DNC Day 2, Take 6 - Dick Gephardt edition
Written by: Beck
He opens with the "Worse job creation record since Herbert Hoover," and moves right into shipping jobs over seas. Come on Dick, I know you're the "Labor Senator," but your facts are all backwards. They might have been right 8 months ago, but they ain't any more--because Bush's policies are working to create jobs at record breaking levels. Record. Breaking. Think about it.
I can already tell that this entire speech is going to be about labor. Should be pleasantly boring.
Also, for the first time, I just noticed that Gephardt's hair is grey now, no longer blonde. He's finally starting to show his age.
Update: Jobs, health care, rising college costs, jobs, health care, rising college costs, jobs, health care, jobs, jobs, American families, life is a never ending scramble of credit card debt, scramble, scramble, discipline, respect, jobs, someone pass me a tissue, there's blood coming out of my ear.
Update: "If a mother doesn't have medical insurance, we all pay the price when she shows up at the hospital." Well, OK, sure, but if she
does have health insurance and it's government provided, we still all pay the price. So, uh, what exactly was your point again?
Update: Gephardt's talking about how he achieved so much from a background of so little (parents a teamster and a secretary) and at the exact same time says that the government needs to ensure that everyone has opportunity to excel... I mean, the government didn't help Dick climb his way to the top, he did it by merit of his own extremely hard work and dedication. How can someone who has worked so hard advocate government nanny-state social welfare at the same time? Literally, in one paragraph he suggests that opportunity doesn't exist in America unless the government provides it, and then in the very next paragraph explains that he himself worked hard to create his own opportunities.