Posted on 08/28/2008 6:21:13 AM PDT by Jabrown
Mr. Chairman, Mr. Vice President to be, this convention, my fellow citizens of this great nation:
With a deep awareness of the responsibility conferred by your trust, I accept your nomination for the presidency of the United States. I do so with deep gratitude, and I think also I might interject on behalf of all of us, our thanks to Detroit and the people of Michigan and to this city for the warm hospitality they have shown. And I thank you for your wholehearted response to my recommendation in regard to George Bush as a candidate for vice president.
I am very proud of our party tonight. This convention has shown to all America a party united, with positive programs for solving the nation's problems; a party ready ...
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Not to nitpick but the pic was from 1984.
Thank you for this post.
I remember watching a beautiful speech on TV that he gave at the RNC in New Orleans in 1988. I was in tears throughout the whole thing.
Can't wait to compare and contrast this speech with whatever drivel spills out of the Messiah's mouth tonight...
“The American people, the most generous on earth, who created the highest standard of living, are not going to accept the notion that we can only make a better world for others by moving backwards ourselves. Those who believe we can have no business leading the nation.”
Amen! If you can’t see the vision, get the hell out of the way and let a grownup take the stick.
Colonel, USAFR
“The American people, the most generous on earth, who created the highest standard of living, are not going to accept the notion that we can only make a better world for others by moving backwards ourselves. Those who believe we can have no business leading the nation.”
Profound — and so appropriate decades later.
Bump!
When you read Reagain, and having lived those dreadful Carter years of inflation, unemployment, humiliation and malaise...it becomes clear that although policies are important, it is American Exceptionalism and American Leadership that we need.
...now back to your regularly scheduled programming of dependence on government and multicultural Balkanization.
I just watched it on YouTube last week. Very powerful.
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