More from Howard Dean's Blog... CSPAN has archived the video of Dean's speech in Boston this week. If you haven't heard him speak, this is a good opportunity.
Link:
http://video.c-span.org:8080/ramgen/idrive/project/c04/c04092303_dean.rm

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Text excerpts from the speech are here:
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Democracy, Freedom, Action

"Our founders understood that threat. James Madison and Thomas Jefferson spoke of the fear that economic power would one day seize political power.

"That fear has been realized with the Bush administration.

"Under the Bush Administration, the largest corporations and the wealthiest individuals benefit from tax-cuts that are bankrupting the states and starving Social Security, Medicare, and our public schools.

"These tax cuts reward the largest political contributors at the expense of today's middle class, whose property taxes are skyrocketing.

"The flood of special interest money into Washington has transformed the system of American government from a government participated in by all to a government accessible to only a few.

"The oil companies write our energy policy; big pharmaceutical companies draft Medicare reform without price controls; and in Iraq, Halliburton is awarded a $1.7 billion no-bid contract........

"A true Patriot Act is not born out of fear, but out of trust; it is not born out of division, but out of community; it is not born out of suspicion, but out of faith in each of us.

"We need to remind this administration what a Patriot Act is.

"A neighbor lends a hand to a friend in need that is a Patriot Act.

"A mother struggles for her children's future that is a Patriot Act.

"An immigrant becomes a member of our American family that is a Patriot Act.

"Men and women risk life and limb on behalf of our country through our armed services that is a Patriot Act.

"Americans come together as a community and as a country to declare their values, their rights, and their very independence that is a Patriot Act, as it was in 1776 and as it is over two hundred years later and as it will be, through our actions, over two hundred years from now. "..........
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Hearing the full speech in Dean's voice gives you more of a clear impression of the character of this man.


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