I will have a Vice President ... I will have a Secretary of Defense ... I will appoint an Attorney General ... "I will have a Deputy Assistant Secretary of Agriculture for Marketing and Consumer Services ..." Note: No mention of a DCI or an intelligence director. Did I mention values? ... jobs, jobs, jobs ... jobs blah blah jobs blah blah jobs blah blah jobs ... ... and not so much as a word linking jobs with education. Jobs are about people, not policy, not process. Did I mention values? NEO: Can you fly that thing?
TRINITY: Not yet.
TANK: Operator.
TRINITY: Tank, I need a pilot program for a military B- 212 helicopter.
TRINITY: Hurry!
TRINITY: Let's go. He seems deeply confused about foreign relations. First he says, "to protect the American people, fundamental American values ... is the only justification for going to war." Then he talks about the importance of not having "to go it alone in the world." How does he expect other nations to join with us in the protection of American values, if our president is on record that the United States is unwilling to go to war to protect fundamental British values, or French values, or Italian values, or German values, or Spanish values, or Iraqi values, or Pakistani values, or Canadian values? Did I mention values? I will immediately reform the intelligence system. How, please? I will fight a smarter, more effective war on terror. How, please? For a man of details and nuance, he is rather short on both here. Did I mention values? We need to lead a global effort against nuclear proliferation – to keep the most dangerous weapons in the world out of the most dangerous hands in the world. Bandwagoning, motherhood, and apple pie. Sam Nunn and Richard Lugar have been working on this for years now. "In the past decade, the Nunn-Lugar has spent $4bn to help former Soviet states eliminate or secure weapons of mass destruction. Its successes range from dismantling one of the world's largest biological weapons production facilities in Kazakhstan to deactivating more than 6,000 nuclear warheads spread across Russia and the former Soviet Union." ... balanced budget ... balanced budget ... balanced budget ... I will immediately implement the recommendations of the 9/11 commission. Does he have any idea how much it will cost to physically inspect every container ship? http://www.machinevisiononline.org/public/articles/archivedetails.cfm?id=1419 "Some 200 million intermodal cargo containers carry an estimated $12.5 trillion in cargo by ship, rail and truck each year. Today, only 2 percent or of cargo containers are inspected at US ports, and of those inspected, the containers’ contents match the manifest only about 30 percent of the time. Experts estimate that fielding the necessary cargo inspection systems will cost billions." Did I mention values? technology ... will create the good-paying jobs of the future. Um, no. Then he rants about protectionism on the jobs front -- keep jobs in the US, "a fair playing field." He seems genuinely dedicated to protecting every single steelworker's job in the country, yet he is also firmly dedicated to "move America forward." Come again? All Americans will be able to buy less expensive prescription drugs from countries like Canada. ... What if we find a breakthrough to cure AIDS? Is there an official list of "countries like Canada?" Is it published by the Canadian government, or by the US? Do the Canadians also publish a list of "countries like the United States"? Will Americans be able to buy their AIDS drugs from South Africa, too? Does he have any idea how all of this actually works? I want an America that relies on its own ingenuity and innovation -- not the Saudi royal family. So, Indian ingenuity and innovation can "shove it", I suppose? Did I mention values? John Kerry's Acceptance Speech | 
