rosebud
Posted on 07/29/2004 10:32:33 AM PDT by Howlin
Live Convention Video, 7 - 11 p.m. ET
• Sen. John F. Kerry
• Max Cleland
• Kerry's daughters, Alexandra and Vanessa Kerry
• former Green Beret Jim Rassman
• Madeleine Albright
• Sen. Joe Biden (Del.)
• Wesley Clark
• Rep. James Clyburn (S.C.)
• Sen. Joe Lieberman (Conn.)
• Rep. Ed Markey (Mass.)
• Rep. Juanita Millender-McDonald (Calif.)
• Rep. Eleanor Holmes Norton (D.C.)
• House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (Calif.)
• Rep. Louise Slaughter (N.Y.)
• John Sweeney, President of AFL-CIO
• Gov. Mark Warner (Va.)
You know what? I am sitting here, crying my eyes out. This bastard just shit on every good soldier that ever served this country tonight. His hipocracy is unbelievable. Please God, let the people see through this piece of crap excuse of a man.
LOL It's just looked like(FNC) they're shaking the ballons trying to get them down!!
I do hope the GOP doesn't just stick to country music. Not ALL Republicans are country music lovers. Play classical or patriotic music or something, but not all country music, please.
there's jesse jackson for his photo op...
rosebud
Ugh!
"Exactly. It was so packed full it is hard to fathom. We will give you everything, and you will never die, not with my administration. Oh, and the other guy is a liar who wears his religion on his sleeve, unlike my more nuanced approach. But I call on that other guy to be civil after I just called him a liar, and if he's not, well, see what a bad, divisive guy he is. How transparent is that crap."
BINGO! You've got it. This speech was a bomb in so many ways. You can put a fork in Kerry. He's done.
And besides all that, no one (other than us faithful members of the vast right wing conspiracy) is watching this!
At least it's Sammy, not Diamond Dave. Gary Cherone would have been better. :D
Thanks. I'm still predicting a big bounce (10%+) simply because the sheeple didn't realize he was alive before. It'll be quite the shortlived bounce, though, due to a number of reasons... Bush will be back in the lead at the end of the month.
He sure didn't excite me. Then again, I am turned off by liars. He trashed President Bush for an hour and then told him that HE should not attack. Forget it!
Dan Rather's voice quivering as if close to tears of joy. John Roberts saying it's hard to say how this connected with people.
John Roberts notes the "Help is on the way" but says Kerry is saying that Bush/Cheney might have said it but now it's really on the way. Gee, it seemed to me they just stole it without the reference Roberts points to.
John Roberts said *it was a more negative speech* than they anticipated from Kerry. I have no idea why they wouldn't have anticipated such, but we here at FR did. Glad to see John Roberts at least recognize it for what it was.
I miss the warmth of Mike Dukakis
You and me both, kiddo....take a deep breath and know....
NOW IT'S ALL ABOUT GETTING PRESIDENT BUSH RE-ELECTED! Wear a t-shirt, sport a bumper sticker, volunteer at your local Republican headquarters, send emails or letters to the editor of your local paper....be active and be vocal!
BUSH/CHENEY 2004!!!!!!!!!!!
This was supposed to be a Convention to define Kerry and show America who he really is. To re-introduce him to the masses.
After 4 days, there is still that gap--what has Kerry accomplished in the last 19 years in the Senate?
All we know is that he served in Viet Nam. Ok. That was 35 years ago. What about the last 19 years?
science is so much more important.
funny how he claims edwards and himself as american dream success stories.
they both got rich the old fashioned way...they stole it.
9:00 pm Performance by Carole King
Andre Heinz
Vanessa Kerry
Alexandra Kerry.. she reports the story of his telling her about men who will never feel the sunshine, and whose daughters were never born ... [GAG ME with a spoon.]
John Kerry Biographical Film "A Remarkable Promise" smarmy family history ... mother 50 years a Girl Scout leader ... features his band, the Electras, does NOT mention that his "high school" was a Swiss boarding school, ... the Navy was safe duty in Vietnam ... when he volunteered for the Swift Boat, they were used on the coast, NOT on rivers, ... decoration photo with the Admiral in whites was second award of same medal, to look better ... activist, ending the war ... no mention of calling all soldiers war criminals ... [THIS THING is very slickly done.] ... ducks, of course, the issue of his first divorce ... talks of him working with Senators on both sides of the aisle, and shows a photo with McCain, among others ... [PURPOSE of this is to blunt the truth that he is the MOST liberal Senator today, more than even Kennedy and Clinotn (him)] ... YES that was REALLY SLICK ...
What's with the six dead firefighters? Oh, Kerry came back for the funerals. ... No mention that two homeless people started this fire ... and beat the rap for manslaughter with the help of slick lawyers ... why not mention that? ... because both lawyers and homeless people are critical constiuents for the Democrats ...
John Kerry's Vietnam Swiftboat Crewmates Jim Rassmann of Florence, Oregon will speak a lot of our friends never made it home ... do they realize that the group they are in front of were ones who spit on returning Vietnam veterans? ... I know he (Kerry) will make a great commander in chief ... when your life depends on one man, you can count on John Kerry
The Reverend David Alston, Columbia, South Carolina All the rest of these GENTLEMEN are just window-dressing. Max Cleland has always taken the high road...
