i look like ralph reed and i think like al from. but i always say it could be worse. it could have been the other way around. the truth is, thinking like al from has been the honor and privilege of a lifetime. and while luckily i'm the only one cursed to look like ralph reed, the world is a vastly better place because over the years so many democrats in this room, in this town and in this country have come to think lake al from. [applause] we take it for granted but we should not forget just how hard it was to try to breathe new life into an old party when al and they got started. in the 1980's congresswoman pat schroder used to tell audiences democrats need to do three things to win back the white house. unfortunately, nobody knows what they are. well, al from knew. he understood that to lead a party out of the political wilderness would take a different kind of democrat. today we have a different kind of democratic party because of what al from and that great new democratic president bill clinton accomplished. if you have front what the political wilderness waslike

this man i didn't go looking for religion, it was a surprise for me as well ralph reed said at the head in of one of the largest evangelical organizations in the country said of two years ago that if you want to find, if you want to reach evangelicals on sunday obviously is a from the pulpit but everyone to read to them on saturday you go to wal-mart. and his association between the company and evangelicalism in this country is very clear in the stores, it is just not part of the companies over itself presentation and is not, in fact, part of the original wal-mart family on history. there were not, in fact, the evangelical activists in any way, bearing in mind protestants, but people in the stores again have a kind of change the meaning above the shopping, service work, and of this large corporation on the planet to be red magic christian story. a story about what to do for other people recognition that is the work of service as work and can be a labor of love and and that there are for many christians very ennobling associations with that. when i first turn and encountering people kind