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Tuesday night at the Democratic National Convention featured Teresa Heinz Kerry and Barack Obama. It’s easy to see why people think that Obama stole the show<\/a>. I thought he was very impressive as well. But for me, the pound-for-pound champion of the night was Ilana Wexler.<\/p>\n Ilana Wexler is a twelve-year-old political activist, and creator of the Kids for Kerry<\/a> website. Here is the Mercury News’ account of her performance Tuesday night<\/a>:<\/p>\n With her high-pitched delivery and breathy enthusiasm, the seventh-grader from Oakland, Calif., wowed the crowd Tuesday night.<\/p>\n And when she chided Cheney for using a four-word expletive in an exchange with Democratic Sen. Patrick Leahy, she brought delegates roaring to their feet.<\/p>\n “When our vice president had a disagreement with a Democratic senator, he used a really bad word,” Ilana said. “If I said that word, I would be put in a timeout. I think he should be put in a timeout.”<\/p>\n […]<\/p>\n Ilana’s star power has already been tapped by David Letterman, who will feature an interview with her Wednesday on his show. Jay Leno has called, too.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Posted by PWalker Tuesday night at the Democratic National Convention featured Teresa Heinz Kerry and Barack Obama. It’s easy to see why people think that Obama stole the show. I thought he was very impressive as well. But for me, the pound-for-pound champion of the night was Ilana Wexler. Ilana Wexler is a twelve-year-old political […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2211","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2211","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2211"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2211\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}