"It's great to give positive speeches and talk about hope, but this speech, delivered at the DNC, is the hard-hitting speech that Dems need to give." -- Jenni Charrier

Dennis Kucinich, truthout.org

Submitted by Evergreene Digest Contributing Editor Jenni Charrier

It's Election Day 2008. We Democrats are giving America a wake-up call. Wake up, America. In 2001, the oil companies, the war contractors and the neo-con artists seized the economy and have 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 paid for health care.

Millions of Americans have lost their jobs, their homes, their health care, their pensions. Trillions of dollars for an unnecessary war paid 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 oilmen are maneuvering to grab Iraq's oil.

Text and video...