Hillary has no answer for this as she is part of the problem, not the solution.
St. Anselm’s College, Manchester, New Hamphshire
October 29, 2007
Many of you know that I am the son of a mill worker – that I rose from modest means and have been blessed in so many ways in life. Elizabeth and I have so much to be grateful for.
And all of you know about some of the challenges we have faced in my family. But there came a time, a few months ago, when Elizabeth and I had to decide, in the quiet of a hospital room, after many hours of tests and getting pretty bad news – what we were going to do with our lives.
And we made our decision. That we were not going to go quietly into the night – that we were going to stand and fight for what we believe in.
As Elizabeth and I have campaigned across America, I’ve come to a better understanding of what that decision really meant – and why we made it.
Earlier this year, I spoke at Riverside Church in New York, where, forty years ago, Martin Luther King gave a historic speech. I talked about that speech then, and I want to talk about it today. Dr. King was tormented by the way he had kept silent for two years about the Vietnam War.
He was told that if he spoke out he would hurt the civil rights movement and all that he had worked for – but he could not take it any more – instead of decrying the silence of others – he spoke the truth about himself. Read the rest of this entry »
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The latest version of the FISA bill with the stupid and unprecedented Telco immunization provision is in the Senate Judiciary Committee. Senator Leahy has vowed to strip that out. Senators Dodd, Biden and Obama have vowed to filibuster if it’s not. Senator Clinton as previously reported likes Telco cash too much to do anything to keep the government from wiretapping everything you do or say on the phone or over the Internet.
