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PICK ONE

There is so much to be happy about in last night's convention results. Here is some cherry picking:

"My name is Teresa Heinz Kerry, and by now I hope it will come as no surprise that I have something to say." "My right to speak my mind, to have a voice, to be what some call opinionated, is a right I deeply and profoundly cherish. My only hope is that one day soon, women - who have all earned the right to their opinions - instead of being labeled opinionated, will be called smart and well informed, just like men."

"I'm Howard Dean, and I'm voting for John Kerry.'' "This was never about me. It was about us. It was about giving new life to our party, new energy to our democracy, and providing hope again for the greatest nation on earth.'' "We're not going to be afraid to stand up for what we believe. We're not going to let those who disagree with us shout us down under a banner of false patriotism."

[Barack Obama] "There is not a black America and a white America and Latino America and Asian America; there's the United States of America," "For all the talk of a red and blue America divided by party, Mr. Obama said, "We worship an awesome God in the blue states, and we don't like federal agents poking around in our libraries in the red states. We coach Little League in the blue states and, yes, we've got some gay friends in the red states."

[Ted Kennedy] "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," he added. "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 with John Kerry and John Edwards leading us, we will win them again and make America stronger at home and respected once more in the world."