Kerry Announcement Taps Into The "Uncommon Courage" of Americans

[DrFunkenstein]

MOUNT PLEASANT, S.C. - John Kerry, maintaining that "George Bush's vision does not live up to the America" the decorated war hero once defended, officially declared his candidacy for the Democratic presidential nomination Tuesday.

Using the aircraft carrier USS Yorktown as a backdrop, the Vietnam War veteran presented himself as the alternative to the Republican leader — and the Democrat with the credentials to emerge from the crowded field of nine aspirants and seize the party's nomination.

"In challenging times we need leadership that knows how to make America safer, that knows how to put America back to work," Kerry told the crowd. "The president has misled America and he has made our path more difficult as a result."

"I reject George Bush's radical new vision of a government that comforts the comfortable at the expense of ordinary Americans," Kerry said. "George Bush's vision does not live up to the America I enlisted in the Navy to defend."

"Americans have always had the extraordinary courage to do what's right for the country," said Kerry. "He (Bush) has turned it into a game for the privileged."

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=694&e=2&u=/ap/2004_kerry

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[Ilsa]

1. I'm undecided.

But I like alot of what I've heard Kerry say over the last few days.

[UnapologeticLiberal]

2. Any word on how many people were there?

None of the news articles had any estimate of the crowd. I am really curious...does anyone know? Was anyone there who could give me an estimate?

[polpilot]

5. I think there were 37 people there. No that's wrong. 39.

Dean '04...

[UnapologeticLiberal]

6. Really?

There had to have been more! Unless it was a closed event and not intended to draw a big crowd the way Dean's was...but why would they pass up the opportunity to try to draw a huge crowd?

[polpilot]

9. I really don't know.

Dean '04...

[molly]

10. It was a small area - there wasn't room for a large crowd

I believe that was intentional. Did you ever hear "size does not matter"?

[Maple]

3. The 'uncommon courage of Americans?'

As compared to.......?

[CWebster]

4. Just more of that nationalistic bravado

usually coined by the Right jingo-meisters.

[DrFunkenstein]

7. Jealous Much?

Dean could have always announced on a ski slope.

(note to all other human beings: he had it coming)

[DrFunkenstein]

8. Um, The Swedes?

I don't trust those shiftless guys.