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Kennedy Passes The Torch To Kerry (Worldwide Hurl ALERT!!!)(all speeches covered)
CBS MarketWatch.com ^ | 7/27/04 | William L. Watts & Corbett B. Daly

Posted on 07/27/2004 8:05:02 PM PDT by SierraWasp

Kennedy offers blessing to Kerry

Howard Dean tells delegates never to be ashamed of party

By William L. Watts & Corbett B. Daly Last Update: 10:45 PM ET July 27, 2004

BOSTON (CBS.MW) -- Ted Kennedy, whose brother John F. Kennedy captivated the nation more than four decades ago, offered his blessing Tuesday night to another JFK from Massachusetts who hopes to get to the White House.

John Kerry "is a war hero who understands that America's strength comes from many sources -- especially the power of our ideas. He knows that a true leader inspires hope and vanquishes fear," Kennedy said in a prime-time speech on the second day of the four-day Democratic National Convention in Boston.

The senior senator from Massachusetts primarily responsible for bringing the convention to Kerry's home state painted the junior senator from Massachusetts as an inspirational leader who would bring a divided nation together.

"In these challenging times for our country, in these fateful times for the world, America needs a genuine uniter -- not a divider who only claims to be a uniter," Kennedy said, referring to President Bush's campaign pledge four years ago.

In a scathing attack on Bush, Kennedy compared the current president to "some monarch named George who inherited the crown."

"For centuries, kings ruled by what they claimed was divine right. They could not be questioned. They could not be challenged. The people's fate was not their own," Kennedy said, calling on Americans to exercise their right to vote Bush out of office.

Kennedy invoked the ideals of the nation's founding fathers, telling delegates that a Kerry presidency would restore "freedom and equality and opportunity and fairness and common decency for all."

"The goals of the American people are every bit as high as they were more than 200 years ago. If America is failing to reach them today, it's not because our ideals need replacing, it's because our president needs replacing," Kennedy said.

Despite the Kerry campaign's call for speakers at the convention to praise their candidate without attacking Bush, Kennedy offered another of his many fiery attacks on the Bush administration.

"If dedication to the common good were hardwired into human nature, we would never have needed a revolution. If each of us cared about the public interest, we wouldn't have the excesses of Enron. We wouldn't have the abuses of Halliburton. And Vice President Cheney would be retired to an undisclosed location," Kennedy said.

And Kerry's one-time rival, former Vermont Governor Howard Dean, passed along his one-time campaign slogan to the Kerry camp.

"Tonight, we're all here to represent the Democratic wing of the Democratic party," Dean said, adding that Democrats should take pride in their party membership.

"Never again will we be ashamed to call ourselves Democrats. Never. Never. Never. We're not just going to change presidents, we're going to change this country and we're going to reclaim the American dream," said Dean, who changed the presidential campaign by tapping into an anger in the Democratic base about policies of the White House and offering sharp criticisms of Bush about the war in Iraq.

The second day of speeches -- the only one of four nights not to receive any live coverage from broadcast television networks -- was filled with speakers who sought to introduce Kerry to the nation.

Barack Obama, who is running for the Senate from Illinois and is a rising star in the party, also invoked the nation's early history and said the election is about "the audacity of hope."

"In the end, that's what this election is about. Do we participate in a politics of cynicism or a politics of hope? John Kerry calls on us to hope. John Edwards calls on us to hope," Obama said.

"I'm not talking about blind optimism here -- the almost willful ignorance that thinks unemployment will go away if we just don't talk about it, or the health care crisis will solve itself if we just ignore it. No, I'm talking about something more substantial. It's the hope of slaves sitting around a fire singing freedom songs; the hope of immigrants setting out for distant shores; the hope of a young naval lieutenant bravely patrolling the Mekong Delta; the hope of a mill worker's son who dares to defy the odds; the hope of a skinny kid with a funny name who believes that America has a place for him, too," said Obama, the son of black Kenyan and a white Kansan.

Kerry's wife, Teresa Heinz Kerry, took her own shot at Bush as she called Kerry "a fighter" who "will not fear disagreement or dissent."

"He earned his (war) medals the old-fashioned way, by putting his life on the line for his country," Heinz Kerry said, "no one will defend this nation more vigorously than he will-and he will always be first in the line of fire."

"In America, the true patriots are those who dare speak truth to power," she said, according to prepared remarks.


TOPICS: Extended News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: damnlies; demlies; dncconvention; filth; gag; garbage; kerry; lies; puke; puss; vomit
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Kennedy calling up the founding fathers is pure unadulterated BLASTPHEMY!!!
1 posted on 07/27/2004 8:05:04 PM PDT by SierraWasp
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To: SierraWasp
John Kerry "is a war hero who understands that America's strength comes from many sources -- especially the power of our ideas.

He's got a point there. Kerry thought he was wounded and got a medal for it....three times.

Release the records, Johnny, prove you're not a liar.