Skip Barker, Selma, Alabama Steve Hatch, Niagra Falls, New York Jim McDevitt, Wrenthem, Massachusetts Mike Medeiros, San Leandros, California Pat Runyon, Eaton, Ohio Wade Sanders, San Diego, California Del Sandusky, Dunedin, Florida Fred Short, North Little Rock, Arkansas Gene Thorson, Ames, Iowa Jim Wasser, St. Anne, Illinois Drew Whitlow, Huntsville, Arkansas Bill Zaladonis, Sanford, Florida
[NOTE: Since Kerry is hanging his entire campaign on the hinge of his 4 months in Vietnam, the subject is open to examine that subject brick by brick.
The Honorable Max Cleland Former United States Senator, Georgia April, 1968, being airlifted out of Vietnam, Kerry was being transferred into Vietnam, into the line of fire ... although I had lost a lot, I still had a lot left ... then he heard Kerry speaking on TV about the war ... even before I met Kerry, he was my brother ... he was my friend ... risk his life for his friends. there is no greater act of patriotism than that ... his service to his country did not end in Vietnam, it began there ... runs the mantra from respect by France to cheaper health care ... yet another reference to the Sons of Liberty, and Crispus Attucks (mispronounces the name) ... a man called by destiny ... John Kerry
John Kerry I'm John Kerry, and I'm reporting for duty. ... here because we love our country ... stronger at home, respected in the world ... quotes Thomas Wolfe ... you can't go home again ... I was born in the West Wing ... [MORE TRUTH than he intended. Kerry thinks he was born to be President and we owe him the job.] ... the bicycle into East Berlin story ... [THIS MAN became as a child an intellectual before he had a chance to become a normal grown-up. That's what made him weird when I first met him in college -- he was put in a kennel as a child and adapted to it strangely.] .. start by telling the truth to the American people ... [BUT he is lying in his campaign to get there.] ....judge me by my record ... [OKAY, you're in big trouble.] ... says he was interested in the MIAs ... [TRUTH IS, he covered up the evidence of the MIAs.] ... we need to life up America again ... on behalf of the middle class ... [GOOD JOB for a billionaire, right?] .... with great faith in the american people I accept your nomination for President of the United States ...
I am proud that at my side will be someone who has worked all his life to achieve the American dream ... John Edwards, this son of a mill worker ... [KERRY bought the Edwards lie] ... America will embrace Teresa as the next First Lady of the United States ... now he thanks his children ... now he thanks his "Band of Brothers" ... we may be a little greyer, but we still know how to fight for our country ... and now he thanks all his primary opponents ... for giving us the unity to moveAmerica forward ...
goes into the unity and strength of America on 9/11 and the immediate aftermath ... there were no Democrats, there were no Republicans, there were only Americans ... and how we wish that it would have stayed that way ... [NOW WHO brought down that wall?] ... as President I will wage this war with the lessons I learned in war ... fundamental values against a threat that is real and unavoidable ... you will never be asked to fight a war without a plan to win the peace ... [A QUICK READ of the history of Germany and Japan AFTER WW II demonstrates that this man is an historical moron for making this statement.] ... to the armed services I say [WITH DICK CHENEY] help is on the way ...
America as a beacon in the world ... [QUOTING REAGAN and Cotton Mather, "a Shining City on a Hill."] ...
On security, back to talking about containers in ports ... [WAS THIS a tip he got from Sandy Berger's briefs, so to speak?] ... the patriotism argument raised ... [ANYONE WHO objects to my opinions must be questioning my patriotism.] ... Long lecture on "that flag" ... [DID HE keep up with the fact "that flag" was burned in the street outside the Fleet Center just this afternoon.] ... values are not just words ... [THIS WILL come back to bite him.] ... laundry list of medical premiums, drug costs, assorted nickel & dime issues ... litany of "help is on the way." ... where is the conscience of America ...
Here is our economic plan ... diddly details ... value an America that exports products, not jobs ... fiscal responsibility to cut the deficit in half in four years ... like failies who must pay as you go ... [THE BIPARTISAN LIE about social security trust fund.] ... education plan sets high standards ... [HOW CAN standards be held high, without testing of both students and teachers.] ... talks about affordable health care ... [DOES HE know that John Edwards has been suing the socks off of doctors and hospitals for the last 30 years?] ...
Now independence of foreign oil ... [ANWAR.] ...
Direct comments to President Bush ... let's respect one another ... not abuse the Constitution of the United States ... [THERE'S GOING to be a huge backlash against Kerry on the homosexual marriage issue and the Constitution] ... we welcome people of faith ... [AS LONG AS they check their principles at the door.] ... one belief should bind us all ... these aren't Repub or Demo values, these are American values ...
look at the horizon and ask what if ... [LAME and twisted copy of Robert Kennedy's famouns remark.] ... leadership as good as the American dream ... I learned a lot about these values on the Mekong Delta ... we were literally all in the same boat ... that is the kind of America we live in.
[WILL THIS NEVER END? ] ... Our best days are yet to come. Thank you and good night.
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