The best part of Rev. Sharpton's Speech.

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Thu Jul-29-04 04:14 PM
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The best part of Rev. Sharpton's Speech.

This is the part that REALLY touched me:

"As you know, I live in New York. I was there September 11th when that despicable act of terrorism happened. A few days after, I left home, my family had taken in a young man who lost his family. And as they gave comfort to him, I had to do a radio show that morning. When I got there, my friend James Entume (ph) said, "Reverend, we're going to stop at a certain hour and play a song, synchronized with 990 other stations." I said, "That's fine." He said, "We're dedicating it to the victims of 9/11." I said, "What song are you playing?" He said, "We're playing "America the Beautiful."

The particular station I was at, they played that rendition sung by Ray Charles. As you know, we lost Ray a few weeks ago. But I sat there that morning and listened to Ray sing through those speakers, "Oh, beautiful for spacious skies, for amber waves of grain, for purple mountain majesty across the fruited plain." And it occurred to me as I heard Ray singing that Ray wasn't singing about what he knew, because Ray had been blind since he was a child. He hadn't seen many purple mountains. He hadn't seen many fruited plains. He was singing about what he believed to be.

Mr. President, we love America not because all of us have seen the beauty all the time; but we believed if we kept on working, if we kept on marching, if we kept on voting, if we kept on believing, we would make America beautiful for everybody! (Cheers, applause.)

Come November, let's make America beautiful again!! (Cheers, applause.)

Thank you, and God bless you. (Cheers, applause.)"

My mother who is definitively a swing voter. She doesn't like Bush or Kerry all that much. She said she might stay home -- she dislikes what Bush has done but isn't warming up to Kerry all that much either. She LOVED Al Sharpton's Speech. She said that Kerry should have picked Sharpton as his Vice President than John Edwards. When I heard her say that I thought back to last night when Tweedy and the other talking heads were slamming Sharpton, saying he was going to drive away swing voters -- and I smiled. The pundits and talking heads don't know what the hell they're talking about it. The American people aren't stupid. Some are mislead and misguided, but they aren't stupid. They *KNOW* Bush lied to them. They *KNOW* Bush is ruining the country, and they have no love for the man. A single black man who gets on stage and tells it like it is, and does so in away that makes you PROUD to be an American, that gives you hope for a better future, that shows you how far we've come and how much we have to lose, that does not hurt John Kerry. If anything Kerry could learn a thing or two from Sharpton.

With that said how many of you know someone who could possibly vote for Kerry but isn't all the way within his camp yet, and which part of Sharpton's Speech did you find most appealing?