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good evening from the fleet center in boston i'm jim lehrer i welcome you to our special pbs newshour coverage of the opening night at the democratic national convention we will be here all four nights of this convention which has as its main purpose the official nominating john kerry for president and john edwards for vice president we will broadcast the major speeches and other happenings from the floor and podium and offer analysis historical perspective and commentary when appropriate much of that will come from syndicated columnist mark shields and new york times columnist david brooks they will be here in the booth with me throughout the convention one from delaware and now for a quick rundown of what happened at the podium tonight we voted when it all on the convention floor when leading to major james or what's happening on the podium or what's happening out here among the delegates tonight al gore right away then jimmy carter outdoor course

the anguish nominee from two thousand giving her party the ex president and then finally replace hillary clinton who knew some people there with her and another couple of election cycles and her husband bill clinton who's on the schedule to speak about twenty five minutes a bestselling author that's president but what the delegates you're talking about night our healthcare and are talking about jobs and it's not the most of all about the democratic party unity over and over again everyone's got their talking points tom thanks to thank you very much larger neighbor the podium and a few moments for the singing of the national anthem by bb one ends and then to the opening speaker who will be former vice president about more of who of course is the party's presidential nominee four years ago and as this convention opens mark what do you think are the major questions about john kerry will have to be answered this week do you work in politics of immigration is very different ones who smuggle won a sense of mcpherson

it's whether that person shares their views evasion their values and it still lives people through this convention will john kerry is that what is that they don't know that they don't know they don't know what motivates john kerry i know a young man from a privileged background not unlike george herbert walker bush and unpopular war in the pacific and acted heroically and they don't know what it was it was public career at vietnam's to have to work with or to fight for the same question will a bit of that here we go to the national news he's at fb

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arizona and the report says it's easy in nineteen eighty seven they were part of a quartet siblings quartet called the won a grammy award winner and now they've gotten their solo ways then chip four years ago we gathered in los angeles and we put forward a candidate why it on earth serving way in the house of representatives why we're closely wed on matters ranging from energy

and why i am proud to call a friend we democrats put forward a man who is ready to build on the eight years of prosperity peace and progress it was known as a passionate defender of the environment well there's always been a visionary seeing developments in energy and technology and science years before anyone else and who is a wider role those know that they never had anyone in their corner no one to get their dreams of voice and who is respected throughout the world over as a statesman as a diplomat and as a fervent defender of america's interests and it is the last time this man

stood weak for our convention are party embrace them and he had to turn in ways that are ladies and gentlemen ladies and gentlemen it is my honor the act created a years now

miles over the reason bill richardson is doing the interviews and maintenance and more in nineteen ninety nine to thank you very much my friend fellow

democrat fellow americans are going to be and it would be i had hoped to be back here this week under debris are running for reelection but you know the old then you went on you lose her category but i didn't come here tonight we talk about bath after all i don't want to think that our while awake at night standing in recounting sleep i prefer to focus on the future because i know from my own experience of america as a land of opportunity where every little boy girl as a chance to grow up and win the popular vote paul i am deeply deeply grateful for the opportunity you have given me to serve my

country i wanted it was democrats or the honor of the new nominee for president four years ago and for all you know i think the american people for the privilege of serving as vice president of the united states' most of all i wanna thank my family with all my heart my children grandchildren especially my beloved partner in life and i love this country and people and one baby one of us the question that

i love this country and even though i always look to the future without the movement we're all things for just a moment as we begin this year's convention to take note of two very important lessons from four years ago every vote now in our democracy every voter has power and never forget that our yours don't let anyone take away from you or taught you in the drawing away and let's make sure that every vote is counted want to make sure that the supreme court the government and that is not the one who picks the midst of the marine corps with a lot of the other

what happens in a presidential election matters all what the outcome profoundly affect the lives of all robert ninety three million americans and people in the rest of the world to the joys of those president affects your life and your family's future and never has that been more true than in two thousand and four because let's face it our country faces the challenges these challenges we know a controller or not democratic or republican challengers they are american soldiers that we almost over come together as one nation and it is in that spirit that i sincerely ask those watching at home when it supported president bush four years ago did you really get what you expected from the candidate who voted for us our country more united today or more divided as the promise of compassionate conservatism didn't fulfill or do those

words now ring hollow for that matter or the economic policies really conservative at all for example did you expect the largest deficit in history year after year one right after another and the loss of more than a million jobs and while it's true that new jobs are being created they're just not as good as the jobs people have lost an incidentally that's been true for many do unfortunately this is no job for millions of americans and the real solutions require us to transcend partisan so that's one reason why even though we mean here as democrats we believe this is the time to reach beyond our party lines the republicans as well and i also after night although supported a third party candidate in two thousand irish you

ask yourself this question you still believe that there was no difference between the candidates politically no matter how you voted in the last election these are profound problems that all voters must take into account and when the situation in iraq regardless of your opinion at the beginning of this war isn't that now the only obvious that the way this war's been managed by the administration has gotten us in very serious trouble wouldn't we be better off with the new roads the reduced to our allies as ad

is in cooperation with other nations crucial to solving our dilemma interact isn't it also credible to defeating the terrorists we have to be crystal clear about the threat we face from terrorism is dead like it is real it is imminent but in order to protect our people shouldn't we focus on the real source of this threat a group that attacked us and it's trying to allocate a bit about some of them a lot when we be safer with the long confusing al qaeda with a rat too much of your attention away from the festival of dangerous i would say to all americans is the evening at whether it's the threat to the global environment or the erosion of america's leadership in the world whether it is a challenge to our economy from new

competitors are the challenges to our security from new enemies i believe we need new leadership that is both strong and wise and we can have new leadership one of our greatest strength of the democracy even when we're headed in the wrong direction we can direct our courts when policies are clearly not working we the people can change them if our leaders make mistakes we can hold them accountable even if they never admit their most that it's by firmly believe america needs new leadership that will make us stronger at home and respected in the world and we're here this week to present to the nation the man who should be and will be our new president john kerry oh john and i were like of the

united states senate on the same day twenty years ago when i worked closely with him for all the time so i would say a personal word about john kerry the man he is a friend and stand by his word is his bar he has a deep patriotism that goes far beyond words he has devoted his life to making america a better place for all of us on the battlefield in vietnam i watched in show that same courage on the senate floor for example he got the best record of protecting the environment against polluters of any of my colleagues barked she never shied away from a fight no matter how powerful the floor he was never afraid to take on difficult and thankless issues that few others wanted to touch like exposing the threat of voter narco terrorism in tracing the sources of terrorist financing it was one of the very first in our party to take on the issue of

drastic deficit reduction and he's developed a top and thoughtful plan to restore our economic strength and fiscal discipline to put it simply those of us who have worked with john know that he has the courage integrity and leadership to be a truly great president of the united states of america and he showed was stunned in his very first decision of the leader of our party when he picked as his running mate an inspiring writer for middle class families and families struggling to reach the middle class john edwards of north carolina john kerry and john irving are fighting for us and for all americans are either we nominate them here in boston and return back to our home states across this land we have to fight for there todd your friends and they would go to john kerry dot com raising money register

voters going into the all volunteer your time and above all to make your vote count for those who felt disappointed or angry with the outcome in two thousand i want you to remember all of those feelings but then i want to do with them what i have not focus them fully and completely on putting john kerry and john edwards in the white house in two thousand and four so we can have a new direction in america a new president and new vice president new policy a new day a brighter future with this country and what our people deserve fellow democrats

when i look out and see so many friends who have meant so much to me and my own public service mark moore is full tonight i thank you for all the love you've shown good tipper inmate you will forever be an arts and there's someone else i'd like to play and that's a man who asked me to join him on that as i will never forget that convention for that campaign the way we warn storm north country during a message of hope and they will even with our walmarts that america could be made new again and so it was and with europe and with the leadership of the john kerry and john edwards so it shall be again

former vice president nominee of this democratic party for years ago he did win the popular vote and in their eeg mr hughes there's a river here with me he did it again did they really get in everyone the same sentence the way out reprogram setback in his life to this is say you know television and you're sure that this tiny village in the windy city is littered

