Posted on 09/06/2012 5:20:27 PM PDT by NYer
Caroline Kennedy, the daughter of Democratic President John F. Kennedy, speaks during a campaign event for President Barack Obama's re-election in , Thursday, June 28, 2012 at Hart's Turkey Farm in Meredith, N.H.
The Democratic National Convention released a full transcript of Caroline Kennedy's speech to the 2012 Democratic National Convention (as prepared for delivery). Read the full text below:
It's an honor to join you tonight for the most important reason I can imagine—to make sure that Barack Obama is re-elected president of the United States.
Four years ago, I was inspired by the way Senator Obama had lived his life, fighting for jobs, giving hope to the hopeless, and working day in and day out for the America he believes in. I was inspired by Barack Obama's vision for America, an America where we look out for one another, where we take responsibility for our sisters and brothers, and most of all, for our children.
Back then, I was inspired by the promise of Barack Obama's presidency. Today, I'm inspired by his record. Over the past four years, we have had a president who has committed himself and his administration to the values that made America great—social justice, economic fairness, equal opportunity, and the belief that if each of us gives back to this country we love, and all of us work together, there is no challenge we cannot overcome.
Those are the ideals my father and my uncles fought for. Those are the ideals I believe in. And this election is about whether we will advance those ideals or let them be swept away. Like my father's election in 1960, this is one of those elections where the future of our country is at stake. And women and children have the most on the line.
The president has been a champion for women's rights. The first bill he signed was to make sure women can fight for equal pay for equal work. His commitment to women is about even more than economic rights—it's about health care, reproductive rights, and our ability to make our own decisions about ourselves, our families, and our future. When it comes to what's best for women, there is only one candidate in this race who is on our side: Barack Obama.
As a Catholic woman, I take reproductive health seriously, and today, it is under attack. This year alone, more than a dozen states have passed more than 40 restrictions on women's access to reproductive health care. That's not the kind of future I want for my daughters or your daughters. Now isn't the time to roll back the rights we were winning when my father was president. Now is the time to move this country forward.
President Obama has shown the same commitment when it comes to our children. He has put our ideals into action for the next generation—he has inspired them to get involved, he has listened to their ideas, and he has committed us all to building a better future for them. He has challenged states to raise standards for teaching and learning—and almost all of them have. He has fought for early childhood education, putting outstanding teachers in every classroom, and making college more accessible to all young dreamers.
I know Barack Obama will fight for women and children, and all Americans, because he has proven it. He has the quality my father most admired in public life: courage.
Despite critics who said it wasn't good politics, President Obama listened to my Uncle Teddy, and staked his presidency on making health care accessible to all Americans.
Despite an opponent who wanted to "let Detroit go bankrupt," this president saved the auto industry, and now it's coming back strong. He not only demonstrated the courage to oppose the war in Iraq—as president, he showed the determination to bring our troops back home.
Barack Obama is the kind of leader my father wrote about in "Profiles in Courage." He doesn't just do what's easy. He does what's hard. He does what's right. My father couldn't run for a second term. It was left to his brothers, our family and the generation they inspired to fight for the America he believed in. Now, it's up to a new generation, our children's generation, to carry America forward.
So let me say to the young—and the young at heart—Barack Obama is only president because you worked for him. Because you believed in him. Because you convinced your parents to vote for him. Young people have always led America toward a brighter future. It happened in 1960. It happened in 2008. And if you show the same spirit in this election as you did in the last, I know that we'll make history again on November 6th.
There is that dogged loyalty to the party in this land that’ll kill us all!
Do Bubba Krintong and Sweet Caroline really hate Osambo? If they do, then shame on them!
Why do the Dems worship her? She’s a train wreck and an insult to what she claims as her religion....REALLY??? A pro-partial-birth-abortion Catholic? How is that possible?
She’s just another weirdo in the Dem freak show
As a Catholic woman, I take reproductive health seriously, and today, it is under attack. This year alone, more than a dozen states have passed more than 40 restrictions on women's access to reproductive health care. That's not the kind of future I want for my daughters or your daughters. Now isn't the time to roll back the rights we were winning when my father was president. Now is the time to move this country forward.
Meanwhile the Catholic hierarchy has its thumb quite firmly and shamefully placed in the middle of its derriere.
Stupid bitc% helped him get elected the first time around. Democrats truly are the party of stupid.
This poor girl doesn’t have a clue what her father was all about.
I sm sorry for how she lost him, but she is also lost in her own way.
I cannot imagine her parish priest is very happy with these words.
Sad. There are no bad Catholics, but plenty of self ex-communicated ones, who nevertheless wrap themselves with the mantle of the Church, as being “Catholic”, when they are quite separated from and outside of the Church, defiling and protesting the dogma and doctrine, until which time they are reconciled with the Church through confession, repentance and restitution.
This is Caroline Kennedy, in spades.
This idiot child is to be pitied for equating the Church with Marxism, socialism and communism, just because these ideologies successfully highjacked the Church term, “social justice”, penetrated the Church and wreaked havoc in the Body of Christ.
No tyrant, including Satan himself, Hitler included, failed to worm its way into attacking the centerpiece of salvation, God Himself and his Church.
“Many will come in my name saying, I am Christ, bit will deceive .......”. These people claim Him to use Him falsely to deceive.
Is this news to Christians? I think not.
Is it infuriating? Quite.
Shall we call them out? You betcha!
“....dumber than a box of hair.”
Hilarious! Somehow that astute observation makes me feel better.
Thanks!
How old was she when he died? Five, six?
She is free to voice her personal opinion but NOT to cite/use the Catholic Church while doing it. I almost fell of my chair when she said it.
I thought she was dead?!
When Caroline Kennedy Schlossberg wallows in the world of reproductive equality, she wallows in the fantasy land of the Unicorn Farm. Those who live in the real world know Marxism when we see it. And Catholicism, which she pretends to espouse, fought Communist Marxism all through the Cold War. It was something that her father, President Kennedy, helped defeat. We can thank God for Pope John Paul II for what he did in Poland to begin the fall.
Now Caroline helps those infiltrate the Church with Social Justice and a transformation that will use the Church as a tool for revolution. As all good Marxists, Caroline wants to “move this country forward” by dumping the past and our moral traditions.
Caroline:
What about the 50 MILLION DEAD BABIES?
‘...problem is YOU trying to get OTHERS to pay for YOUR choices. You ladies want choice? Then you pay for the results of your choice....’
Exactly!! The hypocrisy on display tonight is incredible. For all their talk about the “rich”, here’s Kerry and Kennedy speaking on behalf of the Party and President. Wonder if Mr.Kerry or Mz. Kennedy has shared their wealth with those poorer than they are.....which would be many, many people, including me. hmmm, maybe I should send them my address so they know where to send my share of their wealth! Hypocrites .......but, very good actors and sadly many will fall for their act.
Heard some guy on B’OR saying she has gravitas to talk about Catholic issues. How did she earn gravitas? CAuse her name is Kennedy? I turned the channel at hearing this chick has gravitas!
Well, one good thing that I see is that Caroline is the last of the generation of Kennedys that is so revered by the public at large.
After she is gone, there are no others that have the same aura about them and that means that the awful influence they have had on this country’s politics is almost at an end.
She should be ashamed, but then, Democrats have no shame as we have seen throughout this convention.
Well that's pretty convenient for the Church! LOL!
Click the link on my post 16
It’s quite a blessing for the communicants, who ARE the Church.
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