John Kerry: We will give America back its truth

[T_i_B]

Kerry's speech after winning New Hampshire.

http://argument.independent.co.uk/podium/story.jsp?story=485965

I make you this pledge tonight: I have spent my whole life fighting against powerful interests - and I've only just begun to fight. I have a message for the influence peddlers, for the polluters, the health maintenance organisations, the drug companies, big oil and all the special interests who now call the White House home: We're coming. You're going. And don't let the door hit you on the way out.

This victory also belongs in a special way to the veterans who marched with us and lifted us up from the lowest points to where we stand tonight. In the hardest moments of the past month, I depended on the same band of brothers I depended on more than 30 years ago. We're a little older, a little grayer, but we still know how to fight for our country.

Stand with us - and we will give America the security of energy independence, because our sons and daughters should never have to fight and die for Mideast oil. Stand with us - and we will give America back its truth as a country where freedom rings, a country of equal rights and civil liberties where the Attorney General is no longer named John Ashcroft.

[oasis]

1. That was a rallying cry.The Kerry juggernaut will be unstoppable.

All the way to the White House.

[sventvkg]

2. LOLOLOLOLOLOLOL...get ready for 4 more Bush years...

[T_i_B]

3. OK then

Pray do tell what is in that speech that is going to put off voters?

[IndianaGreen]

4. "What is truth?" Pontius Pilate

I make you this pledge tonight: I have spent my whole life fighting against powerful interests - and I've only just begun to fight.

"What is truth?"

Pontius Pilate
(John 18:38)

[ProfessorPlum]

5. He has to really decide where he stands on this war.

"because our sons and daughters should never have to fight and die for Mideast oil"

One of the reasons Kerry is way down on my list of candidates. *Bush didn't "do it the right way", but isn't it dandy we got Saddam?

[polpilot]

11. Hooray!! The DLC has their pro-war establishment candidate!! Kerry

has decided where he is on the war. He's stands with Bush and will get Jim Baker involved when he's president. Talk about an agent of change!

Go to the DLC site and see Kerry's latest 'thoughts'.

Dean '04...The Decent Party (Dean's defacto third party)

[molly]

6. GREAT Speech !!!

"I make you this pledge tonight: I have spent my whole life fighting against powerful interests - and I've only just begun to fight."

So true!!!

[dusty64]

7. It is true.

Hopefully he is going to begin to fight cause I've been waiting a loooooong time for some opposition and haven't seen any yet.

[molly]

8. Where have you been?

[IndianaGreen]

9. Where was Kerry when the war began?

That's some fighter we got there, he was as AWOL as Bush!

[CWebster]

13. And now he is calling for Tenant's resignation to pass the buck

Sleazy.

[Cheswick2.0]

10. OMG this is too much

"Stand with us - and we will give America the security of energy independence, because our sons and daughters should never have to fight and die for Mideast oil."

Anyone else see the utter orwellian aspect of this man?

[JVS]

18. You mean the whole, I'm the join me to fix problems I helped make thing?

yeah, I see it :puke:

[CWebster]

12. gag

If Kerry gets annointed it will be buffoon vs babboon.

Some choice. Dems will vote responding to media blitzes portraying the candidates of hope as "unelectible" in favor of the status quo, or fear of Bush(ABB). Take our country back from what? Kerry is an untalented politician who will garner only begrudging support vs a multi-million dollar campaign waged against him. The dirty tricks he pulled on Dean will be amateurish by comparison. If he loses, there can always be Hilliary in '08. Should he win, he will end up setting the party back for years to come by just sheer politics as usual without the added benefit of a charismatic and charming politician.

[T_i_B]

14. Kick for the Kerry supporters

...or lack of in the case of this thread. :eyes:

:kick:

[D G]

17. Well, I'll check in

Kerry isn't the only candidate I support, and this is a typical politician-type speech. But unlike some folks, I don't consider electing a politician president an unforgivable sin ;)

[Larkspur]

15. Kerry should hire Dean has his speech writer

because he co-opted Dean's language.

[isbister]

23. If he did hire Dean

then all of Kerry's speeches would be full of misleading statements. No thanks.

[NV1962]

16. Who is Kerry to speak of "truth"?

He and Lieberman are such perfect examples of the professional Washington politician who ended up actually believing in his own electability... And this professional politician speaks as curator of "the truth"? Haha!

Here's a clue: CRE-DI-BI-LI-TY.

A wooden board has more of that and conviction power, too, vis-à-vis Bush. Surprising perhaps, but you really can't beat an established and entrenched power junkie with another.

I'll write Bob Graham in first before considering support for Kerry.

[dolstein]

19. Will that be the 6 oz serving, or will Kerry supersize it?

War on terror. Give America back its truth.

Pardon my French, but who the hell writes this crap?

[T_i_B]

22. Will your candidate do any of the things...

...that Kerry promises in his speech Dolstein?

[bigtree]

20. Solid words

Solid record of service to the country.

Solid man.

[in_cog_ni_to]

21. I've only just begun to fight

Riiiiight, Johnny. The time to fight was before you voted for the IWR and the Patriot Act. What a typical political speech. Hahahaha! I like this part.....Stand with us - and we will give America the security of energy independence, because our sons and daughters should never have to fight and die for Mideast oil. Stand with us - and we will give America back its truth as a country where freedom rings, a country of equal rights and civil liberties where the Attorney General is no longer named John Ashcroft.

NOW he's worried about civil liberties? Give me a break. Our sons and daughters should never have to die for mideast oil????? *cough*cough*cough*cough*cough*cough*cough* YOU SENT THEM THERE JOHNNY! That is one of the funniest speeches I've read in a long time.