There's an interesting interview with John Nichols from The Nation over at DemocracyNOW about what gets said by the speakers at the DNC and why.
You are chosen basically if you answer in the affirmative to one question, which is I will essentially say what the Kerry campaign and DNC want said. And so, many people don't have to be asked, you know. It's just your tenor or your style answers that question. But aside from a handful of folks, Ted Kennedy and a couple of others, Jimmy Carter, who really are essentially free to say what they want, most people who speak are selected with the purpose of delivering some aspect of the Kerry or DNC message. And so you really fit into a slot. And – so that's the basic concept. And amazingly enough, even the upper-level folks, the Kennedys and the Carters, seem to have fit into their slots pretty effectively.
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