The stump speech
The Senator appears comfortable with his stump speech… he’s hitting the old Democratic standards: “our children will be the first generation of Americans to inherit a poorer country than their parents inherited.”
This is his crowd they’re eating it up. I’m a little more skeptical (hey it’s my job).
It’s a good speech, but here’s what I don’t like he’s looking for someone to blame, when at the end of the day the only one’s to blame are ourselves, but people don’t want to hear that. God forbid that people should have to take responsibility for something. But he’s not unique in the blame game, all politicians do it.
He’s hitting the oil companies now… it’s their fault we don’t use alternative energy. And now it’s the war…
He’s hitting on the “I was against this war from the start”… which is easy to say when you didn’t have to vote on it. Hell, I was against the war, but I was not in the Senate and I didn’t have to make that choice.
Oh here comes the internationalist bent of the Democrats… we need to rebuild the world.
He mentions Darfur which is a disaster.
Now he’s banging on Cheney… good red meat for the crowd.
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