Reporting for Duty
John Kerry officially accepted the Democratic Nomination for President. He gave easily his most passionate speech ever and I now believe he has a legitimate shot had winning the upcoming election. The convention was one of the dullest ever and experts all agreed that Kerry really needed to rally the troops. He was passionate, he was clear in his ideals, he was critical more of the Vice Presiedent & other cabinet members rather than George Bush, and he spoke often of his ability to lead due to his miltary service. My favorite part of the speech was when he spoke of Bush's words immediately following 9/11 about how we needed to become one America, and how he believes in this ideal and will work to bring everyone in America together.
Hope is on the Way is the message the Democrats have adopted, and I think people may believe this bullshit. The democrats are really banking on John Edwards being the American dream, the son of a mill worker who wroked his way up and has only had a brief career in politics. Kerry spoke of how no American will need to worry about his/her prescription drugs and no more outsourcing of jobs. He spoke of re-expanding the middle class and trying to eliminate poverty. Colin Quinn made a great point about this on Tough Crowd, every four years the party not in the White House talks of how they are going to help the poor people and give every one a fair shot, and nothing ever changes.
One thing that seems to have been overlooked in Kerry's speech is his promise to basically increase military spending. He spoke of employing more troops (adding 40,000 full time personnell), increasing special ops forces to combat terrorism, and a complete overhaul of the intelligence community. All these will cost a boat load of money and where & when he said this in the speech seem to get drowned out by his ra-ra stuff. I just hope he takes into considertation things like Education and the rising number of teenage & single parent households.
Hopefully, Hope is on the Way.
Hope is on the Way is the message the Democrats have adopted, and I think people may believe this bullshit. The democrats are really banking on John Edwards being the American dream, the son of a mill worker who wroked his way up and has only had a brief career in politics. Kerry spoke of how no American will need to worry about his/her prescription drugs and no more outsourcing of jobs. He spoke of re-expanding the middle class and trying to eliminate poverty. Colin Quinn made a great point about this on Tough Crowd, every four years the party not in the White House talks of how they are going to help the poor people and give every one a fair shot, and nothing ever changes.
One thing that seems to have been overlooked in Kerry's speech is his promise to basically increase military spending. He spoke of employing more troops (adding 40,000 full time personnell), increasing special ops forces to combat terrorism, and a complete overhaul of the intelligence community. All these will cost a boat load of money and where & when he said this in the speech seem to get drowned out by his ra-ra stuff. I just hope he takes into considertation things like Education and the rising number of teenage & single parent households.
Hopefully, Hope is on the Way.
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John Edwards has never known what it is like to live with a "mill worker" for a father. My father was a "mill worker", Edwards's father was plant manager which at that time meant he pretty much owned the mill. People I know in the Upstate of SC will tell you that he is from a well off family. So the BS of him growing up poor and making it on his own really irritates me. Always remeber, Democrats suck. And Kerry hasn't given the same speech twice yet. Three weeks ago his plan was to tax everyone and cut military spending, then at the convention he was talking about creating new military positions.
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