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May 22, 2003
George W. Bush: "All hat and no cattle"
Wish I could have seen this speech Edwards gave yesterday in Iowa, even if it was on rural America, usually not the hot topic on my list of issues. Click here to read the whole damn thing. Looks like Edwards is defining himself as the small town America candidate. Remember the song playing when he walked on stage at the DNC? "I was born in a small town...." Remember all those red states in 2000? Starting to see the picture? I really enjoyed Edwards line from the debate in South Carolina:
"Just because you speak the language of regular Americans does not mean your agenda is not the agenda of corporate America. Just because you walk around on a ranch in Texas with a big belt buckle doesn't mean you understand and stand up for rural America."
However, I think he managed to top it in his speech yesterday. Here are a few great lines:
Remember - the President's stood right here. He came here to promote his energy policy. Then he went back to Washington and cut millions for efforts like this, while fighting for billions more for the big oil industry. You know what they say about friends like these....Just because you have yourself a new ranch and wear a big belt buckle, doesn't make you a friend of rural America....
My campaign is a different Democratic campaign. Not only will I run for the real America, I will run in the real America. I will run against George Bush in the South, in the Midwest, in the small towns, in the farming and factory communities, in Robbins North Carolina, in Nevada, Iowa, and in every corner and every community of this country where real Americans don't believe their voices are being heard today in Washington, DC.
I am running for President to renew a sense of hope and opportunity and optimism throughout all America - not just a few islands of technology and prosperity and high finance.
And I am running for President so I can go toe-to-toe with George W. Bush and tell him that his policies, and the values they represent, are wrong for America
I'll tell George W. Bush that budget-busting tax cuts for millionaires are no substitute for a real economic policy; and that allowing CEOs to profiteer while their workers and shareholders suffer, offends our values.
I'll tell President Bush that an education policy long on slogans but short on support cheats our children; and that environmental policies written by and for the big polluters threaten our families and communities.
I'll tell him it's plain immoral to side with price-gouging health insurance and pharmaceutical giants over the interests of the American people.
And I'll tell George W. Bush that when it comes to speaking for rural and small-town America, he's all hat and no cattle.
If the Democratic party doesn't have enough sense to make this man their candidate, it doesn't have any business being in politics.
Posted by Mike at May 22, 2003 02:38 AM
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