Nineteen years in the U.S. Senate, and this is the sum of what Sen. John Kerry said about it during his hour-long acceptance speech last night:

When I came to the Senate, I broke with many in my own party to vote for a balanced budget, because I thought it was the right thing to do. I fought to put a100,000 (SIC) cops on the street.

And then I reached across the aisle to work with John McCain, to find the
truth about our POW's and missing in action, and to finally make peace with
Vietnam.

This was undoubtedly Kerry's most important moment in the presidential campaign. Well, until debates one, two and three. (To wit: What do people remember more: Al Gore's acceptance speech, or his sighing during that debate with Bush?)