I was watching a John Kerry speech on C-Span tonight which took place in Michigan. He came out with a line that was something like this - "We should not be builidng firehouses in Iraq and closing therm here" which got big applause from the crowd. I thought that was really appealing to the lowest common denominator - selfish desire for government funds and ignoring the world around you.

I figured he'd used it before, and sure enough it's an old line. See this Salon related blog from last July.

Here it is on Kerry's campaign site as transcribed from a speech last August.