The Boston Globe's opinion staff takes a collectively-fair-and-balanced look at the Bush campaign:

• Thomas Oliphant: "You can always try putting lipstick on a pig, as President Bush did last night, but the result is rarely helpful, much less transforming."
• Derrick Jackson: "It was only the beginning of his national plea for amnesia."
• Joan Vennochi: "There may be two John Kerrys, as Republicans charge. But there is only one Bush, and he never lets facts get in the way of a good argument."