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1988 Flashback: Kerry calls Reagan Presidency "Moral Darkness" in convention speech
The Boston Globe Archives | July 21, 1988 | Walter V. Robinson

Posted on 06/10/2004 9:00:03 PM PDT by nwrep

ATLANTA -- Michael Stanley Dukakis, a self-described "very, very long- shot" candidate just 16 months ago, last night became the Democratic nominee for president and his party's best hope to win the White House since 1976.

Earlier, Sen. John F. Kerry took to the convention hall podium, telling the delegates that the "moral darkness" of President Reagan's presidency will soon end.

"A Republican president once reminded us, 'There is absolutely nothing to be said for a government of powerful men with the ideals of pawnbrokers,' " Kerry said.

"That president's name was Theodore Roosevelt. And today Theodore Roosevelt would be ashamed to be a Republican."

Said Kerry: "It is time we once again had a government of laws and not of lawbreakers."


TOPICS: Announcements; Front Page News; Politics/Elections; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: kerry; kerrywho; ronaldreagan
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1 posted on 06/10/2004 9:00:04 PM PDT by nwrep
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And if we had a media with an ounce of honesty, this would be on the front pages this week not hidden in a forgotten archive!


2 posted on 06/10/2004 9:02:44 PM PDT by Revolting cat! ("In the end, nothing explains anything!")
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Earlier, Sen. John F. Kerry took to the convention hall podium, telling the delegates that the "moral darkness" of President Reagan's presidency will soon end.

And yet he'll stand and grin with the Clintoons.

3 posted on 06/10/2004 9:04:50 PM PDT by martin_fierro
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I wonder if during the Clinton regime Kerry called it a period of moral purity and enlightenment?


4 posted on 06/10/2004 9:05:44 PM PDT by Nateman (Socialism first, cancer second.)
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To: nwrep

Great find...........we need to catalogue this bile, for posterity to show the stark contrast between what most of us remember Ronald Reagan as (a kind and decent man) and the putrid crud these dimwits have projectile vomited at the unsuspecting public, for so long!!

We need to show that history, once again, has proven him and his effin' party associates, WRONG!!!


5 posted on 06/10/2004 9:06:11 PM PDT by soozla (BUSH/CHENEY '04)
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Mike Dukakis? Uh, that'd be 1988, friend, but the meaning of Kerry's words are the same regardless.

John F'n...what a POS.

6 posted on 06/10/2004 9:11:06 PM PDT by LincolnLover (LSU: 2003 National Football Champions, GEAUXING FOR TWO in 2004!)
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To: Revolting cat!
"And if we had a media with an ounce of honesty, this would be on the front pages this week not hidden in a forgotten archive!"

But instead, the Boston Globe would rather print porno and report that it is pictures of our troops raping prisoners.
7 posted on 06/10/2004 9:14:49 PM PDT by DocRock
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"Earlier, Sen. John F. Kerry took to the convention hall podium, telling the delegates that the "moral darkness" of President Reagan's presidency will soon end."

Um, this is on tape somewhere. Has to be. Let's poke around on the web and maybe this thing will turn up digitally.

8 posted on 06/10/2004 9:16:01 PM PDT by StAnDeliver
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To: Nateman
I wonder if during the Clinton regime Kerry called it a period of moral purity and enlightenment?

The libs and the networks wonder why people don't trust them anymore, when they supported and revered a degenerate like Billy Blythe Clinton, and treated a wonderful man like Ronald Reagan with nothing but contempt. Moral darkness, indeed.

9 posted on 06/10/2004 9:16:03 PM PDT by MamaLucci (Libs, want answers on 911? Ask Clinton why he met with Monica more than with his CIA director.)
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P. S. Wouldn't this be a 1988 Flashback:? Just ping the Admin Moderator if it needs adjustment...
10 posted on 06/10/2004 9:19:14 PM PDT by StAnDeliver
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To: Revolting cat!

Isn't it amazing, that with a public record stretching three decades, the press has reported almost nothing about John Kerry's history?

Why the lack of curiosity, I wonder?


11 posted on 06/10/2004 9:21:45 PM PDT by thoughtomator (Yitgadal v'yitgadash Shmei Raba)
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Isn't it amazing, that with a public record stretching three decades, the press has reported almost nothing about John Kerry's history?

Don't worry, I will be reporting it here.

12 posted on 06/10/2004 9:23:24 PM PDT by nwrep
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"That president's name was Theodore Roosevelt. And today Theodore Roosevelt would be ashamed to be a Republican."

It's always amusing when somebody tries to speak for another person, especially when that other person is dead. Frankly, I find it impossible to imagine that outdoorsman and "Rough Rider" Teddy Roosevelt would ever take John Kerry's position on abortion, feminism and homosexual pervert's "rights"; let alone gun control, pacifism and a free ride for illegal aliens. Were "Teddy" Roosevelt alive today he's be labeled a 'radical right-wing conservative' by Kerry and his liberal ilk.

13 posted on 06/10/2004 9:41:39 PM PDT by TheCrusader ("the frenzy of the Mohammedans has devastated the churches of God" Pope Urban II)
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"It is time we once again had a government of laws and not of lawbreakers."

I'm confused....is he talking about Reagan or the Clintons? Oh, that's right, the Clintons and their lies about files, BJs, property, and a host of other things had not yet appeared on the public scene. I guess when I hear someone talking about the presidency and lies in the same sentence, Slick Willy just instantly comes to mind.


14 posted on 06/10/2004 9:42:38 PM PDT by Casloy
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Now this can't be true, Kerry just went to California to spit on, oops, pray over on his casket.

Kerry and his idiot fellow travelers think we can't remember what asses they've been for the last 25 to 50 years. Screw em, one and all.


15 posted on 06/10/2004 10:13:01 PM PDT by DoughtyOne
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Email the quote from this article to everybody in the media you have an email address for. Lets get this one into the media while they are still covering Reagan.


16 posted on 06/10/2004 11:46:25 PM PDT by bpjam (I don't know what a neo-con is and neither does anybody else.)
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bump.


17 posted on 06/11/2004 12:24:35 AM PDT by ambrose (President Bush on Reagan: "His Work is Done and Now a Shining City Awaits Him")
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BUMP!!!


18 posted on 06/11/2004 6:45:48 AM PDT by jmstein7 (Real Men Don't Need Chunks of Government Metal on Their Chests to be Heroes)
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Kerry=Moral Darkness placemarker.


19 posted on 06/11/2004 9:39:37 AM PDT by headsonpikes (Spirit of '76 bttt!)
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I love when Democrats put words into the mouths of dead Republicans...


20 posted on 06/11/2004 11:29:19 AM PDT by ICX (Freedom of speech isn't working out so well for liberals now that someone else has the mic. - AC)
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