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Tyler Hansen @tylerisajoke
@GovernorOMalley stopped by #IADems Hall Of Fame dinner last night to say #ThankYouTom Harkin.
excerpts from speech by Maryland Gov. Martin O'Malley at the Iowa Democratic Party's state convention today:
. I dont know about you, but Ive had enough of the cynicism. Ive had enough of the apathy. Ive had enough of us giving in to self-pity, small solutions and low expectations of one another.
Lets remember who we are.
For 235 years, we have been the country that thrilled the world and led the world over and over again, in large part, by making ourselves stronger at home.
Dont you think its time to do it again?
The patriots who made America great did not pray for their president to fail, they prayed for their president to succeed.
Our founders didnt belittle science and learning; they aspired to it.
They didnt appeal to Americas fears; they inspired American courage.
And they would never ever abandon the war on poverty in order to declare a war on women, a war on workers, a war on immigrants, a war on the sick, and a war on hungry children.
The cynical few who have hacked our democracy are digging in.
Yes, these TEA-Party Republicans funded by their wealthy economic royalists friends, like the Koch brothers see America as a small place
A business in decline.
A place of limited capacity and limited potential.
A place that can only afford to serve the interests of the privileged few.
Weve seen this view before, havent we? Hoover called it supply side economics. Reagan called it trickle-down economics. George W. Bush called it , focusing on my base.
Whatever they call it, it will not give our children a better and more prosperous future with more jobs and more opportunity for all.
To those who would prescribe this future of less for Americas middle class, we must ask the very real and serious question how much less do you think would be good for our country?
How much less education will make our children smarter?
How many fewer college graduates will make our economy more competitive?
How many hungry American children can we no longer afford to feed?
Think about your parents and grandparents picture their faces they understood the essential truth of the American Dream.
The stronger we make our country, the more she gives back to us; the more she gives back to our children and our grandchildren.
We will not solve our problems by doing less. We must do more.
The truth is, we are all going to the same place.
We are all on the same bus.
Iowa and Maryland. California and Mississippi.
We will move forward or we will slip back together
We will succeed or fail together
And we will rise or fall together.
This is not a matter of wishing or hoping.
Its a matter of belief and action.
We are Americans, we make our own destiny.
And we will not be the first generation to give our children a country of less.
It means that Iowa must stand up. It means that Maryland must stand up. It means each of us must stand up.
It only takes one person, then another, then another to stand up and say: enough.
Enough obstruction. Enough wasted time. Stop selling our country short.
Let us achieve like Americans again.
Let us lead like Americans again.
And let us believe like Americans again in ourselves, in our nation, and in one another.
Together we can.
Together we must.
Polk County canvass kick off in Beaverdale. pic.twitter.com/ENHiwQgnET
full transcript: http://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/politics/elections/2014/06/21/martin-omalley-iowa-democrats-convention-speech/11209343/
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Heres the full video from my speech earlier today at the @iowademocrats 2014 Convention. Please share. http://www.c-span.org/video/?320008-1/governor-omalley-iowa-democratic-state-convention
bluestateguy
(44,173 posts)Sorry, something stuck in my throat there.
RufusTFirefly
(8,812 posts)I'm not sure why you're making the Dukakis connection, but if you're suggesting that he's an aloof East Coast liberal elitist who seems uncomfortable in his own skin, I think you're very much mistaken.
But perhaps I misunderstood your point.
bluestateguy
(44,173 posts)But very much a lightweight.
Not major league material who can win in a post-Citizens United era.
RufusTFirefly
(8,812 posts)He went to one of the most prestigious private colleges in the East. But he rarely came off as a nice guy. In fact, he was routinely criticized as a technocrat. Your objections to O'Malley may have merit, but the comparisons to Dukakis are strained at best.
Cha
(297,298 posts)monmouth3
(3,871 posts)Cha
(297,298 posts)Obama Diary when I got online and there was big ol spread about Gov O'Malley in Iowa.
Really like what he had to say about this..
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butterfly77
(17,609 posts)Some people seem to think it is Hillary's for the taking. I'm looking at every candidate.
femmocrat
(28,394 posts)When I see these phrases, they seem so familiar and I remember how many times I became enamored with such messages... only to have all those hopes for a better future dashed when election day is over.
I've been to that well too many times.
dsc
(52,162 posts)He brought MD an increase in the minimum wage to 10 bucks, he brought it marriage equality, he brought it gun control to name three.
Cha
(297,298 posts)MoonchildCA
(1,301 posts)I'd like to see him in the running, and Bernie Sanders too. They've both mentioned the possibility.
We need to open up the conversation on our side this next presidential election. I really don't like the idea of Hillary being a forgone conclusion.
madville
(7,412 posts)Unless we nominate one, then the republicans have a big advantage because our turnout will suffer.
We need a woman and/or a Hispanic/black candidate to have an edge in 2016