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RAW DATA: Obama's Speech at the Lincoln Memorial Concert
FoxNews ^ | Jan. 18, 2009 | Barack Hussein Obama

Posted on 01/18/2009 3:56:53 PM PST by FocusNexus

President-elect Obama's remarks to the crowd at the Lincoln Memorial "We Are One" concert on Sunday.

In the course of our history, only a handful of generations have been asked to confront challenges as serious as the ones we face right now. Our nation is at war. Our economy is in crisis.

I won't pretend that meeting any one of these challenges will be easy. It will take more than a month or a year, and it will likely take many. Along the way there will be setbacks and false starts and days that test our fundamental resolve as a nation.

But despite all of this -- despite the enormity of the task that lies ahead -- I stand here today as hopeful as ever that the United States of America will endure, that it will prevail, that the dream of our founders will live on in our time.

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TOPICS: Front Page News; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: bhoinauguration; bhotranscripts; obama; theone; weareone
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1 posted on 01/18/2009 3:56:53 PM PST by FocusNexus
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To: FocusNexus

“And I intend to save this country by bankrupting it.”


2 posted on 01/18/2009 3:59:36 PM PST by benjibrowder (Looking forward to kicking Obama out of office in 2012.)
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To: FocusNexus

“We Are One?”

BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

We haven’t been “one” in decades now. He may soon be the Grand Cyclops of the country, but he will never be my president.


3 posted on 01/18/2009 4:00:01 PM PST by DakotaRed (Don't you wish you had supported a conservative when you had the chance?)
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To: FocusNexus

Ich bin ein beginner...


4 posted on 01/18/2009 4:00:56 PM PST by Mojave (Own a pit bull; own the consequences.)
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To: FocusNexus

Amazing! It sounds like it came out of here: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2166860/posts


5 posted on 01/18/2009 4:01:12 PM PST by BenLurkin (Mornie utulie. Mornie alantie.)
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To: FocusNexus

ah, but he’ll have the press adoring him and spreading propaganda for him...

as for all those problems: They are actually no worse than Jimmy Carter faced...


6 posted on 01/18/2009 4:14:22 PM PST by LadyDoc (liberals only love politically correct poor people)
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To: benjibrowder

I really like this speech. The image of the Lincoln behind him is inspiring. He paraphrased lines from Lincoln and Kennedy. His delivery was excellent.

Not to say that I voted for or supported the guy, but he is an excellent public speaker. That is the only thing that I can praise him for.


7 posted on 01/18/2009 4:24:35 PM PST by garjog
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To: garjog

All of a sudden he believes Americans can do anything.

When it is American troops in Iraq, he said it would fail.

He says we are one now? Yet voted against our troops on the battlefield.

This guy uses a lot of Oprah words, he is nothing but cult of personality and socialism.


8 posted on 01/18/2009 4:35:37 PM PST by Names Ash Housewares (Refusing to kneel before the socialist messiah. 1-20-13 Freedom Day.)
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To: FocusNexus

His choice to pattern himself after Lincoln is actually quite cynical. Everyone knows how Lincoln ended. “The one” wants to use that potential to garner concern and justify increases to his personal protection.


9 posted on 01/18/2009 4:36:50 PM PST by anniegetyourgun
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To: Mojave
Ich bin ein beginner...

I laughed so hard when I read this that it scared my grandson! Excellent!!!

10 posted on 01/18/2009 4:43:51 PM PST by MadPenguin (An armed man is a citizen; an unarmed man is a subject!)
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To: FocusNexus

let me get this straight.....

When Bush got elected (twice), we weren’t ‘one’. But now that your guy gets elected, suddenly we are a united country? Exactly how did that happen?

By ‘one’ do they mean LA, DC and NYC?? Cuz those places were already ‘one’ every year that I’ve been alive.

Who else is ‘one’ who wasn’t ‘one’ last year?

The Answer: You Liberals. So congratulations on finally joining those of us who want America to succeed! We welcome to amongst those of us who are Proud of America (like Michelle Obama has finally become).


11 posted on 01/18/2009 4:45:30 PM PST by bpjam (GOP is 3 - 0 in elections after Nov 4th. You Can Smell the Rally !!!)
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To: FocusNexus

We are NOT “one” sir. To be united, there must be mutual respect. I and millions of others do not respect you, as you have done nothing to earn it.

And I highly doubt you ever will. You have been a fraud since the moment you were born.


12 posted on 01/18/2009 4:52:24 PM PST by A_Former_Democrat
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To: garjog

Hitler had a thing for oratory as well..


13 posted on 01/18/2009 5:00:14 PM PST by Mmogamer (<This space for lease>)
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To: FocusNexus
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sNa1N-Ct37c

Little Tin God, Obama

14 posted on 01/18/2009 5:14:53 PM PST by TornadoAlley3 (Obama is everything Oklahoma is not.)
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To: anniegetyourgun

That...plus...the little fact that Lincoln was a REPUBLICAN!


15 posted on 01/18/2009 5:20:34 PM PST by goodnesswins (Tell the truth - GOEBBELIZATION (propaganda) is what many voters suffer from.....)
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To: FocusNexus

This stuff is absolutely outrageous. No, I’m not talking about the potential for this Marxist’s destructive mayhem. What really frosts my butt is the RAT move to make election cycles continuous and, then, this @ss trying to act Presidential from the moment he was given the RAT nod. Pretentious seals, “healing the earth” and now this. Give me a staight foward dictator and tyrannt instead of this preening nitwit.


16 posted on 01/18/2009 5:49:59 PM PST by WorkingClassFilth (Actually, it all started back in Mayberry. Helen Crump was a traveler and Floyd, well, you know...)
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To: FocusNexus

Hogwash. The Great Depression, the Civil War, and World War II were all worse crises than anything we face today. Obama is merely lowering expectations and demanding support for anything he may want to do.


17 posted on 01/18/2009 5:59:25 PM PST by popdonnelly (Don't lose sight of your conservative principles.)
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To: FocusNexus

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QEnaAZrYqQI


18 posted on 01/18/2009 6:13:09 PM PST by danamco
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