On the Third Hand…

Can He Float Your Boat?

“I learned a lot about these values on that gunboat patrolling the Mekong Delta with young Americans,” Senator Kerry told the Democratic delegates in his acceptance speech, adding: “We were literally all in the same boat. That is the kind of America I will lead as president - an America where we are all in the same boat.”

Ensign Kerry, Max Cleland exhorted the crowd, is “the next captain of our ship of state.”

Bill Clinton got on board: “Since we’re all in the same boat, we should choose a captain of our ship who is a brave, good man, who knows how to steer a vessel through troubled waters to the calm seas and the clear skies of our more perfect union.”

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Given that the Kerry convention featured a skipper brave and sure, a first mate who makes others comfortable, a millionaire called “Lovey” by her spouse, two pretty young Kerry castaways and a movie star (the ubiquitously annoying Ben Affleck), I suppose we should be grateful that Camp Kerry didn’t introduce the nominee with the “Gilligan’s Island” theme song.

Just sit right back and you’ll hear a tale, a tale of a fateful trip.

Don’t faint or anything, she hasn’t switched sides — she did manage to get in a couple of digs at President Bush, too.

[update] Oh dear, I seem to have inspired a linkable Gilligan’s Island theme. Go check it out. The links are priceless.