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VIDEO & FULL TEXT: TED KENNEDY Speech at the Democratic National Convention 2008

Senator Edward "Ted" Kennedy's speech at the Democratic National Convention in Denver:

August 25, 2008

Thank you. Thank you. Thank you, Caroline¹.

My fellow Democrats, my fellow Americans, it is so wonderful to be here.

And nothing -- nothing is going to keep me away from this special gathering tonight.

I have come here tonight to stand with you to change America, to restore its future, to rise to our best ideals, and to elect Barack Obama President of the United States.

As I look ahead, I am strengthened by family and friendship. So many of you have been with me in the happiest days and the hardest days. Together we have known success and seen setbacks, victory, and defeat. But we have never lost our belief that we are all called to a better country and a newer world. And I pledge to you -- I pledge to you that I will be there next January on the floor of the United States Senate when we begin the great test.

Thank you very much. Thank you. Thank you.

For me this is a season of hope -- new hope for a justice and fair prosperity for the many, and not just for the few -- new hope.

Sarah Palin Claims Her First Amendment Rights Were Violated

According to Sarah Palin, the Republican candidate for Vice President in 2008, her First Amendment rights were violated when the media claimed that Palin was engaged in negative campaigning.

If [the media] convince enough voters that that is negative campaigning, for me to call Barack Obama out on his associations, then I don't know what the future of our country would be in terms of First Amendment rights and our ability to ask questions without fear of attacks by the mainstream media.

Source: ABC News

JEFFREY HART: Both Nixon and Reagan would have agreed with Obama's speech against the Iraq War

Jeffrey Hart¹, Republican columnist for The Daily Beast, and a former speechwriter for both Reagan and Nixon, endorsed Barack Obama during the 2008 Presidential Campaign.

One thing I know is that both Nixon and Reagan would have agreed with Obama’s speech against the Iraq War… But all the organs of the conservative movement followed Bush over the cliff—as did John McCain.

¹Hart is currently professor emeritus of English at Dartmouth College, and he  wrote for the National Review for more than three decades as a senior editor.

Sarah Palin on Barack Obama: I am just so fearful....

Sarah Palin, the Republican nominee for Vice President, regarding Obama and Bill Ayers at a rally in Clearwater, Florida on October 6, 2008:

  I am just so fearful that this is not a man who sees America the way you and I see America, as the greatest force for good in the world. I'm afraid this is someone who sees America as 'imperfect enough' to work with a former domestic terrorist who had targeted his own country.

Sarah Palin, Republican, 1964-

Source: The Washington Post

Sarah Palin Chides Hillary Clinton for Whining

Sarah Palin | Republican

During an interview in August 2008, Palin expressed her views on the need to accept sexism in the media without whining [if you are a woman]. She chided Hillary Clinton as a whiner. Surreal, when you consider all the whining Sarah Palin did regarding media coverage of herself during the 2008 presidential campaign, beginning shortly after that interview. The woman is a simple joke.

She [Hillary Clinton]does herself a disservice to even mention it, really. When I hear a statement like that coming from a woman candidate with any kind of perceived whine about that excess criticism, or maybe a sharper microscope put on her, I think, 'Man, that doesn't do us any good, women in politics, or women in general, trying to progress this country.'

Related: Sarah Palin Quotations

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