He said,
Thomas Jefferson believed that to preserve the very foundations of our nation, we would need dramatic change from time to time. Well, my fellow citizens, this is our time. Let us embrace it.I can't find an audio or video link to that speech at the moment (I'm a YouTube search novice. Help anyone?), but whenever I hear a clip of that, I get chills. I was there for it too, and though it was a bit muffled miles away on the Washington Mall, it was powerful then.
More recently, Barack Obama has used that line. In New Hampshire last month, he said,
"What's hard, what demands courage, what's truly audacious, is to hope," he said. "People are hungry for something new. They are interested in being part of something larger than petty politics we have seen in the last few years. This is our time - a new generation that is preparing to lead."
A good speech can change people. As I mentioned, I was lucky enough to be in Washington on 1/20/93. I was also lucky enough to be at the Fleet Center for Barack's memorable speech in 2004.
Today is Deval Patrick's time. It's time to start out on a new path to hope, a new path to prosperity, and a new path to true equality. I hope his speech does that - his Convention Speech was solid, but I hope this surpasses that.
Good luck, Governor Patrick.
p.s. - I'm baaaaaaaaaaack.......
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Osama Bin Laden's plan on 9/11/01 was to provoke the United States to attack Iran. It is clearly mapped in his intentions in which he wanted to establish a Sunni Islamic rule over the Moslem countries, which is listed as his first priority. Why else would he attack U.S. when a right-winged president had control over a Republican congress. He was trying to induce an attack on the Shia country of Iran, since it is the only way he would have been able to topple the Islamic clerics in Iran and establish his Sunni Islamic rule over all the Islamic countries.
The U.S. government states that he was trying to put pressure on America to withdraw its troops from Saudi Arabia, which is listed in his intentions as his second priority. They try to brush off his plan to establish a Sunni Islamic rule over Moslem countries as an apocalyptic vision.
According to the theory, his plan was to induce U.S. to nuclear attack Iran (since it is the only way U.S. would be able to topple the clerics - which is even more confirmed after Hezbollah's performance last summer). This would in turn increase terrorism in the U.S. from the over 1 million Iranians living there, which would in turn create enough pressure to cause U.S. to withdraw from the Arabian peninsula, and the middle east in general. Once U.S. leaves, the Saudi kings and princes are already prepared to leave as well (with all their wealth stored in U.S. and European banks - in the same manner as the Shah of Iran did after the Iranians began to revolt in 1979). After the religious fundamentalists establish rule in Saudi Arabia, they would be able to attack the now weakened Iran, and establish the Sunni rule over the Islamic countries.
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