Posted on 09/01/2004 7:20:11 PM PDT by NavySEAL F-16
THe irony is that Zell was replaced by Paul Coverdale who died in 2000. After the defection of Jim Jeffords, it tilted the Senate. You know the Democrats were giddy when Senator Coverdale died, but I am sure it is a different story today.
Zell was just dynamite on everything last night. I chose the first part for two reasons. One was the look on the face of President Bush when he was told about the second plane crashing into the Trade Center. I will never forget that look.
Second is a picture online a couple of months ago. President Bush was working the rope line at some event. He shook hands with a girl about 12, her father and their neighbor. As he was moving along someone told him the girl had lost her mother in the Trade Center attack. He stopped, went back, asked her how she was and just gave her a big hug. The father was able to snap a picture. You could actually see into the soul of President Bush at that moment. It showed the pain and suffering and anguish he felt for all the victims and the nation.
Saved a copy of the picture but have no way at the moment to post it.
Zell's speech delivered more than a flesh wound!
And nothing makes this Marine madder than someone calling American troops occupiers rather than liberators.
Now we know Iraq's infrastructure needs to be rebuilt and we face the challenge of forging a new government and giving it legitimacy under circumstances that were entirely predictable and entirely ignored by this administration. We were told by this administration, in their confidence--and, may I add, in their arrogance--that the Iraqis would see us as liberators.
They see us as occupiers --again, something many predicted absent the effort to try to globalize our effort. They see us as a foreign power ruling over their country, preventing self-determination, not providing it. We were told to expect elections and quick transition to self-governance. But now we know those elections may be many months away at best.
Mr. KERRY. Mr. President, 6 months ago, President Bush took the country to war with Iraq, without the support of key allies other than Britain, without the support of the international community at large. We didn't need international support to win the war. We all knew that our brave fighting men and women would defeat Saddam Hussein's forces easily. But we did--and we do--need the international community to help us win the peace--a painfully obvious truth that this administration has steadfastly refused to accept.
As long as Iraqis see us as occupiers rather than liberators, our troops will remain at increased risk and our efforts to rebuild Iraq's economy and political system will be suspect. The process of reconstructing Iraq and creating a new Iraqi government must be an international process--not an American process. Only then will it gain full legitimacy in the eyes of the Iraqi people and the world.
The Bush administration's brazen go-it-alone policy has placed the burden and the bill for rebuilding Iraq almost solely on the shoulders of the American people. They don't deserve it, and they don't want it. We need an immediate change of course.
(Senate - October 17, 2003)
This administration's brazen go-it-alone policy has placed our soldiers at unnecessary risk and our hopes for success in jeopardy. It has turned American liberators into occupiers in the eyes of many Iraqis. It has created a terrorist presence in Iraq where none previously existed and made Iraq a recruiting poster for terrorists of the future. It has undermined the legitimacy of our efforts at home, abroad, and in Iraq. And it has left Iraqis wondering when they will get their country back. We cannot continue on this course. The stakes are too high--for our troops, for the Iraqi people, for the region, and for American security.
Wow, I didn't know that. Jumping Jim gave us Zell?
I watched his speech last night and was amazed with his delivery and conviction and choice of words. Also the fact the he seemed to have memorized it or just knew it from the heart.
It was a speech to remember, wish I had taped it. He shredded Kerry and definitely brought some votes to us. He also gave Kerry voters a guilty conscience, provided they have one and watched the speech.
My favourite political speech ever.
I'm smelling burnt toast coming from John Kerry's Waffle House.
The media says some did and some didn't. The media of course pointed out that there were more protestors for Bush's arrival than Kerry's.
Yep, that's why algore lost Tennessee. Everyone despised the way he held up traffic EVERYTIME he came "home".
As Truman said in response to: "Give em Hell, Harry."
"I give 'em the truth, they think it's Hell"
Er, he's got it all backwards ...
Paul Coverdell gave the Governor the opportunity to appoint a Democrat to replace him ... Zell Miller.
http://www.cnn.com/2000/ALLPOLITICS/stories/07/27/miller.senate.ap/
"I will serve no single political party, but rather 71/2 million Georgians," Miller said. "And every day I serve, I will do my best to do so in the same spirit of dignity, integrity and bipartisan cooperation that were the hallmarks of Paul Coverdell's career."
Democratic leader Tom Daschle of South Dakota said Coverdell and Miller have many similarities, despite their political differences. "Like Paul Coverdell, Zell Miller builds bridges, not walls," Daschle said.
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I am sure Daschle is deeply saddened when Zell Miller blamed Daschle for forcing 17 nay votes on the Homeland Security Bill, because they wanted to put labor union special interests above national security. He did that on Hardball last night.
Er, should has said:
Paul Coverdell's *death* gave the Governor the opportunity to appoint a Democrat to replace him ... Zell Miller.
Great speech. No doubt the best of the convention. The Democrat Party of today is not the same my grandparents belonged to.
Sean Hannity warned everyone that it was going to be powerful. But that was an understatement. His speech absolutley blew me away. I could not believe it. I still am pinching myself this morning.
Is anyone here "Mad as Zell and not going to take it anymore?"
Is anyone here "Mad as Zell and not going to take it anymore?"
LOL!
Great line!
I saw it on another thread. Wish I could claim ownership.
Wasn't it great seeing Zell taking on spitting Christine Matthews?
Matthews is such a horse puck. And when Zell mentioned he had seen what Matthews did to Michelle, Zell was livid in his condemnation.
Of course, the weakknee'd MSBNC hosts made fun of Zell when Zell wasn't around to hear them. What wusses!
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