with needlessly hurtful if you think that's a very funny way the second thing is how remarkable this isn't i spent the past two years in the bush administration and thorson how are they going up and down the country giving quite passionate someone say shrill attacks on the bush administration is very different this was a reaching out across party lines to talk to the people who voted for george bush people voted for ralph nader is it may be to think about you know there's this theory that this is a base election debates and that's not a bass notes of reaching out speech moderate speech was the first public hearing in the political lexicon two thousand and six

that it was the government that was at least the simple things he used agree with david on that made a pitch and the way we sort of it was as a tactic that supporters say look don't really not disparaging you were just asking you to ask yourself these questions whether the next supreme court pick the next president of this president pick the next supreme court that it would he would he was a little testimonial of john kerry on any use words like his words is a lot that day it never shied away from a fight about how culpable for the same coverage of the floor of the senate that you demonstrated on the battlefield in vietnam john edwards is that your point

why he did a recaps the instead of a kind of hard nosed attack decided to give the overbearing through massive fiscal dr people i think the novelist ian angry party you know al gore's campaign manager bob shrum and they give his campaign speech people versus the powerful that was the reason for the john kerry campaign is also run by very different strategy now much less angry populism there are wildlife survey was over it's over a party strong party responsible party and we're still in the first suspect during the idea oh i think i do agree that it is the face of the party together i've never seen before was taken an hour before the session ended this is a way of her class photo of seventy three

in a very very quiet they'll have forward on the internet everybody serves the needs of the eyes of the year they're good quickly david the question i asked amar didn't have time to do that at the very beginning when you think of the of the major unanswered questions about their interest to show that the virtues he possesses of her emotional volatility let's not carry is not it makes emotional bombs he just has a little stiff maybe once maybe you need acidity in the office so i would say they'll be a phony don't try to do what these of sustainable wants to prevent another is boring let's move on here for a volunteer ray suarez years of historical perspective on by former vice president gore and this engine we get that longer view from

three historians who will also be with us throughout the evening presidential historian michael beschloss and richard norton smith join them tonight is alan fitzpatrick professor of american history at the university of new hampshire it's literally start with you is there a precedent for the vanquished party's nominee in the previous election to get primetime on the opening night of the convention such pride of place in a convention when we don't send a talented and eighty eight i think it's probably the closest historical parallel was in nineteen sixty four when richard nixon or vice president narrowly defeated in nineteen sixty six of his supporters thought he was robbed of the presidency he came out at the beginning of the convention but in some ways the most critical moment of the convention which is a party that is fractured options are running a twenty five percent oppose with a badly sperm candidate and it's a job that even with very don't want to reject people

have thought he's sometimes been known a little a little harsh in any given pride of place to their previous warriors the previous nominees they almost always are about war it was lost by ten points last last time he would not be there and he was there are two reasons one was a lot of people i'm not yours to us about the two thousand election is trying to take that on john kerry's to have everyone as possible so let's get together again and they are going back to nineteen ninety two the typical very successful had a terrific attention but this week it

is very much better after the ceremony surrounding the convention and that combination of davidson's success can conventions been occasions for memorable speeches yes there are some of them given by the candidates themselves though less often does that he's one of the most memorable was roosevelt's promising a new deal with american people in nineteen thirty two and the origins of the whole concept of what would follow were introduced that rarely happens at the convention are what we see tonight from now or is a good time to get out the vote for obvious reasons and so you would use standing here perhaps running for re election rather than trying to mobilize the democratic party and so in that instance we've seen many times in the past was kind of rallying cry that goes up ted kennedy has done and many occasions and bob mario cuomo as well give unlimited speech for the mondale ferraro ticket when

he took on the whole reagan's vision of the city on the hill and talk about the realities in american cities the poverty appeal link to the party's base and that has been a very important function for convention speakers all along the century richard is there a difference in the way of republicans handled the previous nominees <unk> consider question i'd like to get back in nineteen seventy six when this extraordinary moment when all right aaron he was asked to come down to the podium and say a few words for the managers to do that and in fact turned out to be his declaration and it gave me it gave an extraordinary speech is never let your fourth and he was offered up tonight this is a

hand in a time i think in moments like back in nineteen twelve when we jennings bryan three time nominee for the party finally i end the town after woodrow wilson the next generation of liberal progressive this was a historic moment jim back to you with miami dade county democratic party and now the united states are still angry about that it's a name does that mean that this invention is anti bush rick perry

and what he needed and we're going to talk about what happens now as we wind our job and not a laughing matter so what happens now between now and the end of this election year to insure that would keep your weapon doesn't happen again the changes that i think makes sure that nothing in the world that is not going in europe we're going to return now

to the business of the convention itself on the floor and the podium where the democrats are in the process of honoring the nine democratic women serving in the united states senate jesse to fill those interviews with glenn close and now the nine senators will be introduced and then we'll hear from senator barbara mikulski of maryland senior woman democratic senator and there's dianne feinstein of california very murray of washington state louisiana so we're going to be

speaking later to introduce the president later denied manson he calls he began her public life as the social worker involved more reflective of reflective office with the city council in nineteen seventy one the economy is the head of the women's caucus democratic caucus in the senate races i want to be here tonight and i'm honored here to be here speaking on behalf of the senate democratic women out of my colleagues everyone has a personal story of courage and it gets you know betting on american history

since nineteen seventy six to nineteen ninety nine nineteen eighty six only fifteen women have served in the united states senate and wind sir only one day right now it's not about it's

about an agenda rape a way that the social program has a job with good pay and health insurance and art teachers was not our isi and the best trained and the best value teachers want a safety net for seniors on the market that means no more nine eleven is now are going to war one fancy headbands to hang out on friday night at last america stronger and safer when we work together and when we stand alone in this and a lot of gratitude and the women who

came before i can unveil an unerring nose and want risotto justice like eleanor roosevelt and barbara jordan de juarez where today generations of women every generation change the way our obligation to create more opportunity for families to work together to build a safer stronger america every day he was lying it's a time of sorrow and opportunity

and discovery is and justice here at home and abroad that i made the women in the senate are women in the democratic party or labor women everywhere are determined in that john kerry are next the plane americans through divorce in your family to go to college the first to get involved in politics now together will open doors

for the next generation of arusha and hair the pain the pittsburgh is bo's intervals these big you know her colleague women colleague or democratic senators they're in line altogether

she is the junior senator from the maryland but she's the senior woman senator in the senate of the united states coming up next for activists coral andrew carter to mark the continued absence of really over at the bush that she continues to jim barrett the kerry campaign strategy liked and that's why they voted they persuaded both campaigns talk about a group of voters about one fourth one will call the persuadable is not simply just undecided but their commitment so it's not it's not intense leading candidate among the persuadable is that most of the negative and that most of you don't have to hide that they don't know john kerry and then they'd obviously made the decision that this is about john kerry didn't fill in the blanks of john kerry that was all the notes that people have

about john kerry what kind of a president being a candidate so let's just say the other guys in somewhat more positive they don't like his politics they don't like the idea that effort that they don't like politicians going at each other and they sent a subtle way to appeal to them in for a non political way off at neighboring way i don't think it will do you find interesting remarkable or anything in between john kerry and his folks can maintain this kind of discipline over these diverse been very outspoken very good job their professional disciplined campaign you know they've got a party that is roiling after

people heard over there saying sort of outlandish things about michael moore over here they've got a whole it's the best sellers they cannot be that they cannot be angry coast really pushed party because that doesn't work while the wisconsin michigan and there they are pretty disciplined group and they think this more history now that race for us professor ellen fitzpatrick and i guess so when you look at those sepia photographs professor fitz fitzpatrick and smoke filled rooms there were very many women there and this was quite a departure from it is quite a departure but think about the fact that the nineteenth amendment giving women the vote was ratified in nineteen twenty four at four years away from that and we are celebrating nine when a new democratic senators in the senate it is a remarkable achievement these were hard won victories but there's a long way to a gallon so there's a double message here from these women senators we made some strides were here we are no longer just tokens but women

