Maybe The Writers Strike Caused Caroline Kennedy To Reuse Her 2000 Endorsement Of Gore For Her 2008 Endorsement of Obama?!?!
That is what my father sought to do 40 years ago in this city when he stood before you and declared the opening of the new frontier. It was not a set of promises, he said, but a set of challenges — challenges of the mind and heart and spirit, the challenge of giving of ourselves, of giving to our country.
And I know that when my brother, John, and I were growing up, hardly a day went by when someone didn’t come up to us and say, your father changed my life. I went…
I went into public service…
I went into public service because he asked me. I take great pride in knowing that one of those that he inspired to enter public service is the next vice president of the United States, Joe Lieberman.
So as I look out across this hall and across this country, I know that my father’s spirit lives on.
And I thank all of you.
Now, it is our turn to prove that the New Frontier was not a place in time, but a timeless call.
Now, we are the New Frontier. And now when many of us are doing so well, it is time once again, to ask more of ourselves. As much as we need a prosperous economy, we also need a prosperity of kindness and decency.
We need a president who will work to create an America where our parents and grandparents feel secure, our children are cared for, and Americans grow up believing that each one of us is necessary to make our democracy work.
We need a president who is not afraid of complexity, who believes in an open and tolerant society, and who knows that the world can be made new again. And that president is Al Gore.
When I was writing a book on the Bill of Rights, I spoke with a woman who has spent 15 years fighting for the First Amendment. When I asked her how she had given up so much of her life to do this, she said, “It is up to each of us to create a government that is close to our heart’s desire, because if we don’t do it, somebody else will.”
It is up to each and every single one of us to leave this convention and work as hard we can to help Al Gore create the America of our ideals.
Because let me tell you, that somebody else’s government is not what we want.
If we believe in civil rights and human rights and closing the racial divide, then it is up to us. If we believe in clean air and clean water, then it is up to us.
If we want a Supreme Court that will protect the freedoms in the Constitution and the Bill of Rights, including the right to privacy, that will keep our personal, financial and medical information from being up for grabs and will guarantee the right to make our own reproductive decisions, then it is up to us.
And if we believe — if we believe that we have seen enough gun violence in our land and in our lifetimes, that guns should no longer take the lives of those we love, then it is up to us.
If we believe in these things, then it is up to us to elect Al Gore and Joe Lieberman.
I was lucky enough to grow up in a world where adults taught by example. They dreamed impossible dreams, yet they fought hard each day to make those dreams come true. They taught us the importance of faith and family and how those values must be woven together into lives of purpose and meaning.
That is what my husband Ed and I want for our three children. That is what Al and Tipper Gore want for their children.
Now I believe — I believe that is what my father wanted for us as he stood here four decades ago; not only to make better the world that surrounds us but to dream of something more.
I thank all Americans for making me and John and all our family a part of your families…
… for reaching out — for reaching out and sustaining us through the good times and the difficult ones, and for helping us dream my father’s dream.
“Our call is to the young at heart regardless of age,” he said. “The whole world looks to see what we will do. We cannot fail their trust. We cannot fail to try.”
2008:
OVER the years, I’ve been deeply moved by the people who’ve told me they wished they could feel inspired and hopeful about America the way people did when my father was president. This sense is even more profound today. That is why I am supporting a presidential candidate in the Democratic primaries, Barack Obama.
My reasons are patriotic, political and personal, and the three are intertwined. All my life, people have told me that my father changed their lives, that they got involved in public service or politics because he asked them to. And the generation he inspired has passed that spirit on to its children. I meet young people who were born long after John F. Kennedy was president, yet who ask me how to live out his ideals.
Sometimes it takes a while to recognize that someone has a special ability to get us to believe in ourselves, to tie that belief to our highest ideals and imagine that together we can do great things. In those rare moments, when such a person comes along, we need to put aside our plans and reach for what we know is possible.
We have that kind of opportunity with Senator Obama. It isn’t that the other candidates are not experienced or knowledgeable. But this year, that may not be enough. We need a change in the leadership of this country ” just as we did in 1960.
Most of us would prefer to base our voting decision on policy differences. However, the candidates’ goals are similar. They have all laid out detailed plans on everything from strengthening our middle class to investing in early childhood education. So qualities of leadership, character and judgment play a larger role than usual.
Senator Obama has demonstrated these qualities throughout his more than two decades of public service, not just in the United States Senate but in Illinois, where he helped turn around struggling communities, taught constitutional law and was an elected state official for eight years. And Senator Obama is showing the same qualities today. He has built a movement that is changing the face of politics in this country, and he has demonstrated a special gift for inspiring young people ” known for a willingness to volunteer, but an aversion to politics ” to become engaged in the political process.
I have spent the past five years working in the New York City public schools and have three teenage children of my own. There is a generation coming of age that is hopeful, hard-working, innovative and imaginative. But too many of them are also hopeless, defeated and disengaged. As parents, we have a responsibility to help our children to believe in themselves and in their power to shape their future. Senator Obama is inspiring my children, my parents’ grandchildren, with that sense of possibility.
Senator Obama is running a dignified and honest campaign. He has spoken eloquently about the role of faith in his life, and opened a window into his character in two compelling books. And when it comes to judgment, Barack Obama made the right call on the most important issue of our time by opposing the war in Iraq from the beginning.
I want a president who understands that his responsibility is to articulate a vision and encourage others to achieve it; who holds himself, and those around him, to the highest ethical standards; who appeals to the hopes of those who still believe in the American Dream, and those around the world who still believe in the American ideal; and who can lift our spirits, and make us believe again that our country needs every one of us to get involved.
I have never had a president who inspired me the way people tell me that my father inspired them. But for the first time, I believe I have found the man who could be that president ” not just for me, but for a new generation of Americans.
Maybe the writers strike cause this? The left is just lapping this up..
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