the same page on this.
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