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Chance
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 Posted: Thu Sep 02, 2004 9:50 pm Post subject: New Here - Help? I want to d/l Zell Miller's speech |
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if I'm posting in the wrong place. I can't tell all of you how proud you make me. I will be making a small donation to help you keep up your wonderful work!
Can anyone tell me how I can record Zell Miller's speech from the MSNBC website? My son-in-law is serving in Afghanistan and I would love to send it to him. I have a DVD burner on my computer and want him to see and hear the whole thing. Zell gave absolutely the most incredible speech I've ever heard!
I am the wife of a Viet Nam vet and besides the SIL in Afghanistan we have another who is full time Air Guard.
Again, let me say that I am proud of the work you're doing and my husband and I support all of you---100%.
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low26
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WalterW
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| Posted: Thu Sep 02, 2004 9:55 pm Post subject: Here's a transcript of Zell Miller's speech |
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I don't know where you can get a recording, but here's the text:
| Quote: | Text of Zell Miller's Speech at RNC
By The Associated Press
Text of speech by Democratic Sen. Zell Miller (news, bio, voting record) of Georgia as prepared for delivery Wednesday at the Republican National Convention:
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Since I last stood in this spot, a whole new generation of the Miller Family has been born: Four great grandchildren.
Along with all the other members of our close-knit family, they are my and Shirley's most precious possessions.
And I know that's how you feel about your family also. Like you, I think of their future, the promises and the perils they will face.
Like you, I believe that the next four years will determine what kind of world they will grow up in.
And like you, I ask which leader is it today that has the vision, the willpower and, yes, the backbone to best protect my family?
The clear answer to that question has placed me in this hall with you tonight. For my family is more important than my party.
There is but one man to whom I am willing to entrust their future and that man's name is George Bush (news - web sites).
In the summer of 1940, I was an 8-year-old boy living in a remote little Appalachian valley. Our country was not yet at war, but even we children knew that there were some crazy men across the ocean who would kill us if they could.
President Roosevelt, in his speech that summer, told America "all private plans, all private lives, have been in a sense repealed by an overriding public danger."
In 1940, Wendell Wilkie was the Republican nominee.
And there is no better example of someone repealing their "private plans" than this good man. He gave Roosevelt the critical support he needed for a peacetime draft, an unpopular idea at the time.
And he made it clear that he would rather lose the election than make national security a partisan campaign issue.
Shortly before Wilkie died, he told a friend, that if he could write his own epitaph and had to choose between "here lies a president" or "here lies one who contributed to saving freedom," he would prefer the latter.
Where are such statesmen today?
Where is the bipartisanship in this country when we need it most?
Now, while young Americans are dying in the sands of Iraq and the mountains of Afghanistan, our nation is being torn apart and made weaker because of the Democrat's manic obsession to bring down our Commander in Chief.
What has happened to the party I've spent my life working in?
I can remember when Democrats believed that it was the duty of America to fight for freedom over tyranny.
It was Democratic President Harry Truman who pushed the Red Army out of Iran, who came to the aid of Greece when Communists threatened to overthrow it, who stared down the Soviet blockade of West Berlin by flying in supplies and saving the city.
Time after time in our history, in the face of great danger, Democrats and Republicans worked together to ensure that freedom would not falter. But not today.
Motivated more by partisan politics than by national security, today's Democratic leaders see America as an occupier, not a liberator.
And nothing makes this Marine madder than someone calling American troops occupiers rather than liberators.
Tell that to the one-half of Europe that was freed because Franklin Roosevelt led an army of liberators, not occupiers.
Tell that to the lower half of the Korean Peninsula that is free because Dwight Eisenhower commanded an army of liberators, not occupiers.
Tell that to the half a billion men, women and children who are free today from the Baltics to the Crimea, from Poland to Siberia, because Ronald Reagan (news - web sites) rebuilt a military of liberators, not occupiers.
Never in the history of the world has any soldier sacrificed more for the freedom and liberty of total strangers than the American soldier. And, our soldiers don't just give freedom abroad, they preserve it for us here at home.
For it has been said so truthfully that it is the soldier, not the reporter, who has given us the freedom of the press. It is the soldier, not the poet, who has given us freedom of speech.
It is the soldier, not the agitator, who has given us the freedom to protest.
It is the soldier who salutes the flag, serves beneath the flag, whose coffin is draped by the flag, who gives that protester the freedom to abuse and burn that flag.
No one should dare to even think about being the Commander in Chief of this country if he doesn't believe with all his heart that our soldiers are liberators abroad and defenders of freedom at home.
But don't waste your breath telling that to the leaders of my party today. In their warped way of thinking America is the problem, not the solution.
They don't believe there is any real danger in the world except that which America brings upon itself through our clumsy and misguided foreign policy.
It is not their patriotism — it is their judgment that has been so sorely lacking. They claimed Carter's pacifism would lead to peace.
