Dennis Kucinich Wakes Up America
 Wednesday, August 27th, 2008  by Connie T.

At the Democratic National Convention (DNC), Ohio Congressman Dennis Kucinich gave a goosebumps-inducing speech best summarized by the phrase "Wake up, America." Here is a moving portion of his delivery. You can watch the full video today on our forum, where we post a video of the day, every day, just for you.

Wake up, America. In 2001 the oil companies, the war contractors, and the NeoCon artists seized the economy and added 4 trillion dollars of unproductive spending to the national debt.

We now pay four times more for defense, three times more for gasoline and home heating oil, and twice what we pay for healthcare.

Millions of Americans have lost their jobs, their homes, their healthcare, their pension; trillions of dollars for an unnecessary war paid for with borrowed money.

Tens of billions of dollars in cash and weapons disappeared into thin air, at the cost of the lives of our troops and innocent Iraqis while all the President's oil men are maneuvering to grab Iraq's oil.

Borrowed money to bomb bridges in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Pakistan; no money to rebuild bridges in America. Money to start a hot war with Iran, now we have another Cold War with Russia.

And the American economy has become a game of Russian Roulette.

Now, if there were an Olympics for misleading, mismanaging, and misappropriating, this Administration would take the Gold. World records for violations of national and international law. They want another four-year term to continue to alienate our allies, spend our children's inheritance, and hollow out the economy.

We cannot afford another Republican administration. Wake up, America.

The insurance companies took over healthcare. Wake up, America.

The pharmaceutical companies took over drug pricing. Wake up, America.

The speculators took over Wall Street. Wake up, America, they want your social security.

Wake up, America. Multinational corporations took over our trade policies, factories are closing, good-paying jobs are being lost. Wake up, America.

We went into Iraq for oil. The oil companies want more. War against Iran will mean $10 a gallon gasoline. The oil administration - they want to drill more - into your wallet. Wake up, America.

Contractors want more, those war contractors want more.

In Iran, war will cost 5-10 trillion dollars.

Now, this Administration can tap our phones; they can't tap our creative spirit.

They can open our mail, but they can't open economic opportunities. They can track our every move, but they lost track of the economy while the cost of food, gasoline, and electricity skyrockets.

Now they have skillfully played our post-9/11 fears, and they've allowed the few to profit at the expense of the many. Every day, we get the color orange, while the oil companies, the insurance companies, the speculators, the war contractors get the color green. Wake up, America.

One of the best phrases in his speech, besides "Wake up America," of course, was "up with peace." Well, we've signed Dennis Kucinich's petition to Congress to exercise our Constitutional authority to hold President George W. Bush accountable for his actions throughout this Administration...have you? On September 10th, Kucinich will deliver 1 million signatures for impeachment to Congress. And we'll keep you updated!

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