“Mind you, it does make me wanna ralph now that I read it... and SURE, I'm so glad all you repubs like to quote Democrats ;-P

EXCERPTS OF REMARKS PREPARED FOR DELIVERY AT THE 2004 Republican
National Convention ON THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 2, 2004

***Governor Pataki will introduce President George W. Bush ***

Excerpts from prepared remarks of Governor George E. Pataki

"On that terrible day, a nation became a neighborhood. All Americans became New Yorkers.

"So, what I've wanted to do for a long time was say thank you -- in
front of our country, and with our children watching: Thank you America, from the very bottom of New York's heart."

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"Every four years people say 'This is the most important election of our lifetime.' This time it's true."

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"I want to help voters compare President Bush's record of achievement with Senator Kerry's. That way they'll be able to see the difference,
which is that President Bush has a record of achievement."

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"He inherited a recession, and then came September 11th. But George Bush said he would turn around the economy and create new jobs.

He said he'd do it. And he did."

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"I thank God that on September 11th, we had a president who didn't wring his hands and wonder what America had done wrong to deserve this attack.

"I thank God we had a president who understood that America was
attacked, not for what we had done wrong, but for what we do right."

* * *

"On September 11th Al Qaeda attacked again. But this time they made a terrible mistake.

"There's one thing they didn't bank on.

"They didn't bank on George W. Bush."


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"Senator Kerry says, "America should go to war not when it wants to go to war but when it has to go to war."

"Well, excuse me, Senator: the fire fighters and cops who ran into those burning towers and died on September 11th didn't want to go to war, they were heroes in a war they didn't even know existed.

"America did not choose this war.

"But we have a President who chooses to win it."

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"This is no ordinary time. The stakes could not be higher.

"Fate has handed our generation a grave new threat to freedom.

And fortune has given us a leader who will defend that freedom.

"This is no ordinary time. And George W. Bush is no ordinary leader."



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Note to Editors: In preparing his remarks Governor Pataki recalled a book he had read by former Harvard professor Doris Kearns Goodwin entitled "No Ordinary Time" (No Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt: The Home Front in World War II). It is the story of another great
freedom fighter, and his leadership during another time of great national challenge. Doris Kearns Goodwin's title came from First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt's speech to the 1940 Democratic National Convention.”

“so ya don't believe I'm psychic and know this, eh??”

“So the GOP is putting all there money on drumming 9/11 into the collective adlemind of America?

To be fair, what did the Dems use over and over, ad nauseum?”

“LOL! Fear is paying the bills, yes?

When did DC go on code Orange at a cost of 750,000/wk? How much does it cost for The Dept. of Homeland Humor to fight every single request for asylum, including appealing decisions?

Didn't some braniac say the war in iraq would pay for itself? We must be getting rich!”