Who Said This ?????

[welshTerrier2]

no Googling please ... answer at 9:45 eastern time ...

a few words of wisdom for us all ...


The new meet-ups that have become possible and popular this year are a powerful force for change, but only when they go further than being a gathering of like-minded citizens; They must become organizing units for bringing in people who are not yet like-minded. They must become organizing units for people who will do more than sit around and share their feelings about politics; they must be platoons that go out and get real politics done.

This is an amazing moment in all of our lives, and in the life of our great nation. Never has our democracy been so challenged, and never have so many patriots of every age risen up to take their part in its defense. In the last two years, never have I been less proud of my government nor more proud of its people. This is a great time. We need to renew the spirit of our great American Revolution town by town, neighbor by neighbor and I tell you it is happening and you and I are well a part of it.

Let's do it right. Let's do deep politics that starts and ends with the needs of our people, so that we can do our part in the larger issues of the planet with this great Continental Army behind us.

[Birthmark]

1. Chester Alan Arthur?

It just sounds like something he'd say.

[welshTerrier2]

4. interesting but ... no ...

a hint: it was said in a speech that was made yesterday ...

[Birthmark]

5. Yesterday?

I don't remember that far back. I find it's usually best not to. But that's just me. :)

[Generator]

2. Bo Diddley?

[sablescort]

3. George Washington

I bet.

[spooked]

6. Don't tell me it was Dubya?!

I have a feeling...

[welshTerrier2]

7. OK ... here's the answer ...

the quote came from the last paragraphs in a speech given on July 29, 2004 by Granny D ... she was addressing the Progressive Democrats Alliance in Boston ...

read the rest of the speech ... she really got in a few great lines ...

source: http://grannyd.com/speech20040729.htm

here's another little gem from the speech:


Our present emergency is upon us because our civic society has been dumbed down by dumbed down newspapers, radio and television news, by dumbded down schools, and by a corporate-run economic rat race that keeps people so busy trying to make ends meet that they have no time nor energy left for the civic affairs of their town or nation. You certainly know all this, and we celebrate the rise of independent media and the use of books and now films to fill in some of the gaps. But the gaps are awesome, and democracy cannot long survive when the people are not well informed, interested, and supplied with sufficient time and resources to participate.

[Mikimouse]

8. Max Cleland?

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