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Barack Obama
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www.subbers-in-black.com |
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Ladies and gentlemen, |
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the next First Family |
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of the United States of America... |
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Hello, Chicago! |
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Is there... |
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Is anyone out there... |
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...who still doubts |
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where all things are possible ? |
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Who still wonders if the dream |
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is alive in our son ? |
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Who still questions |
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Tonight is your answer. |
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It's the answer told by lines |
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that stretched around |
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in numbers that this nation |
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by people who waited |
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Many for the first time in their lives. |
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Because they believed that this time |
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must be different. |
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That their voices |
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It's the answer spoken |
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rich and poor, |
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Democrat and Republican, |
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black, white, |
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hispanic, asian, |
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disabled and not disabled, |
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Americans who sent |
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that we have never been |
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just a collection of individuals |
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or a collection of red states |
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We are and always will be |
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the United States of America. |
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It's the answer |
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that led those |
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by so many to be cynical, and fearfull, |
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and doubtful |
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to put their hands |
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and bend it once more |
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toward the hope of a better day. |
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It's been a long time coming. |
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But tonight, |
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because of what we did |
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in this election, |
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at this defining moment, |
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changes come to America. |
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A little bit earlier this evening, |
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I received an extraordinarily |
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from Senator McCain. |
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Senator McCain fought long and hard |
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in this campaign, |
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and he's fought even longer and harder |
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for the country that he loves. |
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He has endured sacrifices |
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that most of us |
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We are better off |
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by this brave and selfless leader. |
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I congratulate him, |
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I congratulate Governor Palin, |
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for all that they've achieved |
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and I look forward to working with them. |
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To renew this nation's promise |
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in the months ahead. |
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I want to thank |
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my partner in this journey, |
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a man who campaigned from his heart, |
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and spoke for the men and women |
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he grew up with |
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and rode with on the train home |
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The vice President-elect |
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Joe Biden. |
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And I would not be standing here |
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tonight without the unyielding support |
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of my best friend, |
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for the last sixteen years, |
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the rock of our family, |
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the love of my life, |
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the nation's next first lady, |
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Michelle Obama. |
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Sasha and Malia, |
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I love you both |
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more than you can imagine. |
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And you have earned |
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the new poppy that is coming with us |
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to the White House. |
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And while she's no longer with us, |
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I know my grandmother's watching. |
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Along, with the family |
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that made me who I am. |
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I miss them tonight. |
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I know that my debt to them |
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is beyond measure. |
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To my sister Maya, |
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my sister Alma, |
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all my other brothers and sisters... |
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Thank you so much for all the support |
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you've given me. |
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I'm grateful to them. |
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To my campaign manager, David Plouffe... |
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The unsung heroe of this campaign |
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who built the best... |
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...the best political campaign, I think, |
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in the history of |
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To my chief strategist, David Axelrod, |
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who has been a partner with me |
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every step of the way. |
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To the best campaign team ever, |
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ever assembled |
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you made this happen, |
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and I'm forever grateful, |
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for what you sacrificed |
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to get it done. |
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But above all, |
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I will never forget |
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who this victory truly belongs to. |
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It belongs to you. |
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It belongs to you. |
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I was never the likeliest candidate |
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We didn't start |
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with much money |
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or many endorsments. |
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Our campaign has not hatched |
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in the halls of Washington, |
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it began in the backyards of Des Moines, |
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in the livingrooms of Concord, |
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in the front porches of Charleston. |
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It was built by working men and women |
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who dug into what little savings |
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they had to give 5$, $10, $20 |
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It grew strength from the young people |
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who rejected the myth of |
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their generation's apathy, |
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who left their homes and their families |
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for jobs that offered little pay |
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and less sleep. |
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It drew strength |
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from the not-so-young people |
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who braved the bitter cold |
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and scorching heat |
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to knock on doors of perfect strangers. |
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And from the millions of Americans |
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who volunteered and organized |
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and proved than more |
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a government of the people, |
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by the people, and for the people |
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has not perished from the Earth. |
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This is your victory. |
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And I know you didn't do this |
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just to win an election. |
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And I know you didn't do it for me. |
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You did it because you understand |
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the enormity of the task |
