Wasn't Edwards's closing statement brilliant?

[athena]

Thank you. Thank you, Gwen. Thank you, Mr. Vice President, for being here.

You know, when I was young and growing up, I remember coming down the steps into the kitchen early in the morning. And I would see the glow of the television. And I'd see my father sitting at a table. He wasn't paying bills and he wasn't doing paperwork from work. What he was doing was learning math on television. Now, he didn't have a college education. But he was doing what he could do to get a better job in the mill where he worked. I was proud of him. And still proud of him.

And I was also hopeful because I knew that I lived in a country where I could get a college education. Heres the truth. I have grown up in the bright light of America. But that light is flickering today. Now, I know that the vice president and the president dont see it. But you do. You see it when your incomes are going down and the cost of everything college tuition, health care is going through the roof. You see it when you sit at your table each night and theres an empty chair because a loved one is serving in Iraq or Afghanistan. What theyre going to give you is four more years of the same.

John Kerry and I believe that we can do better. We believe in a strong middle class in this country. Thats why we have a plan to create jobs, getting rid of tax cuts for companies outsourcing your jobs, give tax cuts to companies thatll keep jobs here in America. Its why we have a health care plan. Its why we have a plan to keep you safe and to fix fix this mess in Iraq.

The truth is that every four years you get to decide. You have the ability to decide where America is going to go.

John Kerry and I are asking you to give us the power to fight for you, to fight to keep that that dream in America that I saw as a young man, alive for every parent sitting at that kitchen table.

This was the best little speech I've ever heard. I loved how he went back to the kitchen table at the end. Cheney's statement was miserable next to this.

Sorry if this has already been discussed.

[irancontra]

1. yes it was

brilliant. Sitting side-by-side Cheney looked like he ate kids.

[tmooses]

2. It was very good

-From the heart, direct, concise and sums up the difference between Bush and Kerry. I do wish he would have brought up that ebay remark Cheney made a few weeks ago, though.

[tigereye]

3. Cheney and Bush's inability to admit that there are any

problems ( economy, foreign policy, Iraq, Iran, etc.) is very damaging. I can't believe that they cannot see this.

[Jawja]

4. Cheney's statement

was terror, death, fear, yada yada yada.

:scared:

[bigtree]

5. the vice president and the president dont see it.

But you do.

[Lautremont]

6. It was maybe a little corny, I thought,

but I'm just not used to that sort of politicking because it doesn't play particularly well up here in Canada. Nevertheless, it was sincerely delivered and probably very effective.

[Carolinian]

8. Honey, in the south we call it "straight talking" not politicking. It was

sincere - not just in the deliverance. He was speaking from his heart directly to the kind of people he grew up with - ME! Why does one have to walk and talk like a northerner to be credible? I'm tired of the southern corn pone insults.

[Lautremont]

9. I certainly don't question his credibility

and believe me, I don't think the South has a lock on corn pone.

[hippiegranny]

7. I listened to both closings, then I turned to my honey

and I said, "wow what a difference between help is on the way, cause we've got a plan, and excuses, lies and terror, fear and terror!" She noticed it too, I just said it first.