Actually, Senator, you're not the party of FDR and you're not the party of Kennedy, and that IS the center of the issue

And I'm here to tell you you WON'T keep america safe.

It was FDR who authorized the mass bombing of enemy cities on two different continents, including some cities which belonged to our allies, and were filled with allied people.
Nantes, and L'Orient, for instance.
It was FDR who authorized Manhattan, a project he understood would slaughter thousands of civilians at a minimum, to protect our service men's lives.

It was Kennedy, who during the administration of Eisenhower campaigned on the existence of a missile gap with the USSR, who insisted on Titan, Atlas and Minuteman to correct what turned out to be a nonexistent defect in our arsenal.
It was Kennedy who began Vietnam, and saw to Diem and his brother.
It was Kennedy who blockaded an entire nation in a pure act of war to intimidate another power

All undertaken to protect the nation. We might argue their results, but not their intent.

And then your party became other.

It is your party which thought Ho Chi Minh was the head of the United Mine Workers of America and could be sent 'messages' via variable F-4 density employment, and bargained with while we bombed Vietnam day and night.

It was your party and Church Commission which ended any function the CIA might have which could have helped us effectively in Afghanistan, or in the Sudan, in the 90's

It was your party which did nothing while the ideology of the Wahabbis and Khomeinsts spread worldwide.

It was your party which cut off funds to Vietnam including the ability of our air force to simply HELP them.

It was your party which stood by in silence, inaction and fear as the Iran we know today came into existence

It was your party which was powerless as our people were taken captive there

It was your party in 1994 which signed the agreement with North Korea which gave them the time to develop their nuclear program in secret, while your party naively touted the treaty the NoKo's signed just for that purpose.


It was NOT your party or your policies which ended the cold war, it was the party and policies your party opposed bitterly and with sneering contempt.

It is your party which won't allow deployment, and will cut the funds for weapons which would protect our civilians and our cities, and harm no humans. And your party has backed this position since as long as can be remembered.

It is your party which is afraid to be disliked around the world, by people who hate, envy or simply don't understand us to begin with, if we act in our own interest.

It is your party which believes Al Qaeda is a figment of Afghanistan and the Northwest Territories and if that defect is corrected there, the effort is complete

It is your party and you who wants to go back to police investigations to jail organized international religious institutions which act in concert to kill americans en masse, and go back to the policies of the 90's which you lauded.

I am sorry Sen Obama, but you are not the party of FDR and Kennedy anymore, and you won't keep america safe.