Here's what will happen. After/despite all the loud whining among the media whores that the Democratic convention isn't newsworthy, and that nothing happens, and that it's all boring and packaged, Kerry/Edwards will get a huge boost in the polls.
Then once the Republican convention rolls around, the media storyline will be that it's the most important Republican convention in years, that the future of the party is on the line, and the big question is, what will Bush/Cheney do to wrest back the lead, and oh how fucking exciting it all is!
Goddam whores. The lazy media are pissed off that rather than rely on 30-second bytes of the candidates, they have to deal with longer speeches and talk about policy that might actually require some work. So instead, they revert to pap such as "With john edwards so positive, who will lead the attack on Bush/Cheney?" (thanks to Peter Jennings for that lazy piece of analysis). The point is that they have ideas, and it's their ideas, not distortions of the others' record, or phony charges of flip-flopping, that will win the election for John Kerry and John Edwards, you fuckwit.

That being said, I'm going to now watch Snoop, Warren G, and Nate Dogg's supergroup 213 on Letterman.