Joe Klein - "didn't hear much stirring stuff come out of Dem Conv?"

[mbali]

Excuse me?

I don't know where Joe Klein was during the Democratic Convention. But I was there and I heard PLENTY of "stirring stuff:"

MONDAY: During the Vietnam War, many young men, including the current president, the vice president and me, could have gone to Vietnam and didn't. John Kerry came from a privileged background. He could have avoided going too, but instead, he said: Send me.

When they sent those swiftboats up the river in Vietnam and they told them their job was to draw hostile fire, to wave the American flag and bate the enemy to come out and fight, John Kerry said: Send me.

And then, on my watch, when it was time to heal the wounds of war and normalize relations with Vietnam and to demand an accounting of the POWs and MIAs we lost there, John Kerry said: Send me.

Then when we needed someone to push the cause of inner-city children struggling to avoid a life of crime or to bring the benefits of high technology to ordinary Americans or to clean the environment in a way that created new jobs, or to give small businesses a better chance to make it, John Kerry said: Send me.

So tonight, my friends, I ask you to join me for the next 100 days in telling John Kerry's story and promoting his ideas. Let every person in this hall and like-minded people all across our land say to him what he has always said to America: Send me.
---Bill Clinton


TUESDAY: Now even as we speak, there are those who are preparing to divide us, the spin masters, the negative ad peddlers who embrace the politics of anything goes. Well, I say to them tonight, there is not a liberal America and a conservative America — there is the United States of America. There is not a Black America and a White America and Latino America and Asian America — there’s the United States of America.

The pundits, the pundits like to slice-and-dice our country into Red States and Blue States; Red States for Republicans, Blue States for Democrats. But I’ve got news for them, too. We worship an awesome God in the Blue States, and we don’t like federal agents poking around in our libraries in the Red States. We coach Little League in the Blue States and yes, we’ve got some gay friends in the Red States. There are patriots who opposed the war in Iraq and there are patriots who supported the war in Iraq.

We are one people, all of us pledging allegiance to the stars and stripes, all of us defending the United States of America. In the end, that’s what this election is about. Do we participate in a politics of cynicism or do we participate in a politics of hope?
---Barack Obama

WEDNESDAY: As you know, we lost Ray {Charles} a few weeks ago, but I sat there that morning and listened to Ray sing {America the Beautiful} through those speakers, "Oh beautiful for spacious skies, for amber waves of grain, for purple mountains' majesty across the fruited plain."

And it occurred to me as I heard Ray singing, that Ray wasn't singing about what he knew, because Ray had been blind since he was a child. He hadn't seen many purple mountains. He hadn't seen many fruited plains. He was singing about what he believed to be.

Mr. President, we love America, not because all of us have seen the beauty all the time.

But we believed if we kept on working, if we kept on marching, if we kept on voting, if we kept on believing, we would make America beautiful for everybody.

Starting in November, let's make America beautiful again.
---Al Sharpton

THURSDAY: You see that flag up there. We call her Old Glory. The stars and stripes forever. I fought under that flag, as did so many of those people here tonight and all across our country. That flag flew from the gun turret right behind my head. It was shot through and through and tattered, but it never ceased to wave in the wind. It draped the caskets of men I served with and friends I grew up with. For us, that flag is the most powerful symbol of who we are and what we believe in. Our strength. Our diversity. Our love of country. All that makes America both great and good.

That flag doesn't belong to any president. It doesn't belong to any ideology and it doesn't belong to any party. It belongs to all the American people.
---John Kerry

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1. If joe klein said that ..then he's a tool.

And a damned liar.

They Dem Convention was so Stirring that I totally changed from a abber to a Kerry/Edwards Supporter!

So there, joe klein.. who doesn't know "stirring" when he sees it.

[SayitAintSo]

4. A little tiny tool....

I can't believe that came out of his mouth.

Whores... Whores.... They are all Whores !!!!

[Sparkly]

2. Thank you

Thank you for those salient quotes, and for reminding me of that wonderful week.

[BurtWorm]

3. What was the context of this "analysis?"

Why do "journalists" feel compelled to say such idiotic inanities?

[Cha]

5. Because they are inanely idiotic!

[mbali]

7. He was claiming the Pub convention was SO much more effective!

Because the Democrats' speeches weren't "stirring" while the Republicans (both of them) were really making points.

Of course, long after people have forgotten McCain's petty shout out to Michael Moore and Giuliani's bizarre tirade, they will still get goosebumps remembering the words spoken at the Democratic convention.

People seem to have completely forgotten 1992, when the Republicans hepped up their base but turned off the rest of the country with their nasty, hate-filled convention speeches. This looks like it's going the same way.

[BurtWorm]

8. Joe Klein has revealed what sort of bullshit stirs him up!

What a fucking sap!

[Cha]

9. Touche!

[DrFunkenstein]

6. Nicely Done

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