Neil Boortz is at the Democratic National Convention:

Had a Boston taxi driver yesterday from Iraq. He's going back home to visit his parents in a few weeks. He was none-too-pleased with the Democrats. He believes that Democrats hate his country and want Saddam to be back in power. He was adamant that things are much better in Iraq than the media is saying ... and he's at a loss as to why all of these media types won't tell the truth.

What could drive a man to the conclusion that Democrats hate his country? It may have something to do with the fact that Senator Edward Kennedy, the man who walked onstage tonight talking about the "New Hope" offered by John Kerry and the Democratic Party, derided the motivation to free the taxi driver's people as having been "cooked up in Texas."

As for the left's revulsion to Iraq's liberation: What is your international community worth if freeing 25 million members from the clutches of a tyrant is "unnecessary"?

DISGUSTING: Kennedy says "Today, we say the only thing we have to fear is four more years of George Bush." So now the words of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, that [stayed with and] gave Americans the courage to defeat fascism and Nazism against all odds, is used against an American president who liberated 50 million people in three years? If the Democratic Party wanted their convention to be memorable, they've succeeded: it will be known as the event when they chose to divorce themselves from all reality, all taste, all principle. Seeking to intimidate Americans with whom they disagree, the Democratic Party has sealed its political and social fate to irrelevance.

THE POLITICS OF INCOHERENT HATE: Hugh Hewitt has more.