A vote for America
Although it often seemed that it would never arrive, Election Day is finally upon us. Most of what can be said about the choice that we are presented with in 2004 has already been said. It has been left in our hands. Will we stand up for the ideals of progress and hope and take back our country? I believe that we will. I believe that we must.
I do not run for the presidency merely to oppose any man but to propose new policies. I run because I am convinced that this country is on a perilous course and because I have such strong feelings about what must be done, and I feel that I’m obliged to do all that I can.
I run for the presidency because I want the Democratic Party and the United States of America to stand for hope instead of despair, for reconciliation of men instead of the growing risk of world war.
I run because it is now unmistakably clear that we can change these disastrous, divisive policies only by changing the men who are now making them.
I do not lightly dismiss the dangers and the difficulties of challenging an incumbent President. But these are not ordinary times and this is not an ordinary election.
At stake is not simply the leadership of our party and even our country. It is our right to moral leadership of this planet.
- Robert F. Kennedy, 1968