still have much work to do in getting say in american electoral politics which is it something that a long time to accomplish are we talking about a decades long process or whether we will support that i think that the face of advances accelerating dramatically from forty years ago nineteen sixty four margaret chase smith republican senator from maine that was sad rather patronizing way through the obama did agree on was a bad job and desist letters to tell herself someone asked her what would you do if you woke up and the president's been on inauguration day has had to apologize to mrs johnson was until nineteen seventies things were moving dramatically said betty's husband for president gerald ford in nineteen seventy six president will get serious consideration to put a woman in armstrong's on the ticket and the base i think is an accelerated since then barbara mikulski made that point michael about being elected in her own right when she talks you see sometimes that serve

as state senator republican pennsylvania this is a very serious about accepting the republican senators and muriel completely year the wife of the late president and more recently jeanne monahan says that the first years syria's president was in the city spinning history is like that there are constantly on the other hand stayed on to when senators from the largest slave a smattering from southern states where the democrats are fighting to get back

a class of people who were taken seriously senators three democrats many people live in managerial skills as well for now this is something that happened because the fund was fined forty rules were changed to make sure they're women on the national committees in each committee man had a partner committee women and women in congressional district there was this really organic some concerted effort

so since the seventies most influential period the seats and i think that right now it's getting harder time here at night one the democratic national convention of the afl about jimmy carter and then he will be introduced by de mexico governor bill richardson who's the convention chairman and the former wife of the former brothel and address the convention and then shortly after that if i come up here to our box set not and talk to us for a few minutes after his speech but it begins here in a few moments set jimmy carter has not always been

welcomed all with open arms the democratic convention since he left the white house says mr mike now he has unchecked this victory has the fragrance also nixon was defeated jimmy carter i left them in nineteen eighty something the democrats wanted most of it is to find my way in and there's a forty four the fifty states in the process and lead democrats really have not been treated well his post presidency and the rehabilitation post presidency they always say that about well it's been obviously to be the first one so that probably the only president that was going after a failed military service soda versus looking to see if the discipline on the bush years when the former president carter because he has been in his quiet way

streaming critical of the bush policy toward iraqi human rights and terrorism and all the support and forceful bombastic rhetoric that says this is a bush promises that would like to be we've got to give that speech how much power do these speeches they say they're not censoring that ended because democrats don't censor said that was then there are empty boast that they have been very mindful of words that are going to be incendiary and not push forward the kerry strategy which is reaching out to fill in the blanks about

him reaching out to those voters remain undecided reservations disaffected republicans there's been all this talk over the decades the parties have been presented to our savior c only it's not the same kind of party structure that used to be but they're sort of impose media structure because the message has to be so relentless rules consistency this really needs to just repeat the talking points for them and we've seen that on the republican side and a lot of people expected john mccain to continue to go and always be slightly altered message when it comes to interest of the worst as he has gone way on the message now than anybody's looking for daylight right now i don't find that artificial or tens of millions of people in each of these parties not enough to say they disagree and so what we say is deposited to rehabilitation democratic aspirations

and that that would be part of a political rehabilitation city the public because he was never considered a very weak very much of a party el partido party animal a party he ran against washington davis he was the outsider you know one term governor george post watergate against the political status quo against the democratic party leadership very much against all his opponents are reading washington post is people probably very nervous reticent to themselves and not the voice their true passions so i understand the strategy voters and i wonder still destruction stretching not been good for democratic party will not be forty two percent party going to be a little more potential and i suspect that jimmy carter in now laurel people here

understand as the law official was on one of the team for a quick question to richard norton smith richard are you there or what about this discipline of speeches at a convention by the nominee so that you know about now that their choir convention in nineteen seventy six you had recently had a portable republican in the white house you have a democratic nominee who don't advance of the contagion that gave the party leaders the water has gone in which to refine your means and the week's convention are down to the speeches that you are probably not and that's one of the biggest bounces coming out of the convention and he wants according to developers so it's an enormous advantage that you know us intelligence one interesting things is the edges of this convention have the luxury of it

on that for a paradox that people get so intense about their desire to win has to replace this president that they are willing to suppress some of their passion perhaps an otherwise and i think that extends to the speakers on the podium as well as the other thing is that the deep fissures within the party very partisan democrat walter mondale part of the deep social fissures within the party i say they like lately or less liberal principle primary season so you're not even taught not just until he treats through it but you know the christians when mondale was nominated argo the speeches that everybody remembers war quarterly remember one line of news about president reagan raised taxes they i will and it's right but it's almost beat everybody a

message and jesse jackson something clearly we're not vetted by mondo can't stand for its emphasis on prevention after jesse jackson is a very very articulate and all of that the senate this week essentially saying probably begin in the modern era nineteen seventy two miami beach convention and richard nixon waged right down to the thirty seconds that was of the syllables all that foley had been breakthroughs in preschool and i mean that you know that we have the example of the successful they are a reminder of why vision of america's future that we democrats have a vision for

our people a vision of a secure nation a just society in a peaceful world a strong america compean and proud and united as president he worked to make that vision a reality jimmy carter awakened america to the need for energy independence launching a comprehensive program to reduce our dependency on foreign oil renewable energy to energy board which years later i had the honor to lead the broad competition and lower prices the energy to transportation to communications to finance if you all to hear this weekend on a low cost airline you happy i am that day

the champion the cause of human rights around the world realizing the beacon of american liberty and democracy that for generations has inspired people the world over and he healed the wounds of vietnam and watergate america is as its people since president carter left office is never falter in his mission in many ways working even harder and lifting up the poor reconciling enemies and promoting democracy and human rights around the world really is apt words two years ago jimmy carter was awarded the nobel peace prize no democrats his

life as an ally of service is like this band ally a major didn't let us now learn more a great american a great president jimmy carter and nuisances and rosen's moon than he used to as bell and

so very few eight months we've all gotten used to seeing pictures are really confident with the full story was the one hundred fifteen countries he's visited and hunger disease spread because a piece of the millions in africa who are living their lives thanks to his work of the more than twenty elections this album on democracies taking root thanks in part to his family in northern border more people in more places

than any other than to work with the government now he's more

in nineteen ninety six at the two thousands in the audience city says firstly is beaming it's been it's

been what is it everything i can to put john kerry and the white house with john edwards like that was signed in twenty eight years ago i was and i said then i'll a double that good as honest as decent and it's not as compassionate at all the american people i say this again tonight and that's exactly what we will have

next january with john kerry as many of you may know not personally career with the united states may press over the summer you know at that time my shipmates and i were ready for combat i prepared to give our life depend on nation of france at the same time we always pray that i read in this would preserve the peace i served on the team president harry truman and why doesn't know many representing different political party or the home of things that active military responsibilities with on as

they knew the horrors of war and later as the man isn't he a certain restraint and judgment and then upstairs sense of mission we'll uncover the other comments about leaders of military and civilian would not put us soldiers and sailors in harm's way by initiating was insurance unless america's vital interests were in danger we also we feel that these murders would not ms lida lee is usable and national security today that they are when they won one to volunteer for

military service they lose big he also knows the horrors of war and the responsibilities of that here and i am confident that next year if you restore the judgment and maturity through our government that nowadays is sorely lacking it's blue john kerry my family and therefore have the victory in november the pain as youre on our quantitative many challenges that call involving in a good taxation in common education and health the ladies

challenges we knew that isn't what it was last year that shaped by working americans instead of the civil rights and on it alignment and want to make john kerry president is even more important is to safeguard the security of a nation today and a level of talent the greatness of america and there's like there's a political basic human right it's brutal is a foundational only hear about them in the business

and we'll let increasingly isolated and will american apparel it is therefore sacred problem with will present and the people and that's the whole republican began the week after nine eleven america stood trial will be determined and united a cowardly attack on innocent civilians are unprecedented level of cooperation and understanding around the world within just thirty four months we're watching the concern at all this goodwill as this one bob quarterly unbroken citizen of space and this totally at

random and then isolate the united states from the arab nations we joined us in combating terror let us not forget that the soviets lost the cold war though the american people and bond indexes out to talk with your parents debated whether baseball sustain a bipartisan support we understood the link between a defensive own freedom and a promotion of human on a recent pulse at fault of nature it's reputation as a world war to bar mark fenton

of freedom in just a few months of the frame of the eye united states invaded it is on this native france and inadvertently read a part of the proper planning confused and disturbing strategy a preemptive war without that were listening and the men leave the royal week jon cleary through the life of the global war against terror in the nation the middle east peace process as tom delay's reaching hall well first that it is or became a nation owe democratic counterpart have attempted to secure copyright ap

