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Dirty Hippie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-08-04 03:28 PM
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John Kerry's Democratic Convention Speech! Not ...
Edited on Mon Mar-08-04 03:29 PM by OhMyGod
But a Speech One of Our Readers Would Like Him to Deliver.

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This is a great read. All about what "liberals" have done for America


You have probably heard quite a few denigrating comments about me from the opposing side, talking about my being "weak on defense." Yes, the Bush attack machine is calling me a "Massachusetts liberal."

Well, Mr. Bush, let me tell you and the American people what being a Massachusetts liberal means to me. First, take a look at history. The Republicans are trying to paint their party as strong on defense. Let us review that claim.

Over the past 100 years, the United States has won two major world wars. The first was led by Woodrow Wilson, a New Jersey liberal. The second was led by Franklin Delano Roosevelt, a New York liberal. These two liberals led the American military and its Allies to stunning victories in each war.

Then when the Cold War took place after Harry S. Truman, a Missouri liberal, forced the Soviet Union against the wall with his actions at the end of WWII, the greatest victory of the Cold War took place. That occurred in 1962 when another Massachusetts liberal, John Fitzgerald Kennedy, brought the Soviet Union to its knees in the Cuban Missile Crisis. That action placed a crack in the Communist wall, and it led to the fall of Nikita Khrushchev, the rise of Perestroika, and ultimately to the fall of the Communist system of government in the Soviet Union.

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On edit: Link would help!
http://www.buzzflash.com/contributors/04/03/con04101.html
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