Andrew Shepard's Speech From The American President
Andrew Shepard's Speech From The American President
The last couple of months under Rumson has suggests that being president of this country was to a certain extent about character, and although I have not been willing to engage in his attacks on me, I’ve been here three years and three days, and I can tell you without hesitation; being president of this country, is entirely about character.
For the record, yes, I am a card carrying member of the ACLU, but the more important question is, why aren’t you Bob? Now this is an organization whose sole purpose is to defend the Bill of Rights, so it naturally begs to question, why would a senator, his party’s most powerful spokesman and a candidate for president, choose to reject upholding the Constitution? Now if you can answer that question folks, then you’re smarter than I am, because I didn’t understand it until, a few hours ago.
America isn’t easy. America is advanced citizenship. You’ve got to want it bad, cause It’s gonna put up a fight. It’s gonna say, “You want free speech? Let’s see you acknowledge a man whose words make your blood boil, whose standing center stage and advocating at the top of his lungs that which you would spend a lifetime apposing at the top of yours. You want to claim this land as the land of the free then the symbol of your country cannot just be a flag! ” The symbol also has to be one of it’s citizens’ exercising his right to burn that flag in protests. Now show me that, defend that, celebrate that in your classrooms. Then you can stand up and sing about the land of the free.
I’ve known Bob Rumsin for years, and I’ve been operating under the assumption of the reason Bob devotes so much and time and energy to shouting at the rain, is that he simply didn’t get it. Well I was wrong Bob’s problem isn’t that he doesn’t get it, Bob’s problem is that he can’t sell it. We have serious problems to solve, and we need serious people to solve them. And whatever your particular problem is, I
The last couple of months under Rumson has suggests that being president of this country was to a certain extent about character, and although I have not been willing to engage in his attacks on me, I’ve been here three years and three days, and I can tell you without hesitation; being president of this country, is entirely about character.
For the record, yes, I am a card carrying member of the ACLU, but the more important question is, why aren’t you Bob? Now this is an organization whose sole purpose is to defend the Bill of Rights, so it naturally begs to question, why would a senator, his party’s most powerful spokesman and a candidate for president, choose to reject upholding the Constitution? Now if you can answer that question folks, then you’re smarter than I am, because I didn’t understand it until, a few hours ago.
America isn’t easy. America is advanced citizenship. You’ve got to want it bad, cause It’s gonna put up a fight. It’s gonna say, “You want free speech? Let’s see you acknowledge a man whose words make your blood boil, whose standing center stage and advocating at the top of his lungs that which you would spend a lifetime apposing at the top of yours. You want to claim this land as the land of the free then the symbol of your country cannot just be a flag! ” The symbol also has to be one of it’s citizens’ exercising his right to burn that flag in protests. Now show me that, defend that, celebrate that in your classrooms. Then you can stand up and sing about the land of the free.
I’ve known Bob Rumsin for years, and I’ve been operating under the assumption of the reason Bob devotes so much and time and energy to shouting at the rain, is that he simply didn’t get it. Well I was wrong Bob’s problem isn’t that he doesn’t get it, Bob’s problem is that he can’t sell it. We have serious problems to solve, and we need serious people to solve them. And whatever your particular problem is, I