and justice for the palestinians a quarter century ago uno and arrow instead the region increase in this anti american passions this much change the pill a threat far more real and immediate than any posed by saddam hussein at that allow advanced country with potentially ominous consequences for peace and stability in northeast asia these are some of the prices are going to stay with his radical reporter on basic american president and that that last mile by john kerry and

interview deity extremism we need to recommit ourselves to a few common sense principle that should transcend partisan differences first we got out and had her own security it replays in jeopardy what is most precious jewel name of this anthology of women on innovative and in fact we cannot maintain our historic self confidence of the people if we generate probably twenty thirty recap they arrived at a solution to it all right we cannot be true for ourselves if we

missed three other and finally in a world of our weekend of the evolving his mystery it's b they claim to be a peace further than that depending on the latest political run on national security or us military action john kerry has already proven and b again that he will not hesitate to act and as a fruit vendor of our national security john kerry was right for the

global alliance against terrorism while avoiding unnecessary wars the basic issue of marco little bubble believers your best brings on the unity and integrity other american league all while the extremist documents the manipulation of the truth will define america's role in the world at stake is nothing less than a nation's soul it's been a boom will god willing a

half and in many ways the last few months have been some of the most disturbing for what i am not the spirit i really am no i do not just for our country i never get ugly tonight as always but the essential decency of the american people and so i say d and so i say to you and to others around the world of you with just world war who do not underestimate americans never stray moments there's a road that is so bright and hopeful future what america needs is leadership our job our

job is to ensure but the leaders of this will be john kerry and john edwards ad of the year and the truth is that the point most recent surveys reveal that cost as they say they're describing is bipartisan as it did that would not say this and also say this isn't left or thought about ideology of islamic extremism that is the number

one enemy i was oblivious to mention talk about the foreign policy speech without talking about islamic extremism well he's dismissing the pope it is the word extremism for the bush administration the senator has run was the last national greatness of several of the america's biggest problems that other people want to listen or i just i think that john kerry has both been very spontaneous that that's recently as sunday so i have said that we can't just isolate those those islamic clerics who preach at night and not let them isolate us and i think that was the i think that was the idea that was a testimonial to carry the name jerry leader strength of very experienced very well yes it was a strong statement and one directed by without ever mentioning that was bashing it was about

bush certainly are mentioning his name it was a pretty big criticisms of his policies and the isolation think most americans to feel my own experience my own reporting eventually us a sense of one of the great concerns of some politicians judges that americans across the sense of isolation of all the numbers in this year the only thing that it would you would you think david about the of the bashing or army it really touched me about in some sense you know he's decided he was a sort of pause critics president's policies and now that this was always going to the site to go back in but this is a harsh partisan speech without still are far says it's driven by principal you know i don't think george bush the older wooden given a

speech like this and i wake up the democratic candidate has made that call jimmy carter said to re enter the partisanship song forties when sampled in a massachusetts delegate he served in both the iraqi and afghanistan and things that's right so that's right you know my view of them paul kennedy the delegate of massachusetts and i was curious what you thought as a better at all jimmy carter speaks of the jimmy carter were eligible for immigrants but he very clearly and john kerry in leadership and responsibility and commitment one of the lines that stuck in my mind is john kerry would call showed up and i think that it made more than john kerry service and questions about george bush's service i think it spoke to the fact that john kerry showed up every

fiber of his being that he showed up confidence that he showed up comedian who showed up with a vision and then john kerry is the kind of leader it's not afraid to change direction when circumstances change you have heard so many years ago i suppose and also weather that what he has is more about the series at the states that said let's in our encounters about whether you're basically selling their own eyes i think the winner nobel prize winners and about the way america's fought over her art was very powerful i know i for one wanna be a front of america as i am of americans very very proud of the men and women with meister when there are still more than a hundred thousand of them in harm's way right now each and every one of them is making us proud they are great america but america

is losing some of its luster and then i want to be proud of america as i am of americans and i think john kerry should restore that pride i think but george bush has lost his way and he took that that worry over losing our western massachusetts presidential candidate thank you glenn and now let's go back now to race war as an art historians still with us i'm michael beschloss richard norton smith i'm professor ellen fitzpatrick michaels a while since foreign affairs defense related issues and america's place in the world have played such a big party for her has really bought in nineteen eighty eight and maybe even before the nineteen eighty four because of my nineteen eighty eight the war was beginning to come to announce a runaway really returning full circle and that summit was on jimmy carter's speech because here is tonight because he's was here tonight because of popular and

honored next president but the two things he said and i'm really from his nineteen seventy six a number one i want to trust your government again residents who should live eu that comes right out of his bible in nineteen seventy six and the other one was in nineteen seventy six he made the point i served on a nucleus of rave on different from other democrats of new voters with you or too soft he said the same thing about john kerry to light this is someone i went to vietnam volunteered and that means we trust him on national security president recognizes campaigning as we heard in president carter's speech but again as an issue personal military service is part of a candidate's resume he mentioned serving under truman and eisenhower to presidents who were in utero i think the subliminal message here and in fact the explicit message was that only a warrior truly appreciates the imperatives of things and then having confronted what we're really is about as he did

as president eisenhower did as john kerry did as men wore the uniform and went into battle and saw action they have a deeper understanding of the more secure and across a really extraordinary thing about this speech i think was that he was saying tonight when ronald reagan said when he ran against quarter that is we need to restore america to greatness how hadn't lost greatness when carter way he attacked in the audit his reelection campaign because of the iranian hostage crisis that now having seen the americans attacked on our own soil and an ongoing war in iraqi makes everything look quite different it was an albatross around jimmy carter snack and in retrospect it's worth it the subsequent events you know actually the last time jimmy carter spoke with

democratic convention was in nineteen ninety two and he came with some harsh words of criticism for another president bush about another neuron that was a very shrewd about the use of jimmy carter and it was counterintuitive if you think of the last quarter century president carter as has gained a special status among the american people because he's perceived as non political and whatever you think of his various diplomatic efforts in particular everyone of buyers is a fight against disease is an absence of conflict resolution the point being this gives him a special stature that transcends other former presidents tonight he used that and it's kind of the frosting on the cake he can say things in effect to get away with them because it was brash and bought the benefits from that special status that hurts while placing such emphasis on serving in the

military before serving as president and that it's the kitchen nightmares for the next speaker's plan that would be bill clinton someone who did not serve so it's pretty fast and see how he deals with lavish thanks also to thank you very much renee and joining us now is former president herbert for making speeches wrote and welcome them so as well things are risky well those extraordinary hours on compressed the time and so the last thing going on so formal on a politician who had been around for a lot of very colorful did you were you carry any kind of annoyance with yoko because you're not here in it security and yet you're so yeah i mean it on it to happen to a lot of the conventional under section this was always

i think it's yours well they'll just because i think that what i said maybe one store her mother constantly worried about her life i would say that devastating blow to imagine what that has always been one of america's purchase when the us goal and the trust and admiration that was the second of his and he writes the siskel and i would see that in any way very clear that you think the reason it's not is it also correct frequently use the word

extremism shia extremists in relationship to what he has done for a four times is that message do you understand this is where i think if you look at the history of what has happened in the western anti competitive you see a radical departure from the eu and woe for formal front in france or on the latest at this moment having that will leave a lot of the latest and i think this is where they are attacked from the most respected human rights organization and appeal of those human rights organizations over

the narration and so and they all they have in maintaining the basic they do the same what is

it all right and that was a very serious problem when he said later that the prisoners and no on time of day even the pope would all fraught with to have and yet the company builds roads but someday they are put on trial and found innocent they still may not be released those are the kind of statement that sent chills around the world last year we had a congregation of

human rights defenders sponsored by me and the un high commission of human rights who have lives are extraordinarily light it in the last two years it's also pressing regimes why don't support the us go about writing the human rights heroes as tariffs and this is the kind of thing that has also a live video complete faith that president bush and his advisers feel that went well i think that a lot of people saw what they should have done to the thing which you can survive on the war against serbs and so and now i think they are going into afghanistan was a well all considered decision be supportive that it's a port city and i thought we should have stayed there and make sure that the victory was too late and that democracy would follow now a nuisance at the warlords and re

