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  • the new the No

  • Barack Obama in 2004 was

  • totally unknown people were saying I don't know who this guy is

  • wonder why they picked him

  • he had to be patient as a bit of an upstart as survey young

  • rising figure in the party but knowing who this guy was this is his chance to

  • do some self people

  • tonight is the particular honor for me because let's face

  • my presence on this stage is pretty unlikely

  • my father with a foreign student

  • born and raised in a small village

  • in Kenya what makes a great point its if you can somehow fold your story into

  • larger

  • American story the next thing he says as bad as mother's family his grandfather

  • for

  • in world war two years the GI Bill Kansas

  • Kansas so white people he ;s just like us

  • he's just like this my parents shared not only an improbable low

  • they share an abiding faith in the possibilities at this nation I stand

  • I stand here knowing

  • that my story is part of the larger American story that

  • I owe a debt to all of those who came before me

  • and that in all other country on earth is my story

  • even possible

  • going into this speech

  • we've had up four years the george bush

  • and we felt as a country like we've grown further apart 04 was very much a

  • divisive partisan raised Obama's speeches and in some ways an antidote to

  • that

  • alongside are famous individualism there's another ingredient

  • in the American side believe that we're all connected

  • as 1p if there's a child on the south side of chicago

  • who can read that matters to me even if it's not much a

  • if there's a single pedestal somewhere you can't pay for prescription drugs

  • and have to choose between medicine in the red that makes my life

  • more even if it's not my grandparents that fundamental belief I am My

  • Brother's Keeper

  • I am i pester keeper that makes this country work eat were both owner

  • other many one he gives a speech that presages his

  • entire political master 2008: which is this your post pars argument now

  • even as we speak there are those who are preparing

  • to divide the spin masters mega bad peddlers

  • were braced the politics 'em anything goes well

  • I say to them tonight there is not a liberal America

  • and a conservative America the United States

  • America

  • the

  • Obama was born with to great gift

  • one is his mind and the other is

  • ability to speak to large group of people

  • there are three things that Obama does that really makes that speech affected

  • he wants concrete detail he likes story

  • and he loves antithesis that this is the Newsome

  • repetition in structures show contrast

  • there is now a liberal americorps conservative America

  • there's is not a black america

  • and a white america, and Latino america and asian america

  • but the United States of America

  • from both our countries in the lead

  • in the Red Staes and Blue States but I've got news for them too

  • we were supply of them got in the blue states and we don't like federal agents

  • poking around in our libraries in the red state the

  • wake up homie and the buffet and yep we got from paper and then the right

  • States we all want people all of us

  • pledging allegiance to the stars and stripes all about defending the United

  • States

  • America the way muses

  • hansi actually points a lot does love this lot of their

  • love that in doing so he gives up the scent energy

  • I am new I'm someone who is dynamic

  • and he doesn't get much anymore he's a little more Solomon reserving his

  • speeches today

  • i think is more fucked above his office the

  • in him that's what this election is about

  • we participate

  • into politics is cynicism or do we participate into politics civil

  • the hope of slave sitting around a fire singing freedom songs

  • the whole up immigrants setting up for Justin Schultz

  • the whole a young naval lieutenant

  • bravely patrolling the make on Delta the hope

  • a mill workers son who dares to the five yards

  • the hope of a skinny kid with a funny name who believes that america have a

  • place for him till

  • I'll whole

  • face a paper called whole in the but

  • a fun certainty Dr pretty

  • a whole his appearance

  • at that convention because the best speech to the convention better than

  • John Kerry's was electrifying and

  • without it he wouldn't be president I think sincerity

  • July there are people who when they speak that they speak the truth is they

  • see it

  • and their they're very effective doing I believe this country will reclaim its

  • promise

  • and up this fall political dartmouth a brighter day will come

  • thank you very much on the

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