“America, we are better than these last eight years. We are a better country than this.”
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“This moment – this election – is our chance to keep, in the 21st century, the American promise alive. Because 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. And we are here because we love this country too much to let the next four years look just like the last eight. On November 4th, we must stand up and say: “Eight is enough.”
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“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.
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“We are the party of Roosevelt. We are the party of Kennedy. So don’t tell me that Democrats won’t defend this country,” Obama said. “I will never hesitate to defend this nation.”
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What is that American promise?
It’s a promise that says each of us has the freedom to make of our own lives what we will, but that we also have the obligation to treat each other with dignity and respect.
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I stand before you tonight because all across America something is stirring. What the naysayers don’t understand is that this election has never been about me. It’s about you. It’s about you.
Barack Obama is now the 2008 Democratic nominee for President of the United States of America.
Though our hard work has paid off, the real work is just begining.
But let’s take the next 24 hours to enjoy this historic moment and be proud to be Americans and Democrats. It may take a little bit of time for this reality to sink in.
Great speech from Michelle! She came across as warm, intelligent, and funny. I have a feeling that as the public gets to know her, she’ll be an incredible asset to the campaign.
Ted looks GREAT, considering what he’s been through. Great speech.
I’ve heard John Gibson pray and hope for riots in Denver, and though I thought his thoughts were pretty typical of the rabid-right, I didn’t think anyone with a large audience would publicly hope that demonstrators would burn down Denver while protesting Clinton’s nomination.
“Riots in Denver, the Democrat Convention would see to it that we don’t elect Democrats,” Limbaugh said during Wednesday’s radio broadcast. He then went on to say that’s the best thing that could happen to the country.
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“There won’t be riots at our convention,” Limbaugh said of the Republican National Convention. “We don’t riot. We don’t burn our cars. We don’t burn down our houses. We don’t kill our children. We don’t do half the things the American left does.”
See? In Limbaugh’s mind, we on the American left (whatever that is) burn our cars and house and kill our children.