taken off you know the country's control and that they are so called elections coming up call we contemplated obsession gotten the commitment i think it was labeled for president which would've office to attack iraq and so we don't mind them terrorists concentration and concentrate on the right and in the process we lost the home lunches and chick lit in las vegas almost unanimous support around the world while all the conservation when you that's a very serious charge lately the war with iran i think that i think that you think it's all a statement admitting that image of pronouns are and what i say i think we

can do you believe that if the united states had used the same quality and the force of resources against afghanistan and against that tide and and not gone into a racket we could have obliterated be the so called islamic extremist threat the people in them i wouldn't say liberated i think it would've wasn't an athlete when we were aroused a lot of unnecessary stress too authentic bye bye we have alienated those potential avid supporters of partners and allies in the global war against terrorism is another thing that i think the reporters what i miss about the middle east and you know this this all whether we like it or not the armed conflict between islam and its neighbors is like cancer rates and a lot of it is a world of many poor if you missed it in the world and this is the first top administration said to monitor the nation hasn't

pursued after seven months of layoffs simultaneous and just as the ball this is weekend edition well the president's going to have to deal with well i wrote about this that roadmap is i think it's something you believe there is a connection between problems in the middle east then and the terrorism and anti americanism we have to do to throw any of our country a little touching i just got back from indonesia for instance which is all the largest much and it isn't very successful democratic election for a second five years ago before the senate

was they are monitoring the forest to make money this time it's not to help but they move from an indirect election this time to have direct election but this is a country that saw his first direct elections the front of it is a lot of that eighty seven percent of the people and you know one of the premises you here in america is a thought of islam and democracy in this country that has gone almost miraculously from a totalitarian dictatorship with a strong message on those trucks over fifty three years to accomplish democracy and and i was so the people of kosovo and i'm all over indonesia during the selection took place in july know throw snowballs anything this front of america's government is completely fragile human factors like that population say are saudi arabia jordan egypt if you look

at the forefront of the pew foundation we find less than ten percent of the people who know that with admiration for india act between the time you finish your speech sometimes you got up here and we we were analyzing your speech and david david brooks made that made the point that he was disappointed that i'm paraphrasing of get togethers the abuse disappointed specifically that he did not condemn islamic terrorism as a threat to the united states in the united states that i i i mitch mcconnell other strains of hiv and i was i wonder what the democrats ran against that i think in a democratic strategist jasmine is to them that is true

and germany and russia and countries all over the world that there is terrorism with the united states wading it with open arms or people are sharing and the responsibilities and benefit when they're successful this global with them and alienated them away last fall prey on an uncontrollable desire to go to war against iran and they are out there is no interim government by allowing seems to have some legitimate if they do successfully move treason for elections early next year when you grant that this would be historic and major accomplishment i think it's so they can get about an nsa government is really given song on the phone and start almost say autonomy means it right i

will be very grateful yet at the same time not always sharing some political mr rummel of a lot of our direct its intact that the difficult changes you know that is a limited authority politically speaking without political authority on ebay combined with economic share with the rest of the world and i think to some degree military strategy although i think the united states should reclaim the primary responsibility for all our security because before you arrived there the story on that video only a warrior appreciate the preciousness of fragility of prince harry truman eisenhower at describing him as some quality of the military services showed up on a side of beauty and served on

a stage you know with the horrors of war and responsibilities of british you say now that that recommendation white voters were undecided voter john kerry to replace george w bush i think it's important that the voters realize what john kerry has talked about you know as i mentioned john kerry's are recruited to go and vote deliberately and it has a live at the writers have it now you know to defend their nation's consulate there to renew the volunteers and i saw a flash little white house of what i think that having an experience that will all have about what position for that would be a very great guitar which i considered a real iraqi what do

you know what i don't think it is possible that it is quite as know we're going to work is to write without a phalanx op op op ed of our allies including the major allies and unworkable for the president thank you very much for the forthcoming for stopping by and it says both cases and has taken short break now we'll be back with our live coverage of the two thousand four democratic convention and just the moment is sufficient h auer says this is asking questions

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can when you remove the height of the status of a ring of line with what you have is the most important news of the day good at a non gmo iraq on the newshour tonight the newshour with jim lehrer week nights only on pbs are ms bell and we are back with the democrats in boston we'll be hearing sound from hillary and bill plot but first let's go to margaret

warner congressman california margaret is a senior member on the house international relations committee and he supported the iraq war are only officers and she was an outspoken critic of the us military action in iraq from what you make each piece is a wonderful lamb and i agreed with much of what he's said like this issue of war of choice i'm not sure what that means there is a warrior its war against radical islamic jihad as they've attacked because they have attacked our friends and allies we are enemies of free people everywhere and then it's not a traditional kind of or it's a different kind of i believe that john kerry and john kerry intends to do in this administration

has talked about the fact that one thing that they've talked about multilateral now he was tougher i would say again former vice president or president bush over the iraq war were you at all disappointed in that war speech if it wasn't on a fiery interacting guess what i'm really asking as democrats who are family get stronger which town should should carry us army senator kerry to take the town with winds against a rod actually i often

resolution said sort of what united nations continue with inspections process that we do not need to go toward that residents in the same day is that the question of ancient history lesson but i think their dollars are certainly many democrats voted against the rest of the war and i think that senator kerry will leave the country that decision is american national security issues john kerry

seems to do a better job because you know the americans and with style that this administration about this particular effort and it means more people can understand what needs to be done this is that persuasive to me jim carrey might have very similar policies pursued it differently as a progressive very little bit that i think that senator kerry wants to bring together buyers he understands that our country is not in the best possible position and senator kerry has said over and over again that he believes need to the world community and not multilateral like without the world through a different set of the president in his speech at basically get accused president bush of

that tactic carried shooting league that president did mislead the country and misled the world in waging war a war that was not needed anymore senator kerry and the people in our country do not want war and they'd like to see take that same town i think senator kerry wants to make sure their families in america have received the economic security that they deserve and wants to ensure that america needs a non existent connection between the senate also ties between cronkite and some mass destruction as something

that turned out not to be the issue now is how do we turn iraq into the markets to provide security make that transformation that hopefully can be a beacon for the rest of that world for carrion regimes and dictatorship and thereby clean the swamp and then combat the radical islam says david brooks what is dealing with its to deal with the homeland security issue in a more sensible way in this administration is ritually which in certain areas is moving ahead and is ignoring the other problems tremendously and i believe john kerry will point that out is rebuilding alliance is based on common interests and common values that has been torn to shreds by by virtue of some of doctrinal aspects of the bush policy that

so offended people in attendance at american fashion report demonstrated in and say that the first is we need more funding for our rail systems and so we have a lot to do with senator kerry will put the appropriate funding announcement remembering hurt president carter say that in his trips to always look at the polls the slavic countries that have been considered america's allies the public is just because we're trying to jam were i mean deeply mistrust the united states will be a lot to restore the notion that when we talk about more democracy in that part of that part of the world that the people who i believe you're in for a role in their own government for political space for for decent education and economic future to find republicans who are saying it makes it very difficult to present

carrie twenty years of experience international relations committee and the man who can speak to the larger war can put together the alliance is based on an american agenda that the rest of the world free comes to agreement i just think it's a matter of effectiveness commitment to diplomacy a willingness to use force if necessary he'll do a better more effectively i i i just have no doubt that at this particular point the bush administration's ability to do what they want to do so impeded by their past mistakes back to where we started which was you know your guess lay reader recipe wing of your party what do you say to democrats who might be tempted to defect for ralph nader on this issue and on the whole thing but we do polling for the troops or not senator kerry spent many democrats would like and

what would you say that i think first of all those elections to bolster country the world cannot take another four years of the bush administration the supreme court and the supreme court in the image of george was a woman's right to choose their religion and education to be in the realm of action emanates we're not overt minstrel show for those who want to do that and the fact the fact that progressive groups are realizing that as shown by the fact that ralph nader as republican party apparatchiks to get himself qualified as a progressive agenda because the country cannot afford to pay for getting a

