And like you, I ask which leader is it today that has the vision, the willpower and, yes, the backbone to best protect my family?

The clear answer to that question has placed me in this hall with you tonight. For my family is more important than my party.

There is but one man to whom I am willing to entrust their future and that man's name is George Bush.

In the summer of 1940, I was an eight-year-old boy living in a remote little Appalachian valley.

Our country was not yet at war but even we children knew that there were some crazy men across the ocean who would kill us if they could.

President Roosevelt, in his speech that summer, told America"all private plans, all private lives, have been in a sense repealed by an overriding public danger."

I didn't watch the speech, but apparently the crowd went wild.

Thanks to Lew Rockwell for publicizing this.

Update: I've since watched the video online. For the record, there was no applause immediately after the Roosevelt quote. Applause came four lines later, after a reference to Wendell Wilkie, Roosevelt's 1940 Republican opponent:"And he [Wilkie] made it clear that he would rather lose the election than make national security a partisan campaign issue." It's fair to say that Roosevelt's hideous quotation got no enthusiastic response—in fact, no response at all—from the convention throng. (Why didn't they boo?) Video is here.

Senator Kerry has made it clear that he would use military force only if approved by the United Nations.

Kerry would let Paris decide when America needs defending.

I want Bush to decide.

Me, I want Congress to decide--you know, like it says in the Constitution and everything. You'd think a United States senator might appreciate that distinction, but what can you expect from a screeching mediocrity whose previous claim to fame was spending taxpayers' money to distribute a free classical music CD to every new baby born in Georgia? Unprincipled, reflexively hawkish, and dim: Zell's found a home in the modern G.O.P.

Press tycoon Conrad M. Black and other top Hollinger International Inc. officials pocketed more than $400 million in company money over seven years and Black's handpicked board of directors passively approved many of the transactions, a company investigation concluded.

A report by a special board committee singled out director Richard N. Perle, a former Defense Department official, who received $5.4 million in bonuses and compensation. The report said Perle should return the money to the Chicago-based company.

The new report, filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission late Monday, added details of what it called the" corporate kleptocracy" Black and Radler created at Hollinger. It said they treated the company as a"piggybank" and fashion accessory, with Black using the prestige of the newspapers to gain access to the wealthy, powerful and royal.

For example, the report said Black and his wife, Barbara Amiel Black, treated the Hollinger corporate jet as a private shuttle between cities such as Chicago and Toronto and vacation spots. They took frequent trips to Palm Springs and one 33-hour round trip to Bora Bora, which cost the company $530,000, the report said. It also said Black charged the company $90,000 to refurbish a Rolls-Royce, and used $8 million in company money to buy memorabilia of President Franklin D. Roosevelt, about whom Black wrote a book.

I wonder if my friend Jacob Levy, and other Libertarians for Kerry, are beginning to reassess wether Michael Badnarik (despite his wacky qualities) might not be so bad after all.