They were wrong.
They claimed Reagan's defense buildup would lead to war.
They were wrong.
And, no pair has been more wrong, more loudly, more often than the two Senators from Massachusetts, Ted Kennedy and John Kerry (news - web sites).
Together, Kennedy/Kerry have opposed the very weapons system that won the Cold War and that is now winning the War on Terror.
Listing all the weapon systems that Senator Kerry tried his best to shut down sounds like an auctioneer selling off our national security but Americans need to know the facts.
The B-1 bomber, that Senator Kerry opposed, dropped 40 percent of the bombs in the first six months of Operation Enduring Freedom.
The B-2 bomber, that Senator Kerry opposed, delivered air strikes against the Taliban in Afghanistan and Hussein's command post in Iraq.
The F-14A Tomcats, that Senator Kerry opposed, shot down Khadifi's Libyan MIGs over the Gulf of Sidra. The modernized F-14D, that Senator Kerry opposed, delivered missile strikes against Tora Bora.
The Apache helicopter, that Senator Kerry opposed, took out those Republican Guard tanks in Kuwait in the Gulf War (news - web sites). The F-15 Eagles, that Senator Kerry opposed, flew cover over our Nation's Capital and this very city after 9/11.
I could go on and on and on: against the Patriot Missile that shot down Saddam Hussein (news - web sites)'s scud missiles over Israel; against the Aegis air-defense cruiser; against the Strategic Defense Initiative; against the Trident missile; against, against, against.
This is the man who wants to be the Commander in Chief of our U.S. Armed Forces?
U.S. forces armed with what? Spitballs?
Twenty years of votes can tell you much more about a man than twenty weeks of campaign rhetoric.
Campaign talk tells people who you want them to think you are. How you vote tells people who you really are deep inside.
Senator Kerry has made it clear that he would use military force only if approved by the United Nations (news - web sites).
Kerry would let Paris decide when America needs defending.
I want Bush to decide.
John Kerry, who says he doesn't like outsourcing, wants to outsource our national security.
That's the most dangerous outsourcing of all. This politician wants to be leader of the free world.
Free for how long?
For more than 20 years, on every one of the great issues of freedom and security, John Kerry has been more wrong, more weak and more wobbly than any other national figure.
As a war protester, Kerry blamed our military.
As a Senator, he voted to weaken our military. And nothing shows that more sadly and more clearly than his vote this year to deny protective armor for our troops in harms way, far away.
George Bush understands that we need new strategies to meet new threats.
John Kerry wants to re-fight yesterday's war. George Bush believes we have to fight today's war and be ready for tomorrow's challenges. George Bush is committed to providing the kind of forces it takes to root out terrorists.
No matter what spider hole they may hide in or what rock they crawl under.
George Bush wants to grab terrorists by the throat and not let them go to get a better grip.
From John Kerry, they get a "yes-no-maybe" bowl of mush that can only encourage our enemies and confuse our friends.
I first got to know George Bush when we served as governors together. I admire this man. I am moved by the respect he shows the first lady, his unabashed love for his parents and his daughters, and the fact that he is unashamed of his belief that God is not indifferent to America.
I can identify with someone who has lived that line in "Amazing Grace," "Was blind, but now I see," and I like the fact that he's the same man on Saturday night that he is on Sunday morning.
He is not a slick talker but he is a straight shooter and, where I come from, deeds mean a lot more than words.
I have knocked on the door of this man's soul and found someone home, a God-fearing man with a good heart and a spine of tempered steel.
The man I trust to protect my most precious possession: my family.
This election will change forever the course of history, and that's not any history. It's our family's history.
The only question is how. The answer lies with each of us. And, like many generations before us, we've got some hard choosing to do.
Right now the world just cannot afford an indecisive America. Fainthearted self-indulgence will put at risk all we care about in this world.
In this hour of danger our President has had the courage to stand up. And this Democrat is proud to stand up with him.
Thank you.
God Bless this great country and God Bless George W. Bush. " |
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azpatriot
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| Posted: Thu Sep 02, 2004 9:59 pm Post subject: |
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Wow this could be difficult the only sorce for this video I'v seen is on Foxnews, but their link call's it up through a java appelette which can't be saved locally.
If you can find a copy that you can save locally the rest will be easy.
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WalterW
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| Posted: Thu Sep 02, 2004 10:01 pm Post subject: |
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This was the most effective and important line in the entire speech, in my opinion.
| Quote: | I ask which leader is it today that has the vision, the willpower and, yes, the backbone to best protect my family?
The clear answer to that question has placed me in this hall with you tonight. For my family is more important than my party.
There is but one man to whom I am willing to entrust their future and that man's name is George Bush |
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Chance
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| Posted: Thu Sep 02, 2004 10:12 pm Post subject: Thanks to all of you! |
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I am so angry at myself. If I had recorded the darned speech last night, I wouldn't be trying to figure out how to get a copy now! Oh well, I'll keep looking. I have the text but wanted to let him see how effective it was actually seeing the speech. Thanks again!