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that lies ahead. |
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For even as we celebrate tonight, |
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we know the challenges that tomorrow |
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will bring are the greatest |
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of our lifetime. |
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Two wars, a planet in peril, |
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the worst financial crisis in a century. |
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Even as we stand here tonight, |
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we know there are brave Americans |
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waking up in the deserts of Iraq |
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and the mountains of Afghanistan |
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to risk their lives for us. |
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There are mothers and fathers |
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who will lie awake |
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after the children fall asleep |
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and wonder how they'll make the mortgage |
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or pay their doctors' bills |
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or save enough for their |
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There's new energy to harness, |
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new jobs to be created, |
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new schools to build, |
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and threats to meet, |
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alliances to repair. |
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The road ahead will be long. |
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Our climb will be steep. |
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We may not get there in one year |
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or even in one term. |
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But, America, I have never been |
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more hopeful than I am tonight |
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that we will get there. |
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I promise you, |
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we as a people will get there. |
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There will be setbacks and false starts. |
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There are many who won't agree |
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with every decision or policy |
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I make as president. |
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And we know the government |
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can't solve every problem. |
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But I will always be honest with you |
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about the challenges we face. |
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I will listen to you, |
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especially when we disagree. |
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And, above all, I will ask you |
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to join in the work |
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of remaking this nation, |
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the only way it's been done |
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in America for 221 years, |
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block by block, brick by brick, |
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calloused hand by calloused hand. |
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What began 21 months ago |
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in the depths of winter |
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cannot end on this autumn night. |
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This victory alone |
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is not the change we seek. |
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It is only the chance for us |
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to make that change. |
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And that cannot happen |
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if we go back to the way things were. |
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It can't happen without you, |
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without a new spirit of service, |
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a new spirit of sacrifice. |
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So let us summon |
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a new spirit of patriotism, |
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of responsibility, |
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where each of us resolves |
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to pitch in and work harder |
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and look after not only ourselves, |
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but each other. |
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Let us remember that, |
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if this financial crisis |
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taught us anything, |
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it's that we cannot have |
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a thriving Wall Street |
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while Main Street suffers. |
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In this country, |
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we rise or fall as one nation, |
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as one people. |
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Let's resist the temptation |
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to fall back on the same partisanship |
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and pettiness and immaturity |
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that has poisoned our politics |
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for so long. |
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Let's remember |
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that it was a man from this state |
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who first carried the banner |
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of the Republican Party |
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to the White House, |
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a party founded on the values |
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of self-reliance |
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and individual liberty |
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and national unity. |
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Those are values |
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that we all share. |
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And while the Democratic Party |
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has won a great victory tonight, |
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we do so with a measure of humility |
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and determination |
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to heal the divides |
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that have held back our progress. |
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As Lincoln said to a nation |
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far more divided than ours, |
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"We are not enemies but friends. |
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Though passion may have strained, |
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it must not break our bonds |
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And to those Americans |
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whose support I have yet to earn, |
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I may not have won your vote tonight, |
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but I hear your voices. |
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I need your help. |
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And I will be your president, too. |
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And to all those watching tonight |
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from beyond our shores, |
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from parliaments and palaces, |
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to those who are huddled around radios |
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in the forgotten corners of the world, |
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our stories are singular, |
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but our destiny is shared, |
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and a new dawn of American leadership |
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is at hand. |
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To those... |
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To those who would tear the world down: |
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we will defeat you. |
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To those who seek peace and security: |
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we support you. |
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And to all those who have wondered |
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if America's beacon |
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still burns as bright: |
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tonight we proved once more |
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that the true strength of our nation |
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comes not from the might of our arms |
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or the scale of our wealth, |
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but from the enduring power |
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democracy, liberty, opportunity |
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and unyielding hope. |
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That's the true genius of America: |
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that America can change. |
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Our union can be perfected. |
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What we've already achieved |
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gives us hope |
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for what we can |
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and must achieve tomorrow. |
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This election had many firsts |
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and many stories that will be told |
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for generations. |
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But one that's on my mind tonight's |
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about a woman |
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who cast her ballot in Atlanta. |
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She's a lot like the millions of others |
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who stood in line |
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to make their voice heard |
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in this election, except for one thing: |
