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| Kucinich electrifies convention arena (you have to be really bored) | ||
| 2008-08-26 | ||
Rep. Dennis Kucinich, erstwhile presidential candidate and strident opponent of the Bush administration, gave the most spirited speech of the session Tuesday condemning the war, the economy and the Republicans. Short in stature, the Ohio congressman leaped up onto his tip toes time and again, thrusting his arms out and up, getting the crowd to roar so loudly he had to yell into the microphone to be heard.
"Fellow Democrats, are you ready for November?" he asked. Are you ready to rumble, Joe Dirt! "It's election day 2006 and we Democrats are giving America a wake up call. Wake up, America!" How about a enema. That would be more pleasant. In 2001, the oil companies and the war contractors seized the country and added four trillion dollars to the national debt. "Millions of Americans have lost their jobs; trillions of dollars for an unwarranted war paid for with borrowed money; tens of millions of dollars in cash and weapons disappeared into thin air at the cost of the lives of our troops and innocent Iraqis." Meanwhile, with the U.S. helping to rebuild infrastructure in Iraq and Afghanistan, "there is no money to rebuild bridges in America." Then he launched into a "Wake Up" litany: "The insurance companies took over health care. Wake up, America! "The pharmaceutical companies took over drug prices. Wake up, America" "The speculators took over Wall Street. Wake up, America!" With each refrain, the delegates grew more frenzied.
"This administration can tap our phones but they can't tap our creative spirit. They can open our mail but they can't open economic opportunities. They can track our every move but they lost track of the economy. He played on the terror alert level "color chart." "Every day we get the color orange while the oil companies, the insurance companies, the speculators, the war contractors get the color green. Wake up, America. "This is not a call for you to take a new direction from right to left; this is a call for you to go from down to up. "Up with peace!" Kucinich yelled to approving roarsIn a squeaky voice.. "Up with prosperity! Up with education! Up with Democrats! Up yours!! The delegates continued to cheer through the first part of the next speaker's remarks. The day Dennis Kucinich gets me excited, will be the day after they invent intellectual Viagra. | ||
| Posted by:anymouse |