Draft of Kerry's Convention Speech Leaked

Draft of Kerry's Convention Speech Leaked
March 19, 2004

The following was found on a CD in Boston Commons and was later verified to have originated in the John Kerry for President campaign.

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Draft Convention Speech, Depending.

Thank you. And thank you for your fine speeches, Teddy, Nancy, Al, Howard, Dennis, Ralph. Thank you, Ralph, especially, for joining our effort to rid this nation of a tyrant. We haven't overthrown a King George in this country for a couple of centuries, and I'm thinking it's about time.

I intend to continue to campaign from this moment until every last vote is counted, but it's hard to see why I should have to. That's not bragging. I believe I have a record that allows me to plausibly promise to be a good president. But I'm running against a flagrant criminal who was never elected and should long since have been impeached.

George W. Bush began his presidency by stealing Florida's electoral votes through the elimination of Democratic voters from the rolls, through the Supreme Court's blocking of a recount, and by forcing the inclusion of overseas ballots filed too late to be legal.

Bush then went to work for Enron and Halliburton, allowing these corporations to shape legislation to the detriment of ordinary Americans. Bush launched an illegal war based on lies for the benefit of his corporate cronies. He talks about Democracy in Iraq, but what sort of Democracy is possible, and how acceptable will it be to Iraqis, when American corporations illegally control that country's oil and public services?

Bush could have focused our nation on creating new jobs in the field of renewable energy, but he's a former failed oil CEO working on behalf of other oil CEOs who can't make it on their own. He's refused to support the Kyoto climate change treaty, he's drastically increased allowable air pollution, he's turned many of our international allies against us, he's the first president since Hoover who is ending a term with fewer jobs in the country than when he began, and he's killed nearly 1,000 of our young men and women - not to mention many thousands of Iraqis - in order to boost Halliburton's profits. A Pentagon report warns of future wars as a result of global warming, and Bush looks us in the eye and tells us there's no such thing.

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http://www.davidswanson.org/columns/draft.htm

OH DIP!


haha, funny speech tho, i don't think that's very presidential tho

Who's voice was on the CD? Kerry's?

:toast:

Hey, John - THAT'S...PLAYED...OUT.

Did he just accuse Bush and the Supreme Court of of stealing the 2000 election? Did he say Bush should be impeached??

*rubbing eyes*

It's about time someone called a spade a spade!! You GO man!

For example, the bit about reducing military spending. Or the bit about calling Bush an 'unelected criminal.' And Enron? I haven't heard much about Enron from Democrats at all - and it happened over 2 years ago. It would be surprising to suddenly see the issue return to the front burner.

There are certainly some good ideas contained in the 'speech draft.' I bet few of them will find their way into the final draft of the real speech.

Certainly doesn't sound much like a convention speech. It sounds too harsh for the candidate. Too accusatory, too hyperbolic.

Mentioning *'s overthrow of Aristide, "mocking" those * executed in Texas, * "killing" our soldiers in Iraq, "stealing" the '00 election, a "criminal" who should be "impeached."

Maybe a good speech for Jesse Jackson (his speech in '00 was brilliant), but sounds too over the top for the candidate's speech, IMO.

David Swanson is a fairly well-known columnist. We publish him on truthout quite a bit. He was Kucinich's Communications Director for a while.

Meaning: This is satire.

or a certain place i will remove from my post

so here is a good place, too. Right?

;)

I kid because I loathe (not you will)

so take a walk, OK?

;)

:D

If he leaked a fake speech along the lines of this and managed to get a repuke reaction that would be dynamite. Them running around denouncing this and that, and then Kerry would come out with his level and measured speech.

So far Kerry has managed to get Rove to jump at all of his feints, if he keeps playing this way he can just sit back and wait for Rove to implode the whole res election campaign.

it's a grand speech. It would fire up the left, and probably diminish the right by causing thousands to die of apoplexy; or spontaneous combustion.