quarterback too mark shields and david brooks david where do you stand now as far as getting an answer to the question of what the democrats would do about islamic extremism and a little whereas terrorists are lots of extremism were facing a world their wannabe theology at odds and that recently a whole series of seven or eight hundred steps they talked about it a lot it's a little harshly that this is a noble series of concrete steps and i expect that unexpected all tonight but i wanna know i think a lot of older ones the democratic strategy getting the french like this war that's not going to be a lead in that i think you know there was that there was something wrong but that doesn't deny the fact that since his presidency up until the day we have this problem

which i think is one long war against this river at all and that's a pitch and you got to go into the middle east and somehow change that i happen to think that if there's an iraq democracy that's a huge historic step in that direction and so i just want to know what democrats think about that what though from one to three fourths the planet's you agree with her on the connection between what's going on in the middle east and also to you reckon i agree that inflames this situation ending up with al qaeda with staff think islamic jihad i think it's a growing list that these people are facing a war to restore the caliphate i think it's something that they think in terms of centuries and so it would help an awful lot of presidents carter didn't go on that's another that it would not solve the base on the on the jimmy carter martin taking what he said in the speech and then taking what he said to us what you think is missing i think jimmy carter made a very compelling point which

has not been verified that is the united states that i cannot wait any war against the housing health as we are isolated there's no question we and what isolated in the world we're less respected you cannot question about what that other presidents have done when herbert walker bush certainly was so courageous in dealing with the intent to be an intractable situation between the palestinians and israelis bill clinton president carter made enormous they've been in this situation at the kerry and george w bush to the point where it becomes a rally was that the recruitment push among muslims and arabs in the arab world that the united states is on the on the wrong side the anti states is unsympathetic to the aspirations of the palestinian people and at that point he made about democracy in indonesia is it is a telling point without any bombs without any hundred fifty thousand american troops that that was that is not minimizing the threat that you describe are of the threat that

is posed by extremist you it becomes a lot easier to isolate the jimmy carter's final analysis and a testimonial to john kerry taking care of the unique selling point of john kerry that it's the personal biography say the relevance of that to being a president who understands the terror of war and at a fragility of peace and casting him in the indian tradition of of dwight eisenhower and harry truman was not bad right now there's a few moments ago the convention heard from congresswoman tammy baldwin of wisconsin we thought we replay for you or remarks on health care he's like that may

we hear a lot about health care or cap eric been only one candidate for president shares that vision that is why we must elect john kerry john kerry can essentially do that health care is not a privilege for a song but a right for every american john kerry knows that accessible health care is a cornerstone of a safe and strong nation john kerry will make a portable health care a priority and we need it to be in wisconsin and in every corner of the country the american people are sending that message loud and clear and we hear you we hear alan weil of known or wisconsin to say where i work our insurance premiums have doubled insurance and drug companies are out

of control they are taking us to the cleaners well now john i've got a shot in the arm while you when john kerry's president ought to stop the abuses in small spiraling health care costs and pass the savings on to american families we hear amy she'll of sun prairie wisconsin you've told me that her sixty seven year old

mother asked me three or four hundred dollars every few months for prescription drugs it's a neat as president john kerry will negotiate with drug companies not comprehensive prescription drug coverage to medicare and eliminate loopholes keep a portable medicines often market we hear ed of stoughton wisconsin whose husband runs a small auto repair shop they're trying to afford health care for their family including two young children as well as their workers in one year the babies made their hmo almost forty thousand dollars premiums she wrote this is more than we typically earn any year it's getting to the point we will have to choose between daily necessities and health care and wooly john kerry is adhering to and when he's president

you will cover every child in america period and its problems small business owners such as the bee gees so his plan to pay for the cost of coverage for them and their workers john kerry wants all americans to be able to enjoy the same great health care that members of congress and their families enjoy and no guarantee that right to family health care benefits are all of our families including domestic partners you know we live in an age of medical miracles perhaps the greatest of them all lies and white part of my history at the university of wisconsin in madison was there in nineteen ninety eight a doctor and his team of researchers successfully

established and sustained several lines of embryonic stem cells in a laboratory scientists believe that these stem cells may now not the treatments and cures for most debilitating illnesses injuries also miners parkinson's heart disease spinal cord injuries diabetes and enemies list of ailments that we could potentially eliminate ortiz but in order to satisfy the far right wing of his party's current president is holding these stem cell and although i promised five states when john kerry is elected president to waste no time in lifting the restrictions on stem cell research well what are people's power over his political and that's the kind of president we deserve the most sacred tenet of the positions

both is first do no harm but everyday americans are facing rate for workers who can't afford their premiums small business owners who can provide benefits to their workers seniors who can't afford their prescriptions to families who can't see their doctor of choice if our leaders have promised health care for all to hear rob why can't we do the same here as are we hear you in america we say when we talk about health care there's only one candidate for president who listens one candidate who hears as one candidate will make high quality health care affordable for all so when we talk about health care when there's also talk about and do all that we can to elect as the next president of the united states john kerry

mentioned earlier no we go back through what's happening right now and the more you can enclose a short remembrance of nine eleven everyone was going on about their lives it was just another day never to forget coming out of that crystal sky the unspeakable horror the disbelief the shah never to forget how he clung to each other and wept as the towers fell how armies of selfless people of all ages all cultures all faiths all colors spontaneous it spontaneously poured forth to help not only from the wounded city but from across the entire country

and they kept coming before we knew all the numbers and the names and the countless day never to forget the silence the vigils the flowers the walls and fences covered with fluttering letters and horns and laments and thousands and thousands of egyptians to never forget that those who lost their lives were all our brothers and sisters we find ourselves together at this moment in history in one way or another we are all survivors of nine eleven our cities our times our society ourselves have been changed forever how we respond how our political system survives this test how human dignity and human liberty are nurtured and protected not only on the show is that across our

entire planet will be the great test of this generation it all began on an ordinary cloudless day we will never forget them my name is really nice song lean on september eleven i lost my daughter rama my son in law means he and my and one grandchild when american airlines flight eleven though he lost that day one house burns and wives children

neighbors and friends we thought oh we would have been longer we thought we had more time as the families we still have the angels of the morning and white house says he is the whole country agreed with us and really on their support in our pre any grounds shattering aftermath we truly understood that as americans everything had changed and we would not have the luxury of time an innocence again tonight i come here are two

ads that you would never forget our loved ones do remember they were people exactly like you and me each with their own starring r det asks that you get them a human face and then i want to ask you remember september eleven as the day we were why now it was the day we acted as we were responsible for each other you might use it was very unique it was and must remain the defining moment that reminds us what unites is what

divides us fb but this ad up those innocent souls we last and what the soul of the backcountry line moore's law work as a month we bring our memories but we turn our faces to what's the future to white house will threaten to wipe the ongoing stream of life now as we turn our faces to wipe a new day and a new well to this trend of who we were on nine eleven should stay with us a light in the darkness to show us the way

thank you here in the boston area now than she said she was seven months pregnant with her first child to be best friends wedding of high school salinas sits on the democratic platform committee you know performing on the mountain is sixty new things are in to

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another prominent native john kerry's navy's fifth vote in vietnam that moving more kids why a sixteen year weiland is the last of the material in this is wilkie so routine they're laced well david edelstein it's roomy the

plan i joined here tonight in boston workplace of the american revolution to celebrate their ideals of which our nation was founded freedom equality and democracy also come here tonight to our friend of my a man of parades and conviction and a man whose fault that these ideals this entire life john kerry many of you in this holiday known done very well and it's we made together no no and that

we used to patrol the narrow waterways of the big long freight on both sides that the jungle room at the watson what it we were traveling build that and we all think they want to set the tag on the at eighty eight in the shadows with jim lyall rocket propelled grenades and all paint that includes the military had to make life a bit of the anti your beau you have to rely all give the amo hello julie and is that at all david that most of us that would be solely no including that that it would have been easy if there now believes the separate baseball will return back that law now the remotest

at lieutenant there was in on what they can apply to legally i can still see him now standing in a galway at the white house and its and sixty well and jr what's even directly on the beach the boat ride into the teeth of annapolis and so the attack as it a little olive oil and the top of their situations lawyer even wounded knee and when the shooting stops you have always get to with a caring and then all my film as india are you ok within a cherry always planned to call us now to bring us back to

reality to moscow to show us what we still ahead with that our sales i came to la i respect him as the man that i am a man of very and i'm not that weird that night and the day we're just now living it's big is any good i am great roy liu lei

