Text of Remarks by John Kerry at New Northside Baptist Church in St. Louis March 28

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[MJY1288]

"It was just 50 years ago that a little girl called Linda Brown had to walk a mile through a railroad yard everyday just to catch a bus to her segregated elementary school."

This was straight out of the Democrat Playbook.

[shiva]

.....and Vote For Me...Hallelujah

[GreenHornet]

Gee.....how come the libs aren't screaming about "separation of church and state"?

[ErnBatavia]

My brothers and sisters, our present national leadership may be taking us around a corner, but it is a corner that leads to a dead end road paved with broken promises.

Also out of the playbook.....JFK is just going through the motions, it would appear.

[knarf]

"This was straight out of the Democrat Playbook."

I couldn't help but hear Adolph Hitler in this 'speech'.

[K1avg]

"...a tool of the privileged." Yikes! Isn't Kerry actually richer than Bush? I should wish Kerry would stop spouting Democrat rhetoric and instead focus on what needs to get done in this country. Or, on the other hand, I hope he doesn't. If the American people can see through this crap, they'll find Kerry is nothing more than a thin lie, and we won't be bothered with his bumbling inconsistencies again. Keep on talking, Kerry!

[Sacajaweau]

I think there is a rule that you're not suppose to campaign in a church....but then Dems not believe in rules.

[KriegerGeist]

Any Conservative candidate in a Church would have that Church's tax-exempt status pulled in a New York minute.

The ACLU would sue all the way to the Supreme Court that it's un-constitutional and Justices would rule in their favor.

[Dolphy]

It was just 50 years ago that a little girl called Linda Brown had to walk a mile through a railroad yard everyday just to catch a bus to her segregated elementary school.

John Kerry has two views of the world, one was set in cement 50 years ago and the other 30 years ago. It's pretty hard to have a new idea when your only references are decades old.

[kdot]

Why wasn't the congregation insulted by this pandering? Kerry was out of place in more ways than one. You can't defend a person who wont defend himself.

[JoeSixPack1]

New Northside Baptist Church in St. Louis

Obviously they make up new rules as needed.

[Lion in Winter]

"My friends, we are called to restore a government of the people instead of a tool of the privileged".......

Oh, yeah... ketchup boy.... government has been a tool used by priviledged and arrogant wussys like yourself to make tons of money and to find ways to satisfy your evil lust for power over the little people of America.

People living in glass mansions ought not to toss stones, ketchup boy!

[goodnesswins]

"Any Conservative candidate in a Church would have that Church's tax-exempt status pulled in a New York minute."

Well....it certainly would be interesting to have a conservative go to the SAME church the NEXT week, and proselytize.....THAT would be a TEST.

[goodnesswins]

"People living in (SEVERAL) glass mansions ought not to toss stones, ketchup boy!"

[PhiKapMom]

For years the RATs went after J.C. Watts who was a minister before Congressman accusing him of using the pulpit during the election season as a way to get out his campaign message which wasn't true.

How come these churches keep their exemptions when Kerry and the RATs keep going there making speeches?

Talk about a double standard -- Kerry isn't even a minister.

[PhiKapMom]

Don't know much about this except I know the RATs went after J.C. and filed a complaint.

Can we as public citizens file a complaint against Kerry and this Church?

[PJ-Comix]

We see too many people hungry in a country where food is abundantand too many working families living in shelters...

This is a HUGE Pet Peeve with me. Dogmatic politicians pretending that HUNGER is a major problem in this country. You want to know the true nutritional problem afflicting poor people? They eat too much and are too fat. Obesity is a big problem among lower class people because they don't know much about nutrition and eat gobs of sweet and fatty foods. And here comes Demagog Kerry to tell us that STARVATION is a problem. Hey, Kerry! Name ONE starving person in this country. I swear if I ever see Ketchup Boy on the campaign trail I will challenge him to name JUST ONE starving person in the U.S.A..

[Blue Scourge]

Don't turn this into a religious war....If he came to my Baptist Church...or almost ANY Baptist church he would not have been allowed to speak from the pulpit. And would have been lambasted afterwards by many of the congregation and in many cases the Pastor aswell.

This is our time to break down division, not build it up. It's time to reject the politics of falseness and fear calculated to divide black from white, rich from poor, neighborhood from neighborhood, region from region.

That is why you vote Republican.... :)

I know, we all know, why some want to widen those divisions, not heal them. They want us, as a people, pointing fingers at each other so no one shines the light of truth on their own failed ways.

Yup, you can locate them at www.democraticunderground.com or just go to your local democratic representitive or senator.

[PJ-Comix]

It was just 50 years ago that a little girl called Linda Brown had to walk a mile through a railroad yard everyday just to catch a bus to her segregated elementary school.

And EVERY segregationist politician back then was DEMOCRAT. Not ONE segrationist politician of that era was a Republican. Something else to ask Ketchup Boy about on the campaign trail---Name JUST ONE segregationist Republican politician from back then.