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Obama: 'We are a better country than this' (Obama's speech)
Boston Globe ^ | 8/28/08 | Foon Rhee

Posted on 08/28/2008 4:12:26 PM PDT by pissant

Senator Barack Obama will promise change -- and spells out specifics such as tax cuts for the middle class -- as he accepts the Democratic presidential nomination tonight.

Obama also warns that Republican John McCain would mean four more years of President Bush's flawed policies, declaring “America, we are better than these last eight years. We are a better country than this.”.

Here are excerpts of the speech, titled "The American Promise," just released by Obama's campaign:

“Four years ago, I stood before you and told you my story – of the brief union between a young man from Kenya and a young woman from Kansas who weren’t well-off or well-known, but shared a belief that in America, their son could achieve whatever he put his mind to.

“It is that promise that has always set this country apart – that through hard work and sacrifice, each of us can pursue our individual dreams but still come together as one American family, to ensure that the next generation can pursue their dreams as well.

“It is why I stand here tonight. Because for two hundred and thirty two years, at each moment when that promise was in jeopardy, ordinary men and women – students and soldiers, farmers and teachers, nurses and janitors -- found the courage to keep it alive.

“We meet at one of those defining moments – a moment when our nation is at war, our economy is in turmoil, and the American promise has been threatened once more.

“Tonight, more Americans are out of work and more are working harder for less. More of you have lost your homes and more are watching your home values plummet. More of you have cars you can’t afford to drive, credit card bills you can’t afford to pay and tuition

(Excerpt) Read more at boston.com ...


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To: pissant

This scum pretends that our country is in jeopardy from within when it is the terrorists who threaten our lifestyle, our security, and our economy.


41 posted on 08/28/2008 4:36:53 PM PDT by Carley
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To: pissant

YouTube comment....

“I Fraudius”


42 posted on 08/28/2008 4:37:37 PM PDT by kanawa (Don't go where you're looking, look where you're going.)
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To: BGHater

Small businesses pay Capital Gains?? I’ve had a small business for 30 years...No Capital gains on my forms!!


43 posted on 08/28/2008 4:38:24 PM PDT by Sacajaweau (I'm planting corn...Have to feed my car...)
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To: pissant

We are a better country than this.
***He’s kinda stealing the line from Huckabee.


44 posted on 08/28/2008 4:38:43 PM PDT by Kevmo (A person's a person, no matter how small. ~Horton Hears a Who)
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To: BGHater
“I will cut taxes – cut taxes – for 95% of all working families. Because in an economy like this, the last thing we should do is raise taxes on the middle-class.

Just like Krintong did.

45 posted on 08/28/2008 4:39:52 PM PDT by Colonel_Flagg (A vote for a third party is a vote for a third party.)
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To: El Cid
Riiight. Definition of 'small business' is any company with two or less people.

Like corner crack dealers...

46 posted on 08/28/2008 4:44:33 PM PDT by LRS (NO DRILLING; NO PEACE!)
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To: BGHater

I hope Monday night that George W Bush gives his speech “no holds barred” style and goes after this empty suit.

This moron has not been successful at anything and judges W as a failure??? I hope W responds appropriately!


47 posted on 08/28/2008 4:47:42 PM PDT by landerwy ("A republic, if you can keep it")
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To: pissant

We are a better country than this?

Excuse me? I wasn’t aware that were were not a great country?

Exactly what are we a better country than?

The one where a refugee from the Sudan can be brought to these shores, put up in a home, and go through college and graduate with honors?

The one where a couple of kids in a garage can make a computer program into one of the richest companies on Earth.

The one that can send machines to the far corners of space?

The one where people can be critical of the government without fear of jail or torture?

*Except if you make and ad with Ayers in it.

The one where men and women volunteer to wear the uniform of this “lousy” country to go overseas to defend it and to free oppressed.

The nation that continues to inspire enslaved peoples of the world to aspire for freedom and liberty?