one of the men fighting and dying on the wall of a replay with the brave men and women they are going their love of all that beyond a berm if you thought we were too i mean we need to elect the man of faith experience and wisdom man who know they're defending america means within an hour most fundamental right of a man to know that it's not just about what to do but it's fined them to do it the quality of

maturity don married hey hey ho ho hey that's a very odd and i think that it you know it would be and the man who may be the idea that we are people you know the american it is now out and the baggy jeans the down ballot do the right as americans the right to vote on november second join me that they know that or you know as mags bennett you may

weis says he will warrior issue with the rosenberg really hard with president carter talked about the experience or a combat zone in a piece in the presidency david austin spoke as a privileged observed some insight i'm curious ian man the most difficult circumstances and then and then after this character witness testimony of july came to love respect and

he always showed the courage to speak that is the way that it was in their face dignity and taking the fight to the enemy and it was just it was to find the defender in chief which have to give religion or didn't have elections of nineteen eighty two nineteen eighty six and two thousand it was the biggest import them have no received be affected as they whirl it wasn't even on the radar of those moments that was one vote for purity or herbert walker bush against bill clinton because of that you know and it was just this alien job would have and now we see it and legs of we know this

is a tricky it is what i'm curious anomaly he would be sober and i think partly it's just it's a warm caring it won what's really know someone will what i think is that people don't fully formed character in washington as the legislation before partition from some sort of ordeal i wonder what he did in the moment where you are and one moment about us any narrower than it has people here they talk about their dysfunctional families that's one way for character serving or is these stress tests and dante hesse that estimate from only connected with this cheap dates with other people and reveal something new on something really true and one of them is most important qualities says most valuable quality summer warrior is today his record

we're here presidential level job at i think that's one reason i think the other thing is that you know here we are in a situation where most americans have never heard of john kerry is january many americans still democrats are filling in the blanks and i think that kerry's war record is shorthand for a lot of strength financial security character and also the obvious comparison with president bush will be revealed the junior senator mccain

mccain now all that is gone new evolution and training

americans so that day eight year is he's just very honest last year and interviews at the last rate democratic presidents at first i want to say a few words about the pain now just heard be moving testimonials about the poorest of september the eleventh and the extraordinary witness saying by reverend alston concerning is lieutenant john kerry i

don't know how any american could hear the reverend all sin and not know john kerry is the man we need to be hard it's been really great but also of great promise for the country we live together we can once again why in the circle of opportunity for all americans we can once again transcend our differences and divisions we can once again give our children a safer and more secure future that is the promise of america i'm very well every new leaf that promise to this generation and generations to come he knows very well that you have to lead in the world

not really made it we won't worry that gap and said night raids that he will not lose them and t will sow a whole year rises or arguable ninety eight nora now i know a thing or two about health care that the problems have only gotten worse in the last four years we need to rededicate ourselves to the task of providing health care coverage for the forty four million americans who don't have it and we have to do more to lower the cost for all the rest of americans who are facing increasing healthcare insurance premiums and drama prizes

we also need to lift the ban on stem cell research mine and it requires serious solutions and that's what john kerry is good and that's what he will give us you will also give us something else a great vice president by the name of this energy and he's empathetic and he understands the challenges that hard working americans face in their daily lives americans will be proud to have the harry

edwards team in the white house and they will be proud as we all will be ordinary partners and then through our share of challenges as americans you know from a civil war to a great depression to world wars and so much more that being a senator from new york i saw firsthand all of my friends and colleagues did the devastation of september the eleven i visited ground zero the day after we were attacked and i felt like i was standing at the gates of hell i hope no american ever asked to

witness all horrible sight like that ever again and yet that tragedy both changed and challenge to us i know it did for me and every day now as a mother as a senator as an american i worry about whether we are acting as wisely as we can to protect our country and our people last week the bipartisan nine eleven commission issued its report and that commission would never have been in existence had it not been for the braves family members to pay more that we

ignore at our peril john kerry understands what's at stake when it comes to our security we need to fully equip and train our firefighters our police officers and our emergency medical technicians they are our first responders in the advance of a terrorist attack and we need to secure our borders are rail lines and airports as well as our chemical and nuclear plants we need to reorganize our federal government to meet the new threats of these times and we need to make sure that homeland security is a priority and that it is funded properly and that the resources go to the areas of greatest risk like new york city and along with that

we need to take care of our men and women in uniform who like john kerry risk their lives and for too many lost their lives in service to our country these brave americans deserve better we needed to increase our troop strength we need to raise their way we need to provide our veterans our national guard and reserve with the candidates they aren't i don't know where they are foreign born are in and you know what we need to meet these challenges me a new commander in st meantime mayor john kerry had a serious man or a serious job

in a serious time in our country's history so let so i'm gathering great wall but throughout our nation and do everything we possibly can to convince our fellow americans to look to the future fill a deep inside themselves they know what is best for our children and if we just have the courage to act on our conviction we will why overwhelming majority say and john kerry and john edwards to do their duty more i think about this election and i think i know a great

leader when i see one america in nineteen ninety two and nineteen ninety six americans so is a president elect our country in better shape and we need took office and he's still spends his days working to empower the powerless to promote racial religious and ethnic reconciliation to inspire young people to citizen service and to bring life saving medicines that people living with age ninety eight throughout the world of the

show the democrats oh well they're a name that have higher right decisions by the va a voice i'm honored to reunite and i'll apply to people in new york are getting really

thrive and we're both very grateful to all of you especially not the most markets all for giving me the chance to sort of a white house tour eight years i am honored to share this night with president carter room i worked in nineteen seventy six and was inspired by world leaders work for peace democracy and human rights lawyer my friend and my partner for eight years and played such a large and well in selling the prosperity and peace that we left america in two thousand and al gore as he showed in a night demonstrated incredible patriotism and grace under pressure he is the living embodiment of the principle that every vote counts and this year we're going to make sure they're all counting

at the three conventions as a candidate or president tonight i actually use the service is returning the role that i had played for most of my life as a foot soldier an archive of the future as we nominated wasn't a true new england patriots for president vowed to say who gave us another transit sounds john adams and john kennedy has given us john kerry a good man a great senator a visionary leader and we're all here to do what we can to make him the next president we're constantly being told that america is

deeply divided on all americans value freedom than say and sound we all of the service and sacrifice of our men and women in uniform in iraq afghanistan and throughout the world we all wanted to ask us who felt very safe streets a clean environment we all want our children to grow up in a secure america leading the world toward a peaceful and prosperous future are differences our best achieve these things on president's day therefore we democrats are rated the american people this year a positive campaign arguing on who's a daughter a bad person but what is the best way to build a safe and prosperous world good morning

it's marked by serious security threats serious economic challenges and serious problems from a civil war warning to the continuing turmoil in the middle east but it's also full of amazing opportunities to create millions of new jobs in clean energy about technology to restore our manufacturing base and reap the benefits of the global economy through our diversity and our commitment to decency labor and environmental standards from people all across the world where we can celebrate our religious or racial or ethnic or tribal differences because our common humanity matters most the wall the world when this like the right choices and we must have a president who will lead the way democrats and

republicans have very different and deeply felt ideas about what choices we should my diary in a fundamentally different views of how we should be our common sounds at home and how we should play our role in the world we democrats want to build a world and america's shared responsibilities and share bonuses we want a world of more global cooperation where we act alone only when we absolutely have to we think the role of government should be to get people the tools of create this is like the most of their own lives and thinks everybody should have that sense the republicans in washington will be there in a world in which america acts unilaterally when we can and cooperates

when we have to believe the role of government is to concentrate well and how in the hands of those who will raise their economic political and social views leading ordinary citizens defense of themselves on important matters like healthcare and retirement security now since most americans aren't that far to the right are prayers at the periphery as democrats is simply unacceptable liking and strength and balance in other words baby a divided america but we don't americans long been reunited after nine eleven we all just wanted to be one nation