2 posted on 07/27/2004 8:09:40 PM PDT by tbpiper (Michael Moore…..the Erich von Däniken of political documentary)
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To: SierraWasp

 
 
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3 posted on 07/27/2004 8:14:26 PM PDT by counterpunch (The CouNTeRPuNcH Collection - www.counterpunch.us)
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To: SierraWasp
Couldn't you just pray for five feet of snow and the roof caves-in tomorrow night when that place is packed? After all, it's not like any of 'em would be missed.
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4 posted on 07/27/2004 8:18:49 PM PDT by solitas (I just want to hear three words from kerry: "Oh, my heart!")
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To: SierraWasp

"Just tell that committee about thousands of atrocities and we'll make sure you get places, Johnny boy."

"Uh, ok."

5 posted on 07/27/2004 8:26:50 PM PDT by Bonaparte
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To: SierraWasp

Kennedy doesn't have a tourch to pass to anyone.


6 posted on 07/27/2004 8:27:14 PM PDT by gilliam
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To: gilliam; Grampa Dave; Liz; BOBTHENAILER; Southack
Oh... You just don't understand... He's passing the torch with the eternal flame from the tomb of his assassinated brother's tomb. If his F'n brother were alive today he would probably repudiate both Kerry and his own abominable brother Teddy!!!

I was certainly no fan of Jack Kennedy, but at least he was no Commonist/Socialist!!! He cut taxes like Ronauldus Magnus and Dubya and America took off like a shot heard round the world!!!

I just wish Eisenhour had done it and Nixon really dropped the ball by not promising to out-do JFK at tax reduction. History would have been quite different!!!

7 posted on 07/27/2004 8:40:08 PM PDT by SierraWasp (LEGALIZE TRADITIONAL AMERICAN FREEDOM!!! Oh! And legalize liberty, too! While you're at it!!!)
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To: SierraWasp

Re: "Kennedy Passes The Torch To Kerry..."

Wonder what would have happened if this had happened in Ted's days of wine & rose... ???

Guess we'll just have to settle for John eFing's pants to be on fire from his lies.


8 posted on 07/27/2004 8:41:08 PM PDT by sonofatpatcher2 (Love & a .45-- What more could you want, campers? };^)
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To: SierraWasp

If JFK were alive today, he would kick the whole bunch out of the hall! Starting with Moore.


9 posted on 07/27/2004 8:42:47 PM PDT by gilliam
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To: gilliam

True!!!


10 posted on 07/27/2004 8:43:47 PM PDT by SierraWasp (LEGALIZE TRADITIONAL AMERICAN FREEDOM!!! Oh! And legalize liberty, too! While you're at it!!!)
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To: gilliam

I think teddy-boy's torch went out in the water of Chappaquiddic.


11 posted on 07/27/2004 8:44:56 PM PDT by bannie (Liberal Media: The Most Dangerous Enemies to America and Freedom)
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To: bannie

water beats fire


12 posted on 07/27/2004 8:45:39 PM PDT by bannie (Liberal Media: The Most Dangerous Enemies to America and Freedom)
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To: SierraWasp
Of course he passed the torch to Kerry. His own genetically poisoned clan has all either killed themselves through arrogance or made themselves unelectable.

SO9

13 posted on 07/27/2004 8:50:48 PM PDT by Servant of the 9 (Screwing the Inscrutable or is it Scruting the Inscrewable?)
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Kennedy Passes The Torch To Kerry

Kerry had better hope that the old sot doesn't belch, while holding that torch.

14 posted on 07/27/2004 9:03:01 PM PDT by Paul Atreides
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To: SierraWasp

was he passing a torch or was it a flask?..


15 posted on 07/27/2004 9:16:03 PM PDT by arly
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To: SierraWasp

I wonder if any of the interns are getting a ride home tonight with Ted in his Buick..?


16 posted on 07/27/2004 9:17:37 PM PDT by arly
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To: SierraWasp

(Per assignment from Rush)

17 posted on 07/27/2004 9:25:32 PM PDT by ru4liberty (I don't know what tomorrow holds, but I know Who holds tomorrow. May His Name ever be praised!)
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To: ru4liberty

LMAO! That turned out great!


18 posted on 07/28/2004 12:10:02 AM PDT by BigSkyFreeper (While Bush plays "rope a dope", Kerry/Edwards play "grope a dope".)
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To: SierraWasp

19 posted on 07/28/2004 12:26:39 AM PDT by Al Simmons (GWB: Keeping the USA #1 in her Third Century!!!)
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To: Al Simmons; Grampa Dave; Dog Gone
Oh BOY!!! PERFECT!!!

Hey Grampa Dave... Here ya go!!!

Hey Dog Gone... Take this ta work with ya!!!

20 posted on 07/28/2004 7:35:59 AM PDT by SierraWasp (LEGALIZE TRADITIONAL AMERICAN FREEDOM!!! Oh! And legalize liberty, too! While you're at it!!!)
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