【正文】 terprise by asking for 60 days’ notice of plant closings, and that’s wrong. We’ve been isolated. We fly our flags on holidays and we plod along trying to make it better for ourselves and our children and our parents. Please don’t think me ungrateful. We buy clothes at the budget stores and we have them fray and fade and stretch in the first wash. We’re going to tell how the cow ate the cabbage.I got a letter last week from a young mother in Lorena, Texas, and I wanna read part of it to you. Clorox in the well when the frog fell in. I can still hear the sound of the dominoes clicking on the marble slab my daddy had found for a tabletop.s going to cut me down to size.m delighted to be here with you this evening, because after listening to George Bush all these years, I figured you needed to know what a real Texas accent sounds like.Twelve years ago Barbara Jordan, another Texas woman, Barbara made the keynote address to this convention, and two women in a hundred and sixty years is about par for the course.But, if you give us a chance, we can perform. After all, Ginger Rogers did everything that Fred Astaire did. She just did it backwards and in high heels.I want to announce to this Nation that in a little more than 100 days, the ReaganMeeseDeaverNofzigerPoindexterNorthWeinbergerWattGorsuchLavelleStockmanHaigBorkNoriegaGeorge Bush [era] will be over!You know, tonight I feel a little like I did when I played basketball in the 8th grade. I thought I looked real cute in my uniform. And then I heard a boy yell from the bleachers, Make that basket, Birdlegs!And my greatest fear is that same guy is somewhere out there in the audience tonight, and he39。 I can remember summer nights when we’d put down what we called the Baptist pallet, and we listened to the grownups talk. about mama puttin39。 And it came from people who were living their lives as best they could. And that’s what we’re going to do tonight. I pray my kids don’t have a growth spurt from August to December, so I don’t have to buy new jeans. We don’t take vacations and we don’t go out to eat.re the people you see every day in the grocery stores, and we obey the laws and pay our taxes. Their political theory is “divide and conquer.” They’ve suggested time and time again that what is of interest to one group of Americans is not of interest to any one else. Well, that’s wrong!They told working mothers it’s all their fault their families are falling apart because they had to go to work to keep their kids in jeans and tennis shoes and college.We want answers and their answer is that something is wrong with you. They pit one group against the other. We feel forgotten. Well, the fact is that we are not an isolated piece of their puzzle.We believe our kids deserve public schools where students can learn and teachers can teach. We believe that America is still a country where there is more to life than just a constant strug