President Clinton's words on Kerry and Edwards from March Unity dinner

[JI7]

the part on kerry is long since kerry was the presumed nominee and there was no vp then. but clinton also mentioned the other primary candidates. and the part where he talked about Edwards is posted below the few parts on kerry. i noticed that while he complimented all the candidates, when he complimented Edwards it also said that is what PEOPLE want. and i think it's a short and simple way of saying why Kerry also ended up picking him.

Clinton on Kerry :


<Now, here's what I know about John Kerry. In the Vietnam era which marked us all, most young men, including the President, the Vice President, and me, most of us should've gone to Vietnam and didn't go.

And John Kerry said, send me.

Then when it was all over and it was time to heal up and normalize relations with Vietnam, if would could get an accounting, a full accounting of all of our POWs and MIAs and we needed somebody who's been there to stand up and take a leadership role, John Kerry said, send me.

And when almost nobody in the Congress was really interested in all of these poor children that were living in horribly violent neighborhoods when I became President, because after all they weren't organized, they didn't have a PAC that didn't give any money, they didn't vote, their parents didn't vote, there was hardly anybody that really cared about what these kids were going through. The person in the Senate who talked to me all the time about it was John Kerry.

When he looked into the eyes of those poor kids growing up on mean street, he said, send me.

When we needed to have an America that was united across racial and gender and sexual orientation and immigrant and non-immigrant lines, and the new Republican majority was trying to cut us up nine ways from Sunday, John Kerry said send me.>



Clinton on Edwards :


<And I thank John Edwards for proving once more that people want hope over fear, they'd rather be lifted up than torn town, and it's a good thing if you can talk an owl out of a tree. Thank you John Edwards for what you have done in this campaign.>


http://www.democrats.org/news/200403290002.html

[patricia92243]

1. Talk an owl out of a tree- that's cute and funny.I love Cclinton and am...

glad he likes our new VP.

[Sinistrous]

2. That speech of Clinton's was one of the damn best pieces of oratory

I ever heard. Goosebumps and tears -- both at the same time.

[NewYorkerfromMass]

3. Because Kerry knows all about service and sacrifice

personally.

[filterfish]

4. great speech

thanks for the link and the excerpts

[katieforeman]

5. One of Clinton's most powerful speeches ever.

You could tell it was from the heart the way he delivered it.