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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsKennedy pretty powerful rebuttal so far
especially when he spoke Spanish
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Kennedy pretty powerful rebuttal so far (Original Post)
gabeana
Jan 2018
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GP6971
(31,226 posts)1. VERY POWERFUL
"And my generation will tear this wall down".
riversedge
(70,347 posts)2. Here are some of his words........
Tweets, current page. Tweets & replies Media
Rep. Joe Kennedy III
Verified account @RepJoeKennedy
28s29 seconds ago
You bravely say, #metoo. You steadfastly say, #blacklivesmatter. #SOTUResponse
3 replies 87 retweets 60 likes
Rep. Joe Kennedy III
Verified account @RepJoeKennedy
36s37 seconds ago
"You sat high atop your moms shoulders and held a sign that read: Build a wall and my generation will tear it down. #SOTUResponse
4 replies 128 retweets 122 likes
Rep. Joe Kennedy III
Verified account @RepJoeKennedy
1m1 minute ago
And to all the Dreamers watching tonight, let me be absolutely clear...You are a part of our story. We will fight for you. We will not walk away. #SOTUResponse
0 replies 156 retweets 0 likes
Rep. Joe Kennedy III
Verified account @RepJoeKennedy
2m2 minutes ago
And to all the Dreamers out there watching tonight, let me be absolutely clear: Ustedes son parte de nuestra historia. Vamos a luchar por ustedes y no nos vamos alejar. #SOTUResponse
5 replies 433 retweets 156 likes
Rep. Joe Kennedy III
Verified account @RepJoeKennedy
3m3 minutes ago
We choose the thousands of American communities whose roads arent paved with power or privilege, but with honest effort, good faith, and the resolve to build something better for their kids. That is our story. #SOTUResponse
0 replies 267 retweets 1 like
Rep. Joe Kennedy III
Verified account @RepJoeKennedy
3m3 minutes ago
We choose an economy strong enough to boast record stock prices and brave enough to admit that top CEOs making 300 times the average worker is not right. #SOTUResponse
1 reply 189 retweets 86 likes
Rep. Joe Kennedy III
Verified account @RepJoeKennedy
3m3 minutes ago
We choose pensions that are solvent, trade pacts that are fair, roads and bridges that wont rust away, a good education that you can afford, and a health care system that wont leave you bankrupt. #SOTUResponse
0 replies 192 retweets 0 likes
Rep. Joe Kennedy III
Verified account @RepJoeKennedy
4m4 minutes ago
We choose the living wage, paid leave and affordable child care your family needs to survive. #SOTUResponse
19 replies 245 retweets 212 likes
Rep. Joe Kennedy III
Verified account @RepJoeKennedy
4m4 minutes ago
We choose a better deal for all who call this country home. #SOTUResponse
6 replies 247 retweets 233 likes
Rep. Joe Kennedy III
Verified account @RepJoeKennedy
4m4 minutes ago
Here is the answer Democrats offer tonight: we choose both. We fight for both. Because the greatest, strongest, richest nation in the world shouldnt leave anyone behind. #SOTUResponse
16 replies 670 retweets 442 likes
Rep. Joe Kennedy III
Verified account @RepJoeKennedy
5m5 minutes ago
As if the parent who lies awake terrified that their transgender son will be beaten and bullied at school is any more or less legitimate than the parent whose heart is shattered by a daughter in the grips of opioid addiction. #SOTUResponse
45 replies 215 retweets 441 likes
Rep. Joe Kennedy III
Verified account @RepJoeKennedy
5m5 minutes ago
We are bombarded with one false choice after another: Coal miners or single moms. Rural communities or inner cities. The coast or the heartland. #SOTUResponse
62 replies 361 retweets 518 likes
Rep. Joe Kennedy III
Verified account @RepJoeKennedy
6m6 minutes ago
They are turning American life into a zero-sum game. Where, for one to win, another must lose. Where we can guarantee Americas safety if we slash our safety net. #SOTUResponse
38 replies 358 retweets 517 likes
Rep. Joe Kennedy III
Verified account @RepJoeKennedy
7m7 minutes ago
"Their record is a rebuke of our highest American ideal: the belief that we are all worthy, we are all equal and we all count. In the eyes of our law and our leaders, our God and our government. That is the American promise." #SOTUResponse
85 replies 390 retweets 577 likes
Rep. Joe Kennedy III
Verified account @RepJoeKennedy
8m8 minutes ago
It would be easy to dismiss the past year as chaos. As partisanship. As politics. But its far, far bigger than that. This administration isnt just targeting the laws that protect us they are targeting the very idea that we are all worthy of protection. #SOTUResponse
163 replies 730 retweets 1,055 likes
Rep. Joe Kennedy III
Verified account @RepJoeKennedy
9m9 minutes ago
We all feel the fractured fault lines across our country. We hear the voices of Americans who are forgotten and feel forsaken. #SOTUResponse
196 replies 397 retweets 924 likes
Rep. Joe Kennedy III
Verified account @RepJoeKennedy
10m10 minutes ago
Like many American hometowns, Fall River has faced its share of storms. But people here are tough. They fight for each other. They pull for their city. #SOTUResponse
48 replies 201 retweets 569 likes
Rep. Joe Kennedy III
Verified account @RepJoeKennedy
11m11 minutes ago
Tune in right now on Facebook as I deliver the Democratic #SOTUResponse from Fall River: https://www.facebook.com/CongressmanJoeKennedyIII/
70 replies 340 retweets 745 likes
Rep. Joe Kennedy III
Verified account @RepJoeKennedy
22m22 minutes ago
Head on over to my Facebook page to watch me give the live Democratic response to the #SOTU in just a few minutes: https://www.facebook.com/CongressmanJoeKennedyIII/ #SOTUResponse
Cha
(297,799 posts)3. Mahalo, rivers!
C_U_L8R
(45,025 posts)4. What a difference
Trump spoke selfishly and transparently of nationalist aggrandizement
And Kennedy spoke from the heart of everything America is all about.
What a difference.
RandomAccess
(5,210 posts)5. I was Night and Day. Magnificent.
MaryMagdaline
(6,856 posts)6. Wow! That's a speech!
Xipe Totec
(43,890 posts)7. That was no speech; that was poetry. nt
MaryMagdaline
(6,856 posts)8. Sorely needed poetry
4now
(1,596 posts)10. Kennedy is a Democrat that I can fully support