○  名人演讲：a tale of two cities  ○

ersity as democrats. we're grateful for it. we don't have to manufacture it the way the republicans will next month in dallas, by propping up mannequin delegates on the convention floor. but while we're proud of this diversity as democrats, we pay a price for it. the different people that we represent have different points of view. and sometimes they compete and even debate, and even argue. that's what our primaries were all about. but now the primaries are over and it is time when we pick our candidates and our platform here to lock arms and move into this campaign together. if you need any more inspiration to put some small part of your own differences aside to create this consensus, all you need to do is to reflect on what the republican policy of divide and cajole has done to this land since 1980.

now the president has asked us to judge him on whether or not he's fulfilled the promise he made four years ago. i believe that as democrats, we ought to accept that challenge. and, just for a moment let us consider what he has said and what he's done. inflation is down since 1980. but not because of the supply- side miracle promised to us by the president. inflation was reduced the old-fashioned way, with a recession, the worst since 1932. we could have brought inflation down that way. how did he do it? fifty-five thousand bankruptcies. two years of massive unemployment. two hundred thousand farmers and ranchers forced off the land. more homeless than at any time since the great depression in 1932. more hungry, in this nation of enormous affluence, the united states of america, more hungry. more poor - most of them women - and he paid one more thing, a nearly $200 billion deficit threatening our future.

now we must make the american people understand this deficit because they don't. the president's deficit is a direct and dramatic repudiation of his promise to balance our budget by 1983. how large is it? the deficit is the largest in the history of this un

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