My thanks to gizmo1979 for a heads-up on this earlier (
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x5140822 ). Unfortunately I didn't see his post in time to catch the program, and I haven't been able to find a full transcript online (though you can order them from ABC), but the DNC press release at
http://releases.usnewswire.com/GetRelease.asp?id=55436 has the comments I'm most interested in:
On the Democratic Agenda:
"The truth is the Democrats are the party of moral values. We are altruists and believe we are all in it together and have a community to sustain. The President's attack on Social Security wasn't just about money and neoconservative nonsense. It was about a fundamental attack on the notion that America is one community and we have responsibility for each other. When we talk about moral values... 67% of America believes that it is a moral value that everybody has health insurance; 60% of Americans believe it's immoral for the federal government to tell families what to do in their personal decisions -- decisions that have to do with their personal lives. So, most Americans agree with Democratic moral values.
"...Honesty in government will be one of them; balancing the budget and restoring jobs another; a health care system that benefits everybody a third one. Strong education system to give opportunity to all Americans again....We believe that we ought to have a decent public education system and the president ought to stop taking money away from it...Balance the budget after the most fiscally imprudent Administration in my lifetime, then restore the social safety net for middle class Americans that is being shredded by an Administration who says one thing and does something else...We want ethics legislation and campaign finance reform and health care reform. We will be the party of change, and we're serious about this and Democrats will have to live by these changes just like Republicans. We want fundamental reform in the United States."
<snip>
On President Bush's Failed Strategy in Iraq:
"We cannot have a permanent commitment to a failed strategy, and George Bush has a failed strategy for Iraq. When you don't tell the truth when you go into Iraq, it's unlikely it will be a successful program... The president has no plan. The third piece is we're clearly not going to stay there forever. The president seems to think the choices are only between cutting and running and staying forever. They're not."
On the White House Leak Case:
"This is not so much about Scooter Libby and Karl Rove. This is about the fact that the President didn't tell us the truth when we went to Iraq, and all these guys involved in it, it's a huge cover-up. That's what they're in trouble for. The deed that led to it is an attack on the President's dishonesty over the Iraq question. This is all -- came to pass because of Joseph Wilson...
<snip>
A lot more there (with some typos -- this was rushed out), but those four paragraphs are all I can quote here. (I think that's all I'm allowed to quote. If there are different rules for press releases, especially for the DNC -- if I can quote all the text here -- would a moderator please let me know? Thanks!)
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