"All in the same boat"-- a moving speech from Carol Moseley Braun

Excerpt from the speech Carol gave yesterday at the National Press Club:

I am not afraid to take up the challenge of breaking down conventional barriers to reach the helm of the ship of state to save our country for the next generation of Americans.

With women's help, those barriers will fall, and together we will keep alive the American dream of opportunity and freedom for our children. We will do so with the perspective and practicality and perseverance that women have always brought to bear on the important challenges. We are fearless and strong. We are able to build a new American community; a community in which safety, security, and freedom from fear are a function of our liberty and our leadership.

Instead of continuing to fritter away the goodwill and friendship around the world that could be our first defense against crime and terrorism, we will marshal our law enforcement assets and work with others, including our international institutions, to bring to justice those criminals who violated us on 9/11 and all their supporters and all their profiteers.

Instead of turning on the American people - tapping their phones and emails, forcing librarians to turn people in for reading the wrong books, examining baby's feet in airports, and holding people in secret detention - we will turn toward the people, and preserve our precious liberty by creating a community more vigilant than ever to threats to our common security.

Instead of trickle-down tax cuts for the few, we will embrace economic policies that put working people first, and give entrepreneurs and businesses a chance to revive the great engine of economic growth that can provide good jobs for the people. When we adopt a rational health care payment system, fair trade policies, and education programs that promote teaching - not just tests - for our country's future workforce, we will put in place a roadmap for social justice and the preservation of the American dream.

I think it was a speech she was giving to a woman's organization. What a treat to hear an intelligent, extremely well-spoken person attack Bush & his policies.

Moseley Braun and Kucinich on the same ticket!

We sure do need her 2 cents into the pot of thoughts in 2004