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beachmom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-22-09 04:02 PM
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"Luxury we can no longer afford". Did anyone see that Obama's speech borrowed from Dissent?
Edited on Fri May-22-09 04:03 PM by beachmom
I had to smile when Obama said that line. In this ABC Report, you can hear him say it at 3:19:

http://abcnews.go.com/video/playerIndex?id=7649457

What Kerry said in '06:

http://www.democracycellproject.net/blog/archives/2006/04/liveblogging_pa.html

And the most dangerous defeatists, the most dispiriting pessimists, are those who invoke September 11th to argue that our traditional values are a luxury we can no longer afford.

Same exact phrase, said about the same thing.

I'm still bitter that the MSM is patting itself on the back for covering the "Dueling speeches" when they NEVER did that against Bush.

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YvonneCa Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-22-09 05:43 PM
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1. I did. I play Kerry's dissent speech from time to time...
...so I know a lot from memory. (That's scary. :scared: )

There have been a couple of lines in Obama's speeches that are near direct quotes. I think that's pretty cool. One could infer from that... :7
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