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So close. But I have to deduct points for failing to insert a real person, preferably a sympathetic former service man, into your speech.
Reworked:
"That’s a good question, and I’m glad you brought it up. The American people, the hard-working decent people spread across the great land of ours, people like John Smith here (pan to John Smith, waving a tiny flag) who risked his life in Iraq and saved thousands of Iraqi schoolchildren after hurling himself on a bomb, who is now unemployed and ineligible for medical benefits which will allow him to get a prosthetic leg…are an optimistic, hard-working people in this great country we call America.
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You also need to work some reference to God or praying in there if you hope to be taken seriously as a candidate for public office. Invoking a mythological, unseen, and omnipotent being with a temper like a three-year-old on a Pixie Stix bender is the best way to show your compassion and connection to the reality.
Stranger