Howard Zinn's Prez Candidate Stump Speech

[reprehensor]

http://www.progressive.org/jan04/zinn0104.html

"My fellow Americans, I ask for your vote for President because I believe we are at a point in the history of our country where we have a serious decision to make. That decision will deeply affect not only our lives, but also the lives of our children and grandchildren.

At this moment in our nation's history, we are on a very dangerous course. We can remain on that course, or we can turn onto a bold new path to fulfill the promise of the Declaration of Independence, which guarantees everyone an equal right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

The danger we are in today is that the war--a war without any foreseeable end--is not only taking the lives of our young but exhausting the great wealth of our nation. That wealth could be used to create prosperity for every American but is now being squandered on military interventions abroad that have nothing to do with making us more secure.

We should listen carefully to the men serving in this war."

(Note, no, he's not running, follow the link...)

[patricia92243]

1. Good post- I think Gov. Dean has said more or less the same things

[McDiggy]

2. Could you imagine how great the world would become...

Zinn/Chomsky 2008!

Ah, pipe dreams...

[silverweb]

3. Two Howards.

Both great men with great ideas.

:)

[dudeness]

4. bookmarked

thank you..

[enough]

5. kick

Says it all.

[LWolf]

6. This must be why

he has endorsed Dennis Kucinich for 2004:

"I am happy to endorse Dennis Kucinich because of all the candidates for the Democratic nomination, he is the only one with a bold, clear, principled position against the war in Iraq, against U.S. militarism, in favor of the single payer health system, in favor of using the great wealth of our country to solve the needs of the American people."

Howard Zinn

http://www.kucinich.us/endorsements/endorsements/howard-zinn.php