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 ...
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.
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Small businesses pay Capital Gains?? I’ve had a small business for 30 years...No Capital gains on my forms!!
We are a better country than this.
***He’s kinda stealing the line from Huckabee.
Just like Krintong did.
Like corner crack dealers...
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!
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.
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.
"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
This must be the first reference to the war in the entire DNC convention.
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!
“...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?!
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.
“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.
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