The Dream HAS died…. Ted Kennedy was incoherent tonight and one more weak voice off message in the attempt to sell the “strong” Kerry ticket.

Kennedy was stumbling over words, saying some words three times before he got it right. His voice was cracking. At one point instead of saying “they fired the shot heard round the world” I think he said “they fired the SHIRT round the world”!!

I think Ted may have been firing up some shots before he gave this speech. He said he had no ill will towards his opponents and invited them to a tea party and pointed out it was right down the road…I think it sounded like he had already been at a party down the road and they weren’t serving tea. The speech itself wasn’t good even if he could read it without stumbling over the words. Apparently Bob Shrum was otherwise occupied, but it doesn’t seem like Teddy even got the B Team to work on this one.

On a proud mother note: Before his speech Wolf Blitzer and others were talking about how Chappaquiddick lost Kennedy his shot at the White House. My son asked, “Didn’t Chappaquiddick lose a woman her life?”