Reply #3: Not to mention that John Kerry also used it in 2004

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I remember because I didn't think much of it at the time. Here's what I said then:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x1635765#1636175

"Let America be America" is an awful choice.

Bob Dole used the phrase in his 1980 primary campaign. Pat Buchanan has used it in several contexts, including when he was running for the Reform Party nomination.

Conservatives have regularly used it when calling for cutting taxes, downsizing the federal government, strict constructionism, telling off China, and invading Iraq.


http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x531509#531572

Text of Pat Buchanan 's speech announcing plans to seek the Reform Party presidential nomination: We need a new Supreme Court where only constitutionalists need apply, a court that will respect both state's rights and human rights, that will begin to undo the damage done this nation by judicial aggressions, beginning with that abomination they call Roe v. Wade. . . . As our fathers threw off a tyranny of kings, let us throw off this tyranny of judges and let America be America again.


Bob Dole for President 1980 Campaign Brochure: "My concern is to let America be America again…to get
away from building the federal budget and the federal bureaucracy and get back to building the nation."