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shawa
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 Posted: Mon Sep 26, 2005 8:01 am Post subject: Kerry, Edwards Show Two Sides Of Democrats |
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This editorial has a hilarious analysis of sKerry's speech.
Senator Ahab and the great white monster!!!
| Quote: | Published Sunday, September 25, 2005
Kerry, Edwards Show Two Sides Of Democrats
John Kerry and John Edwards ran for office together, and they lost together, and they both gave major speeches about Hurricane Katrina last week, but there the similarity ends. The two men might as well live in different worlds.
Kerry began his speech by making the point that Bush and his crew are rotten. He then went on to make the point that Bush and his crew are loathsome. In the third section of the speech, Kerry left the impression that Bush and his crew are evil.
Now we all know people so consumed by hatred for George Bush that they haven't had an unpredictable thought in five years, but in Kerry's speech one sees this anger in almost clinical form.
In the first place, not even Karl Rove's worldview is so obsessively Bush-centric as John Kerry's. There are many interesting issues raised by Katrina, but for Sen. Ahab it all goes back to the great white monster, Bush. Bush and his crew should have known the levees were weak. Bush and his crew should have known thousands in New Orleans would be trapped. (Did I miss Kerry's own warnings on these subjects?)
All reality flows back to Bush.
And as the speech stretches on, a second thought occurs: Doesn't this guy ever get bored? If Kerry ever makes an anti-Bush jab, he makes it again. The old DeLay jibes, he makes them again. The Wolfowitz attacks, he makes them again. Porn movies have less repetition than this, and yet the "Mission Accomplished" carrier deck scene gets hauled out again, for one feels this is not a normal speech designed to persuade or inform, but a primitive rite designed to channel group outrage.
John Edwards' speech had a different feel. Edwards took some hard shots at Bush, some of them deserved, but having left Washington after the election, Edwards is not so obsessed with power struggles. In his talk he roamed outward and spoke about the complexities of actual life.
He mentioned that the typical white family has about $80,000 in assets, while the typical Hispanic family has about $8,000, and the typical African-American family has about $6,000. That's an astonishing gap.
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rparrott21
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| Get a good education, work hard, get off welfare and that gap may get closer....I don't like working to better myself only to have to pay more taxes to support slackers.. |
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