As if we don't have enough problems. The source for the following excerpts is at the bottom of my post. See if you can guess where this speech came from before looking at the source.
"I would like to join in welcoming everyone this morning. What a beautiful turnout from all corners of our country. The overwhelming response to this conference reflects a growing determination that it is both necessary and possible to deliver a resounding defeat to the Bush administration on November 2. The hard work of the Political Action Commission and the Organizing Department, under direction of the National Board, has made this day possible."
"This election is an ideological battle for hearts and minds. In the next nine months, the Bush administration will raise and spend a record $300 million to convince working people that their interests are the same as the interests of Wall Street. They will engage in tactics to pit one group against the other as a smokescreen cover up of their own responsibility for insecurity, inequality, pain and suffering."
"Ohio AFL-CIO president William Burga says it plain, that the defeat of George Bush is necessary to stand up to "an increasing selfishness and individualist tendency, increasingly conservative and an over-ripe, nearly rotten, capitalist society and culture."
"A major contribution of our Party, and the goal of this conference, is to raise the ability to forge unity of purpose and action, and in so-doing increase the size of our Party to build a movement strong enough to change the priorities of this country toward "people before profits".
"Our approach to the primaries has been based on building unity by:* keeping the fire on the Bush administration and staying on the issues* not getting boxed into any one primary campaign, while at the same time building support for the most advanced in the field* encouraging the maximum labor representation at the Democratic National Convention no matter which candidate that union has endorsed."
"Join because you are angry at the system, and want to be the most effective fighter to change it."
Author: Joelle Fishman, Chair, Political Action Committee, CPUSA(COMMUNIST PARTY USA)