The one that only millionaire liberals seem to want to leave but millions want to get in?

The one with so much creativity that we entertain the world?

The one where women can live free and safe from repression.

The one where we can worship our God without fear of death.

The one where the limits of your greatness is limited by only the limits of your imagine.

The one where the grandson of a sharecropper from the Jim Crow south is so free today that I dont have to look to you for “hope” or salvation because my skin tone happens to match yours.

This is a nation not of kings or messiahs, no gods among us, but of men. Free Americans.

In that, Obama can there be no nation better than.


48 posted on 08/28/2008 4:47:57 PM PDT by VanDeKoik
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To: pissant
America, we are better than these last eight years. We are a better country than this.

Good God - they want to elect my Great Aunt Mildred. I can see Bambi's finger shaking.

He's running against Bush. Can't say he wasn't warned.

49 posted on 08/28/2008 4:48:33 PM PDT by Billthedrill
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To: raybbr
All that? Will he bring peace on earth and transform it into a paradise? Talk about a mammoth-sized ego!

"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus

50 posted on 08/28/2008 4:51:50 PM PDT by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
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To: pissant

This must be the first reference to the war in the entire DNC convention.


51 posted on 08/28/2008 4:52:50 PM PDT by oblomov
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To: pissant
We are a better country than this

You said it, obambi! Unfortnately for you, you ain't gonna have the luxury to do anything about it, because McZilla is gonna stomp you in the General Elections!

52 posted on 08/28/2008 4:54:37 PM PDT by Vision Thing (McZilla vs. Obambi)
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To: Gaffer
RENT????????

Watch It On Line.
53 posted on 08/28/2008 5:01:11 PM PDT by HighlyOpinionated (“Anybody who has used or advocates using a contraceptive knows when life begins”.)
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To: pissant

“...and more are working harder for less.”

Maybe if you stop taxing us to death.....that might help. I think of how hard I work, how much of it gets taken from me and flushed down the government rat hole....and for what?!


54 posted on 08/28/2008 5:01:57 PM PDT by doubleA
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55 posted on 08/28/2008 5:11:02 PM PDT by WalterSkinner ( In Memory of My Father--WWII Vet and Patriot 1926-2007)
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To: BGHater
“And for the sake of our economy, our security, and the future of our planet, I will set a clear goal as President: in ten years, we will finally end our dependence on oil from the Middle East.

What? There he goes with the TEN YEARS again. He thinks we have 57 States and that Hawaii and Alaska only count as "one more." This man is mentally deficient . . . He must have graduated at the bottom of his Affirmative Action class! I cannot believe how STUPID or IGNORANT this "world citizen" is.

I'm sitting here listening to Democrats praise Obama. I wonder how many of them are going to leave the toga party and go home and toss their cookies in the porcelain throne. There's NO WAY a sane person could believe what they are saying about Obama and the USofA.

McCain has GOT to win.

56 posted on 08/28/2008 5:11:54 PM PDT by HighlyOpinionated (“Anybody who has used or advocates using a contraceptive knows when life begins”.)
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To: WalterSkinner
Fredrick Douglass
57 posted on 08/28/2008 5:24:57 PM PDT by HighlyOpinionated (“Anybody who has used or advocates using a contraceptive knows when life begins”.)
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To: pissant

Is Obama saying that it is the fault of America that idiots have credit card debt they can’t pay? Who exactly made them spend too much and who made people take out mortgages on properties they actually could never afford? It seems Obama wants the government to be responsible for total care of idiots who can’t manage money.


58 posted on 08/28/2008 5:59:35 PM PDT by nclaurel
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59 posted on 08/28/2008 6:02:12 PM PDT by Pharmboy (Democrats lie because they must.)
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To: pissant
“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.”
Obama's promising folks some Diff'rent Strokes.
 
60 posted on 08/28/2008 6:17:28 PM PDT by counterpunch (John McCain - For the LOVE of Country)
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