the first one was also for John Kerry made at the dnc unity dinner shorty after Kerry became the presumed nominee. the entire speech was much longer and he talked about many things including saying a positive thing about all the primary candidates. but the "send me" was in here as well and it was just as powerful when he said it then as he did at the convention yesterday.
<Now, here's what I know about John Kerry. In the Vietnam era which marked us all, most young men, including the President, the Vice President, and me, most of us should've gone to Vietnam and didn't go.
And John Kerry said, send me.
Then when it was all over and it was time to heal up and normalize relations with Vietnam, if would could get an accounting, a full accounting of all of our POWs and MIAs and we needed somebody who's been there to stand up and take a leadership role, John Kerry said, send me.
And when almost nobody in the Congress was really interested in all of these poor children that were living in horribly violent neighborhoods when I became President, because after all they weren't organized, they didn't have a PAC that didn't give any money, they didn't vote, their parents didn't vote, there was hardly anybody that really cared about what these kids were going through. The person in the Senate who talked to me all the time about it was John Kerry.
When he looked into the eyes of those poor kids growing up on mean street, he said, send me.
When we needed to have an America that was united across racial and gender and sexual orientation and immigrant and non-immigrant lines, and the new Republican majority was trying to cut us up nine ways from Sunday, John Kerry said send me.
When we needed real homeland security, more police, more fire, more protection in our ports and airports, John Kerry said, send me.
On many of these issues, the Republicans were AWOL. Last year there was a vote in the Congress, where David Obey said let's double the number of container's we're checking at our ports and airports for weapons of mass destruction. All the experts say five percent's not enough, we have to check at least ten percent to have any kind of deterrent at all.
And I'll pay for it by reducing the tax cut of the 200,000 Americans who pay taxes on over one million dollars from $88 to $83 thousand. Ninety percent of us would have gladly paid it. The White House and the leadership in Congress fought it like a demon because much as it would be nice for the ports and airports to be safe, and after spending 150 billion dollars in Iraq, it wasn't worth it to take five thousand lousy bucks away from my tax cut.
And though all these things, John Kerry has been there saying, send me.
When he was down in the early going, he didn't whine, or bow his head. And when he got up, he didn't gloat, or lord it over anybody. He was the same person when he was down and when he was up, and when he moving. He knows who he is and he knows what he believes.
Our adversaries are good at this folks. They didn't get to hold onto the White House all these years ever since 1958 except for President Carter and me by being bad at what they do. And they're gonna do their darndest to turn a good man into a cartoon. They love power, they know how to get it, and they know how to keep it. Our party has a new leader. We know we're going in the wrong direction, he knows what to do to turn it around.
So I ask you to do just one simple thing. I ask you to look at John Kerry tonight, and say to him, what he has said to us his entire adult life: send me.>
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