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Ann Nixon Cooper is 106 years old. |
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She was born |
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just a generation past slavery; |
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a time when there were no cars |
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on the road or planes in the sky; |
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when someone like her couldn't vote |
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for two reasons: |
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because she was a woman |
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and because of the color of her skin. |
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And tonight, I think about |
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all that she's seen |
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throughout her century in America. |
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The heartache and the hope, |
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the struggle and the progress, |
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the times we were told that we can't, |
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and the people who pressed on |
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with that American creed: Yes we can. |
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At a time when women's voices |
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were silenced and their hopes dismissed, |
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she lived to see them stand up |
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and speak out |
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and reach for the ballot. |
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When there was despair |
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in the Dust Bowl |
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and depression across the land, |
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she saw a nation conquer |
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fear itself with a New Deal, |
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new jobs, |
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a new sense of common purpose. |
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Yes we can. |
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When the bombs fell on our harbor |
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and tyranny threatened the world, |
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she was there to witness a generation |
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rise to greatness and a democracy was saved. |
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Yes we can. |
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She was there for the buses |
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in Montgomery, |
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the hoses in Birmingham, |
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a bridge in Selma, |
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and a preacher from Atlanta |
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who told a people that |
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"We Shall Overcome." |
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Yes we can. |
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A man touched down on the moon, |
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a wall came down in Berlin, |
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a world was connected |
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by our own science and imagination. |
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And this year, in this election, |
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she touched her finger to a screen, |
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and cast her vote, |
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because after 106 years in America, |
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through the best of times |
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and the darkest of hours, |
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she knows how America can change. |
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Yes we can. |
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America, we have come so far. |
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We have seen so much. |
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But there is so much more to do. |
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So tonight, let us ask ourselves: |
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if our children should live |
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to see the next century, |
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if my daughters should be so lucky |
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to live as long as Ann Nixon Cooper, |
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what change will they see? |
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What progress will we have made? |
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This is our chance to answer that call. |
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This is our moment. |
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This is our time, |
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to put our people back to work |
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and open doors of opportunity |
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for our kids; |
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to restore prosperity |
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and promote the cause of peace; |
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to reclaim the American dream |
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and reaffirm that fundamental truth, |
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that, out of many, we are one; |
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that while we breathe, we hope. |
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And where we are met |
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with cynicism and doubts, |
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and those who tell us that we can't, |
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we will respond with that timeless creed |
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that sums up the spirit of a people: |
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Yes, we can. |
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Thank you. |
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God bless you. |
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And may God bless |
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the United States of America. |
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Congratulations to Barack Obama |
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for his great victory. |
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President-elect Barack Obama |
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and the next first Lady |
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of the United States. |
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The... he dug deep in those remarks. |
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He tried to reach this moment. |
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And this is a moment |
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that millions and millions of people |
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will never forget; on this day, |
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the next president of the United States |
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has been elected, |
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he will become the 44th president |
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of the United States, |
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and the first African-American president |
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of the United States. |
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Joe Biden was there, |
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you saw his 90-year-old mother. |
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You can only imagine |
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what she is going through right now. |
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Both of the families were there, |
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the Obama family, the Biden family. |
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And there you see Jesse Jackson, |
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the Reverend Jesse Jackson, |
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among the approximatelly |
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125,000 people or so, |
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estimated to be in that crowd |
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at Grand Park, in Chicago, |
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along the lake they gathered there |
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to celebrate this moment. |
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They gathered there |
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hours before they knew for sure |
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that Barack Obama will be elected |
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president of the United States. |
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It's a real historic moment. |
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I don't think we can overemphasize, |
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how significant this is, |
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I think it's the last time |
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a president-elect had a night like this. |
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So really you got to go back |
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when Bill Clinton became |
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Because in 2000 when George W. Bush... |
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with hindsight won the election, |
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it took about 30 days for that recall, |
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and recount to take place, |
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so they really couldn't... |
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he really couldn't celebrate |
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as Barack Obama is doing on this night, |
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as Bill Clinton did back |
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in Little Rock in 1992. |
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So they're going to enjoy it. |
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They're going to appreciate |
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And we're going to stay |
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on top of this story, |
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because how he did it, |
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is a story |
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Our coverage will continue |
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we're here at the CNN Election Center, |
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we're watching it... |
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...and we'll come back. |
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The Subbers In Black |
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www.subbers-in-black.com |
