Jerky's Top Ten excerpts from Kerry's speech:

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(I always had a soft spot for Jerky)


The TOP TEN EXCERPTS from KERRY's "SUPER TUESDAY" VICTORY SPEECH!

10. "For more than 30 years, I've been on the battle lines, on the frontlines of the struggle for fairness and for mainstream American values, and in 2004, I pledge we will tell the truth about what has happened in our country."

9. "I pledge to you with every fiber in my body and every ounce of energy that I can find, we will put the tax code of this nation up to the light of democracy and scrutiny of the American people, and we will repeal every tax break and every loophole that rewards any corporation for gaming the tax code and going overseas to avoid their responsibilities to people in the United States of America."

8. "We will fight as never before for workers protections and for environmental protections in the trade agreements of the United States of America. And, long overdue, waiting to be achieved as a matter of fundamental fairness, we will raise the minimum wage so that no one in America works a 40-hour work week and can't get out of poverty."

7. "We will meet one of the most historic challenges of our generation. We will provide a bold new initiative to guarantee that we have a plan for energy independence for the United States. We will invest in the technologies of the future. And we will create 500,000 new jobs doing so, so that no young American in uniform will ever be held hostage to America's dependence on oil in the Middle East."

6. "We will complete the mission begun by Harry Truman to make certain that health care is regarded as a right and not a privilege in the United States of America."

5. "On behalf of all Americans and on behalf of the other 96 percent of humankind waiting for leadership from the United States, we will re-join the community of nations and we will renew our alliances and we will build new alliances because they are essential to the final victory and success of a war on terror."

4. "This president has said again and again that he wants to run on national security. Well, if George Bush wants to make national security the central issue of the campaign of 2004, I have three words for him that I know he understands: BRING IT ON."

3. "Our opponents can't campaign on jobs or heath care or fiscal responsibility. Instead, George Bush, who promised to become a uniter, has become the great divider. And just last week he proposed to amend the Constitution of the United States for political purposes. And we say that he has no right to misuse the most precious document in our history in an effort to divide this nation and distract us from our goals."

2. "Our campaign is about building a fairer, safer, more prosperous America, the nation that is again the great light to all the world."

1. "The message rings out across the land tonight: Get ready, a new day is on the way."

[BeatleBoot]

1. It's A Beautiful Day!

Don't Let it Get Away...



"see the bird with a leaf in her mouth..."

[KC21304]

2. Thanks. Beautiful. Out the door in 2004. n/t

[Old and In the Way]

3. Who here cannot support these words?

Kerry can set the table, but it is up to us all to serve the agenda.

[sangha]

4. To paraphrase Seinfeld's mom

How can anyone NOT love Kerry?