Text of Sharpton's speech

[baddog]

Okay, I found the transcript and have to really wonder what the Democrats were thinking.

I have a few select comments I enjoyed.

I'm glad to be joined by supporters and friends from around the country. I'm glad to be joined by my family, Kathy, Dominique, who will be 18, and Ashley.

Is he telling us she is soon to be fair game?

The promise of America guarantees health care for all of its citizens and doesn't force seniors to travel to Canada to buy prescription drugs they can't afford here at home.

Just how many seniors are making the trek to Canada to buy their meds? Give me a break, unless they live on a border town, it isn't happening.

The promise of America provides that those who work in our health care system can afford to be hospitalized in the very beds they clean up every day.

I hope he isn't suggesting socialism

The promise of America is that government does not seek to regulate your behavior in the bedroom, but to guarantee your right to provide food in the kitchen.

Pause for applause

The issue of government is not to determine who may sleep together in the bedroom, it's to help those that might not be eating in the kitchen.

Pause for applause again . . . but didn't he just say that?

The promise of America that we stand for human rights, whether it's fighting against slavery in the Sudan, where right now Joe Madison and others are fasting, around what is going on in the Sudan; AIDS in Lesotho; a police misconduct in this country.

WTF!?! Joe who? Fighting aginst slavery in the Sudan, AIDS in Lesotho? How does this fit in with police misconduct, and what exactly does the President have to do with that? Is everything the President's fault?

The promise of America is one immigration policy for all who seek to enter our shores, whether they come from Mexico, Haiti or Canada, there must be one set of rules for everybody.

Like there isn't already? Who is being kept out? Well, besides the Canadians.

We cannot look at the Latino community and preach "one language." No one gave them an English test before they sent them to Iraq to fight for America.

Bullshit, you can not join the military and not know how to speak English. It should be pointed out that no one forced anyone into the military (one of the few countries with no mandatory military service, although Kerry will likely change that (if elected).

The promise of America is that every citizen vote is counted and protected, and election schemes do not decide the election

Enough with the conspiracy theories please.

It, to me, is a glaring contradiction that we would fight, and rightfully so, to get the right to vote for the people in the capital of Iraq in Baghdad, but still don't give the federal right to vote for the people in the capital of the United States, in Washington, D.C.

Good point, but that is not Bush's fault, and I have yet to hear any candidate say anything about giving the crackheads in Wash, D.C. the right to vote . . .or is he suggesting that we should not allow the Iraqi's the right? I am not sure.

Mr. President, as I close, Mr. President, I heard you say Friday that you had questions for voters, particularly African- American voters. And you asked the question: Did the Democratic Party take us for granted? Well, I have raised questions. But let me answer your question.
You said the Republican Party was the party of Lincoln and Frederick Douglass. It is true that Mr. Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation, after which there was a commitment to give 40 acres and a mule.
That's where the argument, to this day, of reparations starts. We never got the 40 acres. We went all the way to Herbert Hoover, and we never got the 40 acres.
We didn't get the mule.

Okay, and Kerry is planning on giving mules to all blacks?

As you know, we lost Ray a few weeks ago, but I sat there that morning and listened to Ray sing through those speakers, "Oh beautiful for spacious skies, for amber waves of grain, for purple mountains' majesty across the fruited plain."
And it occurred to me as I heard Ray singing, that Ray wasn't singing about what he knew, because Ray had been blind since he was a child. He hadn't seen many purple mountains. He hadn't seen many fruited plains. He was singing about what he believed to be.
Mr. President, we love America, not because all of us have seen the beauty all the time.
But we believed if we kept on working, if we kept on marching, if we kept on voting, if we kept on believing, we would make America beautiful for everybody.
Starting in November, let's make America beautiful again

I guess we are going to start painting the mountains purple? That should be cool

[robfantasy]

bad move for the democrats letting this asshole speak. they already had the black vote, but now they will be losing some white votes.

[CamChicks]

The democrats have Sharpton . . .
but the republicans have Don King.

[kinkage]

Originally posted by CamChicks
The democrats have Sharpton . . .
but the republicans have Don King.

a couple of god damned idiots. I fucking hate al sharpton.

[pure energy]

[baddog]

Originally posted by pure energy

nice x

[Corona]

Originally posted by robfantasy
bad move for the democrats letting this asshole speak.

All ten of the Democrats that ran for president got a chance to speak at the convention.

[baddog]

Originally posted by Corona
All ten of the Democrats that ran for president got a chance to speak at the convention.

yeah, but was that really a smart move? I don't think so. I know they want to give the impression of unity in the party, but at what cost?

[baddog]

Originally posted by pure energy

okay, am glad that was a joke

[Corona]

Originally posted by baddog
yeah, but was that really a smart move? I don't think so.

I think Sharpton is a major nutcase but I loved it. I'm trying to find a mp3 of it right now.