Yes. We. Can.
This is good. Really good.
Some thoughts and quotes... as I hear them:
Next week, in Minnesota, the same party that brought you two terms of George Bush and Dick Cheney will ask this country for a third.
What does it say about your judgment when you think George Bush has been right 90% of the time?
I don't know about you, but I am not willing to take a 10% chance on change.
He is strongly taking on John McCain. This is not just a message about hope and change. This is a message about how WHY Barack Obama gives us more hope and better change than John McCain ever will.
Now, I don’t believe that Senator McCain doesn’t care what’s going on in the lives of Americans. I just think he doesn’t know. Why else would he define middle-class as someone making under five million dollars a year? How else could he propose hundreds of billions in tax breaks for big corporations and oil companies but not one penny of tax relief to more than one hundred million Americans? How else could he offer a health care plan that would actually tax people’s benefits, or an education plan that would do nothing to help families pay for college, or a plan that would privatize Social Security and gamble your retirement?
It’s not because John McCain doesn’t care. It’s because John McCain doesn’t get it.
That’s the promise of America – the idea that we are responsible for ourselves, but that we also rise or fall as one nation; the fundamental belief that I am my brother’s keeper; I am my sister’s keeper.
He is now talking real policy, and making it accessible. This isn't the typical motivational speech that Obama gives so well. This is a powerful and dynamic Presidential speech about policy issues. This is about what truly makes him a better candidate than John McCain. This is about why he brings hope and change.
Michelle and I are only here tonight because we were given a chance at an education. And I will not settle for an America where some kids don’t have that chance.
And now is the time to keep the promise of equal pay for an equal day’s work, because I want my daughters to have exactly the same opportunities as your sons.
Individual responsibility and mutual responsibility – that’s the essence of America’s promise.
If John McCain wants to have a debate about who has the temperament, and judgment, to serve as the next Commander-in-Chief, that’s a debate I’m ready to have.
one of the things that we have to change in our politics is the idea that people cannot disagree without challenging each other’s character and patriotism.
So I’ve got news for you, John McCain. We all put our country first.
Damn... I have tears... this is awesome. This is historical. This is powerful.
Barack Obama will be the next President of the United States.
I know there are differences on same-sex marriage, but surely we can agree that our gay and lesbian brothers and sisters deserve to visit the person they love in the hospital and to live lives free of discrimination.
If you don’t have a record to run on, then you paint your opponent as someone people should run from.
But I stand before you tonight because all across America something is stirring. What the nay-sayers don’t understand is that this election has never been about me. It’s been about you.
But what the people heard instead – people of every creed and color, from every walk of life – is that in America, our destiny is inextricably linked. That together, our dreams can be one.
“We cannot walk alone,” the preacher cried. “And as we walk, we must make the pledge that we shall always march ahead. We cannot turn back.”
America, we cannot turn back. Not with so much work to be done. Not with so many children to educate, and so many veterans to care for. Not with an economy to fix and cities to rebuild and farms to save. Not with so many families to protect and so many lives to mend. America, we cannot turn back. We cannot walk alone. At this moment, in this election, we must pledge once more to march into the future. Let us keep that promise – that American promise – and in the words of Scripture hold firmly, without wavering, to the hope that we confess.
Wow.
Wow.
Wow.
That was not good. That was great. Again, it was not a typical Barack Obama speech. This was by far the most "presidential" that I have seen Barack Obama look, whatever that means.
I loved it. He has given many great speeches. But this was different. This was special.
Yes. We. Can.
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