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[Julien Sorel]

But we're also extremely vulnerable. Our economy--we're using three times--we've got three times as much foreign investment as we're investing--capital flow--as we're putting out there. They're investing here because they believe in us. We're using energy like it's going out of style. We're using five to eight times as much energy per capita as people in the rest of the world, twice as much as even the Europeans. We're vulnerable to security threats--everything from terrorism to the developing missiles that are--we know rogue states are developing to aim at us.

And so I think we have to have a new strategy, and we have to have a consensus on the strategy, and we have to have a bipartisan consensus, and politics has to stop in America at the water's edge. We've got to reach out, and we've got to find those people in the world and share our values and beliefs--and we've got to reinforce them. We've got to bring them here and let them experience the kind of life that we have. They've got to get an education here. They've got to be able to send their children here. They they've got to go home. And they've got to carry the burdens in their own lands, and to some extent we have to help them.


This was before 9/11. That wicked, wicked, evil man. That PNACer in disguise. That crypto-Republican. How dare he have the same message today that he had 3 years ago. He's just a shady opportunist. And how effing dare he, bring up the topic of energy conservation to a roomful of Republicans. This is a man whose values place him someplace to the right of Rush Limbaugh. If politics were fishing, Clark is the little fish that we should, by damn, throw back into the ocean! We're too good for him.

'Go Howard Dean! That's the one we want!'