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 imagineto 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 greatsocial 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 rightsit'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 generationhe 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 learningand 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 Iraqas 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 youngand the young at heartBarack 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.
Every four years they trot her out. What has Caroline Kennedy ever done except be born a Kennedy?
“As my Irish grandmother would have said....
the devil take her soul”
And my Irish grandmother would have said “Over the fence is out”.
“As my Irish grandmother would have said....
the devil take her soul”
And my Irish grandmother would have said “Over the fence is out”.
As my Irish granny would have said ‘’And the Devil have ye!’’
Yeah, well, Caroline, as the posters carried by lots of Tea Partiers in the March on DC in 2009 said, "Bury Obamacare with Ted Kennedy".
Our attitude hasn't changed. We're looking forward to the day Obamacare is repealed.
Hey Caroline...Good Catholics don’t pick and choose.
Of course, Caroline Kennedy Schlossberg, as a pom pom girl or aging harridan for abortion, does not begin to qualify as a fine and decent person, any more than Mittler is. AND it is her perfidy that excommunicates her and not the similar perfidy of sooooo many of her relatives.
Her Uncle Teddy has been sober for more than two years now! And Mary Jo has been dead for 43 years.
In more sensible times, we would have had her burned at the stake for those words, after, ummm, due inquiry. Of course nowadays, the Godless state would interfere. In those earlier times, she would have noted a few burnings of others and would not have had the guts to behave as she does. They had a name for heretics like her: ashes!
Your uncle was a murdering rapist and your daddy sexually harassed women in the workplace and may have conspired to murder or at least cover up involvement in the death of Marilyn Monroe.
YOU ARE NOT PRO-WOMAN Carrie.
And yet they still bitch and moan that women are paid 75 cents for every dollar a man makes. 45 years of such griping. Even after all of the legislation has supposedly been signed throughout the years.
Blah blah blah blah blah.
That's not the kind of future I want for my daughters or your daughters.
Barry FOUGHT to leave babies that survive abortion gasping for air for HOURS in hospital utility closets unwilling to concede that is a LIFE.
Barack Hussein Obama does NOT fight FOR children, you evil shrew of a woman.
As a practicing Catholic woman...I plan to email Ms. Kennedy today. May God have mercy on her soul.
In 2008 her fortune was estimated at over $100 million.
When she was an unsuccessful candidate for appointment to an open U. S. Senate seat a couple of years ago, she gave a noteworthy interview to the media in which she used the phrase "ya know" 168 times in under 30 minutes..
Leni
GOOD post. I didn’t watch a minute of the hateful convention.
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