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| Posted: Thu Sep 02, 2004 10:16 pm Post subject: Re: Thanks to all of you! |
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| Chance wrote: | | I am so angry at myself. If I had recorded the darned speech last night, I wouldn't be trying to figure out how to get a copy now! Oh well, I'll keep looking. I have the text but wanted to let him see how effective it was actually seeing the speech. Thanks again! |
Contact your friends maybe one of them has their PC hooked into their home intertainment system if thats the case then you could record it to VHS tape using the PC as the recording sorce.
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MassInd
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| Posted: Thu Sep 02, 2004 10:16 pm Post subject: GOP speech videos |
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Links to all the videos are at:
http://gopconvention.com/rewind/
Unfortunately, these are all javascript too. 
Just thought I'd let anyone know that these are up there.
Maybe you could try sending an email to some GOP rep, BushCheney04, or something of that sort. I'm sure all the troops would love to hear it, and the GOP would love them to hear it.
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Becky
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| Posted: Thu Sep 02, 2004 10:17 pm Post subject: Re: New Here & Sorry |
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| Chance wrote: | if I'm posting in the wrong place. I can't tell all of you how proud you make me. I will be making a small donation to help you keep up your wonderful work!
Can anyone tell me how I can record Zell Miller's speech from the MSNBC website? My son-in-law is serving in Afghanistan and I would love to send it to him. I have a DVD burner on my computer and want him to see and hear the whole thing. Zell gave absolutely the most incredible speech I've ever heard!
I am the wife of a Viet Nam vet and besides the SIL in Afghanistan we have another who is full time Air Guard.
Again, let me say that I am proud of the work you're doing and my husband and I support all of you---100%. |
Main Page
http://www.gopconvention.com
speech:
http://www.gopconvention.com/rewind/090104/miller.shtml
Zel's speech transcript:
http://www.gopconvention.com/cgi-data/speeches/files/ie65ay1zuai2r6ttb19uj6s2y6q7930j.shtml |
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ord33
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| Posted: Thu Sep 02, 2004 10:24 pm Post subject: |
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Chance,
I know this isnt video, but "SROUND" from the forum here gave us this link to the audio in MP3 format so you can at least hear the passion in Zell's voice. I hope this helps, and give your son our many thanks to him and everyone serving with him!
http://s2r-tech.com/swifty/zell.mp3
(You can click on the link to listen to it, and if you want to save it, right click on the link and go to "SAVE TARGET AS", and then save it under a location where you want and you should be good to go! |
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Proud of my VietVet Dad!
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| Posted: Thu Sep 02, 2004 10:46 pm Post subject: |
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Hi Chance,
My mom has last night's speeches on VHS. If the link above isn't able to be copied to your computer, let me know. We can figure out a way to get you a copy. Good Luck
Kim |
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Navy_Navy_Navy
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| Posted: Thu Sep 02, 2004 10:59 pm Post subject: |
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Hello and welcome! Best wishes to your son!
I changed your title so that it will reflect what you need and maybe someone will be able to help. Good luck! 
I'm moving this thread to the Geedunk forum in a bit.
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Chance
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| Posted: Thu Sep 02, 2004 11:05 pm Post subject: You are all so very kind! |
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I recorded the speech and PM'd Kim to see if her mom can make me a copy of the tape. You have all been so very kind! By the way, my name is really Hank. I tried to sign up under it but someone else has it. I'm female (I know, I know, strange name for a woman) and my husband and I are 57 yrs. old. We have been married 38 years and have 13 grandchildren from 4 married daughters. It is my son-in-law that is in Afghanistan. We just had a letter from him today. Says it's been 11 days since he was able to shower and the temp there is about 110. He may get to come home in October for 2 weeks of R&R. That would be so nice as he has a 3 yr.old daughter and his son is 7 months old and was just a month old when Dave left. You are the nicest bunch of people, but then, I'm not surprised. Most of the military that I've know has been. Just a FEW exceptions!
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| Posted: Thu Sep 02, 2004 11:17 pm Post subject: |
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| I've had the best results in downloading audio versions the convention speeches from the NPR site(http://www.npr.org) - they don't make it easy to find them on the site, but they are all there in Real Audio form. I'm a Mac person and I use a program called Audio Hijack Pro to save them as mp3 files while they are playing. I'm sure there must be a Windows equivalent application. |
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| Posted: Thu Sep 02, 2004 11:36 pm Post subject: ... |
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I recorded the speeches last night on the DVR/Tivo... I know I can copy to VHS, but DVD may be a little complicated for me.. Thank God my husband is a computer tech! ~L~ I can't make the promise of a DVD, but I can sure try!
Leave me a PM, if you need/want me to check it out for you!
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