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Thank you. Thank you, Gwen. Thank you, Mr. Vice President, for being here.
You know, when I was young and growing up, I remember coming down the steps into the kitchen early in the morning. And I would see the glow of the television. And I'd see my father sitting at a table. He wasn't paying bills and he wasn't doing paperwork from work. What he was doing was learning math on television. Now, he didn't have a college education. But he was doing what he could do to get a better job in the mill where he worked. I was proud of him. And still proud of him.
And I was also hopeful because I knew that I lived in a country where I could get a college education. Heres the truth. I have grown up in the bright light of America. But that light is flickering today. Now, I know that the vice president and the president dont see it. But you do. You see it when your incomes are going down and the cost of everything college tuition, health care is going through the roof. You see it when you sit at your table each night and theres an empty chair because a loved one is serving in Iraq or Afghanistan. What theyre going to give you is four more years of the same.
John Kerry and I believe that we can do better. We believe in a strong middle class in this country. Thats why we have a plan to create jobs, getting rid of tax cuts for companies outsourcing your jobs, give tax cuts to companies thatll keep jobs here in America. Its why we have a health care plan. Its why we have a plan to keep you safe and to fix fix this mess in Iraq.
The truth is that every four years you get to decide. You have the ability to decide where America is going to go.
John Kerry and I are asking you to give us the power to fight for you, to fight to keep that that dream in America that I saw as a young man, alive for every parent sitting at that kitchen table.
This was the best little speech I've ever heard. I loved how he went back to the kitchen table at the end. Cheney's statement was miserable next to this.
Sorry if this has already been discussed.
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