(2004-09-03) Bush Convention Speech Transcript

Transcript of George W Bush Republican Party National Convention speech.

Top accomplishments:

• No Child Left Behind - Educating Kids

• Medicare Prescription Drugs benefit

• Tax Cut-s

Future

• New Economy - My plan begins with providing the security and opportunity of a growing economy. We now compete in a global market that provides new buyers for our goods, but new competition for our workers. To create more jobs in America, America must be the best place in the world to do business. To create jobs, my plan will encourage investment and expansion by restraining federal spending, reducing regulation and making the tax relief permanent.

• HealthCare - We will offer a tax credit to encourage small businesses and their employees to set up Health Savings Account-s and provide direct help for low-income Americans to purchase them.

• In an ownership society (Property Rights), more people will own their health plans and have the confidence of owning a piece of their retirement. We'll always keep the promise of Social Security for our older workers.

His opponent: Senator John Kerry opposed Medicare reform and Health Savings Account-s. After supporting my education reforms, he now wants to dilute them. He opposes legal and medical liability reform. He opposed reducing the marriage penalty, opposed doubling the child credit, opposed lowering income taxes for all who pay them.

Because a caring society will value its weakest members, we must make a place for the unborn child.

This election will also determine how America responds to the continuing danger of terrorism, and you know where I stand... And we are working to advance liberty in the broader Middle East, because freedom will bring a future of hope and the peace we all want. And we will prevail... Today, the government of a free Afghanistan is fighting terror. Pakistan is capturing terrorist leaders. Saudi Arabia is making raids and arrests. Libya is dismantling its weapons programs. The army of a free Iraq is fighting for freedom. And more than three-quarters of AlQaeda's key members and associates have been detained or killed.

I believe in the transformational power of liberty. The wisest use of American strength is to advance Freedom. As the citizens of Afghanistan and Iraq seize the moment, their example will send a message of hope throughout a vital region. Palestinians will hear the message that democracy and reform are within their reach and so is peace with our good friend, Israel. Young Women across the Middle East will hear the message that their day of equality and justice is coming. Young men will hear the message that national progress and dignity are found in liberty, not tyranny and terror.

And now we have reached a time for hope. This young century will be liberty's century. By promoting liberty abroad, we will build a safer world. By encouraging liberty at home, we will build a more hopeful America.

Overall theme: still a Compassionate Conservative who will make the world safer. A great message, but the last 4 years have contradicted both points.