not a single american on september twelve two thousand and one care who won the next presidential election all we wanted to do was to be one country strong in a fight against terror helping to heal those were wounded and the families of those who lost their loved ones reaching out to the rest of the world so we could meet these new challenges and along with our democratic way of life the president had an amazing opportunity to bring the country together under his slogan of compassionate conservatism and unite the war and the struggle against their instead he is the us allies led a very different choice they chose to move that to use that moment of unity to drive across the country to form of the right and to walk away from our allies not only an attack in iraq before the weapons inspectors have finished their work what i would join american support for the climate change treaty and for the international coral more prevalent anthony any ballistic missile treaty and for the

nuclear test ban treaty and we're trying to get other people to be about nuclear biological and chemical weapons that are trying to develop new nuclear weapons which they say we might use force at home his ad may be equally fateful choices which they also deeply believe in for the first time americans on a war footing in our whole history they gave to a huge tax cuts nearly happened with which of the top one percent of us now and then the fourth on law you might remember that when i was an office on occasion republicans were not immediately soon as i got out late monday abbott a global support group in the world and it was amazing and i never thought i'd

be so well cared for by the person can almost say oh thank you know tax cuts until i realize that the rest of you play in the billboard in an outdoor better choices sources they believe in late show to protect the taxpayer will call while upholding promised funding for the leave no child behind that leaving to avoid one million to not tax cuts while putting a hundred and forty thousand unemployed workers out of a job turning a hundred thousand working families out of their job assistance

and worst of all we're putting three hundred thousand poor children out other actors when we know it leaves a lot of streets out of trouble in school learning about the medically raising the out of pocket cost of health care to our veterans and wild weakening on reversing very important environmental measures account or not put into place every day vividly there for the protection of our forties now in this time everyone in america had to sacrifice except the wealthiest americans and most of us almost all the republicans independents and democrats we want to be asking our part to what all biased disability spend the energy necessary the obama will retain our tax cuts now if you don't like these choices and you agree with them usually vote to return

to the white house in the times if not john kerry john edwards and the democrats it's b federal funding for police officers under the top ten year among those eighty eight thousand police and more than seven hundred members of the new york police department with their lives alone on nine eleven with gang violence rising and what i was looking for terrorists in our midst and hoping they're not to our mutual bank the president and the congress are about to allow the ten year old ban on deadly assault weapons to

last i believe it's right thing to do what our policy was to put more police on the street and it's like assault weapons artistry and eight it is a policy that's like the police on the streets while it was assault weapons back on the street that joyce wyoming toad to keep him in office what if you don't join john kerry john edwards of the democrats and making america's homeland security on homeland security democrats try to double the number of reports of airports it costs a million dollars it would've been paid for under our bill majeski to two hundred thousand millionaires in america to cut their tax cut by

five thousand dollars almost like two hundred million americans the measure failed law because the white house republican leadership in the house of representatives a closed they thought our five thousand dollars was more important and doubling the states later checks at airports and airports if you agree with that by all means we're like them but not john kerry and john edwards have rejected five point eight trillion dollars tarp was that we left another paper the baby boom retirement into a projected that almost five trillion dollars worth over four hundred million dollars deficit this year and for years to come why haven't i play for the deficit or is but it was so security surplus that comes in every month and endorsing a chance of working people that but it's not enough so that they had a war wanting most of them are from the chinese the japanese government

you're really smart so if baby if you believe that is to provide tax cuts with a sole security checks are working men and women and borrow money from china and japan you should both of them have not the league two strong man who both love their country but who have very different worldviews our nominee john kerry in favor serve responsible research opportunity more global cooperation and their president and their party in congress in five are concentrated wealth and power leading people to fend for themselves in more unilateral action i think we're like at your reasons for a small market just works better when more people have a chance to live their

dreams and secondly we cannot possibly killed a lot about all are potential adversaries so we have to fight terror and build a world with more partners and fewer terrorists now retired their wife or twelve years we primarily for eight years or more or the only test it matters whether people are better off with anderson we started our way works better rising incomes for the middle class over a hundred times as many people moved from poverty into the middle class more health care the largest increase in college in fifty years record homeowners a cleaner environment research losses in a row a modernized defense for strong effort against terror and i respect that america and the world

we have a great new champions in john kerry and john edwards wonderful wants to raise that their generous and wise woman who understands the world were trying to shape and elizabeth a lawyer and mother who understands the lines were trying to move to do what i know about john kerry i've been singing all the republican ads many young men including the president the vice president and me could've gone to vietnam when john kerry came from a privileged background he could avoid going to lose that he says sandy the

way the american flag unlike the enemy to come out in five john kerry said send me again on my watch and it was time to be alone war and normalized relations with vietnam and demand accountability of audience in mit's we lost their john kerry said sammy worse because of inner city children struggling to avoid a lot of time wondering about that supply technology to ordinary americans want a clean environment a way to create new jobs or to give small businesses a better chance to make it john kerry said sammy my friends i ask you to join me the next one hundred days and telling john kerry story and promoting his audience let every person this fall in like minded people all across our land so i always say yes

it's been on the placebo that greatly they saw in battle i have seen in politics when i was president john kerry showed courage and conviction on crime on welfare reform on balancing the budget at a time when both parties were not exactly the way to win a popularity contest and our party john kerry took up positions on top problems he knows who it is and where he's gone he has the experience that character the ideas that guidance to be a great president and in a time of change he has two other very important also an insatiable curiosity to understand the world around him and the willingness to use this agreement john carroll make choices that reflect all the

conviction and commonsense you prove that when a big john edwards to be his partner a piano player fb a piece

based on the peak and john kerry has called this first priority will be to keep america safe remember the scripture be not offering john kerry and john edwards are good people would deny the idea is to make the economy work again for middle class americans to restore fiscal responsibility to say social security to make healthcare more affordable and college more available the freddie as their dependence on foreign oil and create new jobs would clean energy and a cleaner environment and rally the world to our side in the war against terror and the michael moore what more unless my friends and every turning point in our history we the people have chosen unity over division

at our founders call the americas eternal mission to form a more perfect union the widen the circle of opportunity in deep in the reaches freedom and strengthen the bonds of our community it happen every time because we make the right choices in the early days of the republic america was divided then at a crossroads much as it is today deeply divided over whether or not to build relations with the national economy we chose to build a more perfect union and a civil war america was at another crossroads deeply divided over whether to save the union and enslave that we chose a more perfect union in the nineteen sixties when i was a young man we were divided again over civil rights and women's rights and again we chose to form a more perfect union as i said it was a good night we're all in this together

we have an obligation both the work hard and help our fellow citizens and obligation both to fight terror and the bill the world more cooperation and less than now again it is time to choose sides were all in the same boat we should use a captain of our show who is a braver man who knows not as they're a vessel through troubled water for the con season of their size of a more perfect union that is our mission in south sudan second

movies to make a speech in my mouth with red that message so that when you go away from my devices again he continued the theme of the sale of the sea the sailor the battle tested leader writing i think i was concerned i think democrats say that it would play better in the whole country and the whole evening i thought i'd play a speech he

was a vice president and it was the prosecutor who's laying out the indictments against administration gives a tough speech of the nominee gives the big speech just read more about the vice president's speech was very prosecutorial wake of the policies i think it was on a black sort of a central theme the poetry but i would say i'm not sure if it will not have done a lot of low level of speech and one thing is a lot of concern about what was in which her office killian enacted so that was a good delivery but what i was referring to in terms of a candidate making us be a south beach not the cheese that is that once the hall and he looks much younger they

get robbed for a second term since thursday we've heard al gore i have also i think five or six years younger generation reversal know younger person whether that is the basic message of sending john kerry he always said cindi a certain at all levels you think that's going to resonate and in the country certainly didn't follow their religion to do a broad moral attack on what he said has this policy that it eventually says that policy wonky but i think that a lot of specific policies i would say you know i was a caricature say republicans favor concentrate well some people wonder if you know exactly administration's overarching spiritual railway live in a specific way

that pretty well and that is that if countries of my columns and he really emphasized that marked the yemeni meaning it's a really good thing to say about his self effacing as opposed to four years ago which was also a celebration was a liberation of him having a paycheck that was almost a celebration of family and employees tertiary dry during the central to the sea will it crumple from his own record and did john kerry and john kerry again just as others did jimmy carter did what did a john kerry this was an isolated life in his recent years created a record demos

of cover john kerry will be back to your comments and un also let's go again emanuel has been