Democrat Gabby Giffords, whose career in Congress was cut short after she survived an assassination attempt that ended with six dead and 12 others wounded in a 2011 mass shooting in Tucson, spoke last night at the DNC.
Giffords tied her own fight to recover from her injuries to the importance of fighting against the Trump administration.
“Confronted by despair, I’m summoned hope,” Giffords said. “Confronted by paralysis and aphasia, I’m responded with grit and determination.”
Giffords talked about the struggle to recover her ability to speak.
“Words once came easily but today, I struggle to speak,” Giffords said. “But I have not lost my voice. America needs all of us to speak out, even when you have to fight to find the words.”
She ended her brief speech with a call to elect Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden.
“We can protect our families, our future,” Giffords said. “We can vote. We can be on the right side of history. We must elect Joe Biden. He was there for me. He’ll be there for you, too. Join us in this vote. Vote! Vote! Vote!”
Giffords’ husband, former NASA astronaut Mark Kelly, is leading in the polls as he challenges appointed U.S. Sen. Martha McSally in Arizona this year.
This article appears in Aug 20-26, 2020.
Sorry gabby but there is something wrong with Joe. he can’t seem to tell us who he is. Or what he is.
By the way most of us believe we can’t vote, vote, vote. The law says we each get one vote. Let’s try to follow the law.
Kamala harris will do just fine when she takes over for joe.
Bullshit! She’ll simply continue his miserable neo-liberal policies – more war, more military spending, more minorities in prison, no universal healthcare, capitulations to the right wing assholes in Congress. She’s a corporate shill for the goddamned Republican party. She and the scumbag Biden are total disasters. Bankers and hedge fund managers are coming in their shorts just dreaming about them.
If you listened to Joe last night and think somethings wrong, then you need to see someone. The problem is with you. Even fox entertainment called it a homerun and proof there was nothing wrong with him. But then, for today’s republicans, accusations trump facts and logic anyway.
More bullshit from you. One canned speech doesn’t negate four decades of reactionary militaristic pro-Wall Street neo-liberal grovelling and incompetence. An appeal to Fox Entertainment as proof of Joe Biden’s bona fides shows how shallow your thinking is.
Google “what’s wrong with Joe?” There are hours of laughs.
Quoting Fox now, are we? You are too funny.