8/31/2004: 9:50 pm: Mark Kilmerstuff & fiddlesticks

More speakers…

  • Elizabeth Hasselbeck of ABC’s The View, said the announcer, though the caption says she’s on a Style channel show. And that she’s a Breast Cancer Research Advocate.

  • Her mother. Her sister, both of her grandmothers. They “found victory in the battle against breast cancer.”
  • “Fortunately, we have somebody at the highest level fighting for a cure…” And three-quarters of a billion dollars to assist research.
  • Secretary of Education Rodney Paige, “the President’s point-man in seeing that no child gets left behind.
  • Kids who pass through lousy schools “are robbed of their life’s potential, and so are we.”
  • An anecdote. He thought Brown v. Board would promote equality in education, but it didn’t. It opened the doors, but kept things unequal. Until President Bush came along and began to fix things.
  • “Support for education under President Bush has gone up 36%.” This, he says, is “more than under President Clinton.”
  • And, ironically, the camera panned to a youngster playing a handheld video game.
  • Choice: “To elect a true reformer with proven results, not a Johnny-come-lately with promises.”
  • With a vid of a St. Louis school. Talking up “No child left behind”

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    : 9:12 pm: Mark Kilmerstuff & fiddlesticks

    More Speakers…

  • Senator Sam Brownback (R-Kansas). He’s talking about the pandemic of AIDS. The Presidents “record levels of support to fight the disease.”

  • It’s a good move, having one of the most vocal pro-life Senators discussing the important AIDS research.
  • “From the child in the womb to the mother carrying her, this nation and this President will fight for you. Why? Because each one is wonderfully made, and what we do to the least of these, we do to our Creator.”
  • Jackie Velasquez is a popular Latin music artist singing a Latin song in Spanish. Nice song. Cultures and compassion. I c.
  • Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist. I saw him walk into the hall a few hours ago — on camera, of course. A woman from his State’s delegation made him lean into the chairs and give her a hug.
  • His dad told him to put an MD after his name on his office door to remind him that, elected official or not, he is an MD and must work every day to help people.
  • Just like President Bush. Health care. George Bush has “righted that wrong,” putting prescription drugs onto Medicare. And the health care bill, and the “Prescription Drug Discount Card.”
  • Democrats “would rather play politics than help patients.” He gave the toll free to call to get the card: “Tell ‘em Dr. Bill Frist prescribed it.”
  • “Our opponents have a way of confusion compassion and dependency.”
  • “I’ll tell you what Senator Kerry’s prescription would be: take a few tax increases and don’t call me in the morning.”
  • A shot at John Edwards and “personal injury trial lawyers.” The high price of “liability insurance” for doctors. It’s discouraging doctors from wanting their “children to go into medicine.”
  • “Let me be clear: you can never be pro-patient and pro-trial lawyer.”
  • “By his votes and by his actions, he [Kerry] is the Dr. No of tort reform.”
  • And now adult vrs. embryonic stem cell research. Kerry “makes it sound like the President has put a sweeping ban on stem cell research. I challenge you tonight, Mr. Kerry: What ban? Shame on you.”
  • I’ve been told that this speech sounds like something you’d hear in the well of the Senate. (”Boring,” she says.) And that’s why the networks are carrying Arnold.
  • But he’s getting in some great shots at Kerry (and Edwards) while praising the President mightily.

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    : 8:46 pm: Mark Kilmerstuff & fiddlesticks

    More speakers…

  • Here she is… Miss America 1983, Erika Harold. What a smile.

  • Faith-based initiatives. “These initiatives turn faith into power.”
  • She went to a hardcore prison to “reaffirm the dignity of prisoners” using a faith-based program.
  • It’s a good story, and a pitch for the President’s program to spend a lot of money rehabilitating prisoners. Erika, the private sector can do this! We do not need government as a charity.
  • Former NYPD Detective Steven McDonald, paralyzed from the neck down by a criminal’s bullet: “Every day, I live to serve. And I serve to live.”
  • “I served with honor as a United States Navy corpsman.” (Applause line) And a New York city police officer. (applause)
  • “The Federal government is no longer discriminating against charitable groups with a religious mission. In fact, it is welcoming them as partners. I am proud to be an American led by a President who makes sure that the promise of America is not the privilege of a few, but the birthright of all.”
  • “And to the Democrats who put principle above politics… I say we need President George Bush to fulfill this promise.”

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