Deval Patrick: Just Words Speech 10/15/06

Deval Patrick: Just Words Speech 10/15/06 Boston Common

I will not engage in the politics of fear. Because fear is poisonous. All through history it has been used to hold back progress and limit fairness. Only hope defeats fear. It always has. At a candidates forum last week, the moderator asked each of us to say something nice about the other candidates. Kerry Healey rather grudgingly said, Well, he can give a good speech. She would know this not because she has ever attended a speech of mine but because she has them filmed by this fine fellow here. But her dismissive point, and I hear it from her staff, is that all I have to offer is words.

Just words.

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal.

Just words.

We have nothing to fear but fear itself.

Just words.

Ask not what your country can do for you. Ask what you can do for your country.

Just words.

I have a dream.

Just words.

Let me say it before you do: I am no Dr. King, no President Kennedy, no FDR, no Thomas Jefferson. But I do know that the right words, spoken from the heart with conviction, with a vision of a better place and a faith in the unseen, are a call to action.

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[laborgrunt]

Hahahha, i like your post. Lets hope that you are a time traveler that came back from 2012!

[howardtomlinson]

RE-ELECT OBAMA 2012!!!!!!!!

[whotaughtyou]

EDDIE MURPHY

[meccaturbo]

@tarikur, you are an idiot.

[meccaturbo]

@LarrytheLumberjack, he ain't no nigger, he's a JIGABOO...

[LarrytheLumberjack]

To bad somebody didn't shoot this worthless NIGGER in the back of the head. What a  spic loving coon. SEIG HEIL!!!!

[customstratguy]

All these democrates are nothing but SOCIALISTIC POLITICAL PARASITES, and need to be shut down, before we are all waiting in line at the hospital, behind the fucking illegal imigrants, and the country is totally screwed!!!

Real national debt is 57 TRILLION with a fucking T !!!! How is this possible??? WAKE UP AMERICA... before it`s totally gone!

[sassygirljulia]

This guy doesn't have a prayer of re-election. People in Mass H-A-T-E him!

[joikido]

I think Mike Huckabee said it best, "Jesus was too smart to run for public office"

[monkfishstuff]

Somebody told me that they voted for Obama because he was "cute"! Is that what the young people of America want? A cute president? Or a hardworking President? Actions speak louder than borrowed words...

[monkfishstuff]

Obama has promised a lot, and i don't think he can deliver... The Obama fans need to take a hard look at their candidate.