Power to the Pupil

Yep, it was a big night in Boston. Ted and Howard and Tom and Dick and Janet and Barak and Ron and Theresa and more - all wonderful in their own various ways.

12 year old Kids for Kerry founder Ilana Wexler of Oakland California showed those political stars just why the stars of stage and screen caution against working with kids and dogs, though. They'll steal the show.

Ilana did just that. I don't know how much play she got on the networks (I could slightly make out her voice behind the talking heads on the PBS replay), but for the convention crowd and the C-SPAN audience, at least, she provided a distinctive highlight (and here's another interview some blogger ought to get!).

Ya just gotta love a kid who will give up summer camp to spend every day at Kerry headquarters, and ya got to love her even more when she can confidently deliver lines like this on the convention podium.

"When our vice president had a disagreement with a Democratic senator, he used a really bad word. If I said that word, I would be put in a timeout. I think he should be put in a timeout."

A long time out.

Girls rock!