junker
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Wed Jul-28-04 09:30 PM
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Sharpton made me cry. That damn preacher can really lay it out. |
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Even old men have memories of the truth, they come out in our tears.
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Wed Jul-28-04 09:33 PM
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I couldn't help it. He's a powerful orator.
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Wed Jul-28-04 09:42 PM
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2. he was amazing..... told it like it is |
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we ALL need to be that fired up and ride these donkeys as far as we can go!!!!
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Wed Jul-28-04 09:50 PM
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3. The NYT has his speech |
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Enjoy http://www.nytimes.com/2004/07/27/politics/campaign/28TEXT-SHARPTON.html?pagewanted=print&position=A small part: This court has voted five to four on critical issues of women's rights and civil rights. It is frightening to think that the gains of civil and women rights and those movements in the last century could be reversed if this administration is in the White House in these next four years.
I suggest to you tonight that if George Bush had selected the court in '54, Clarence Thomas would have never got to law school.
This is not about a party. This is about living up to the promise of America. The promise of America says we will guarantee quality education for all children and not spend more money on metal detectors than computers in our schools.
The promise of America guarantees health care for all of its citizens and doesn't force seniors to travel to Canada to buy prescription drugs they can't afford here at home.
We did it with a go-it-alone foreign policy based on flawed intelligence. We were told that we were going to Iraq because there were weapons of mass destruction. We've lost hundreds of soldiers. We've spent $200 billion dollars at a time when we had record state deficits. And when it became clear that there were no weapons, they changed the premise for the war and said: No, we went because of other reasons.
If I told you tonight, Let's leave the Fleet Center, we're in danger, and when you get outside, you ask me, Reverend Al, What is the danger? and I say, It don't matter. We just needed some fresh air, I have misled you and we were misled.
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