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Barack Obama in

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2004 was totally unknown people were

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saying huh I don't know who this guy is

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wonder why they picked him he had this

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reputation as a bit of an upstart as

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sort of a young Rising figure in the

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party but no one knew who this guy was

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this was his chance to introduce himself

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to people tonight is a particular honor

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for me because let's face it my presence

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on this stage is pretty

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unlikely my father was a foreign student

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born and raised in a small village in

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Kenya what makes a great political spe

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is if you can somehow fold your story

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into this larger American story the next

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thing he says is about his mother family

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his grandfather fought in World War II

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he used the GI bill they settled in

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Kansas so white people could say uh oh

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he's just like us my parents shared not

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only an improbable love they shared an

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Abiding Faith in the possibilities of

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this

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nation I stand here knowing that my

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story is part of the larger American

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story that I owe a debt to all of those

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who came before me and that in no other

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country on earth is my story even

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possible going into this speech we've

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had uh four years of George Bush and we

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felt as a country like we've grown

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further apart 04 was very much a

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divisive partis and race Obama's speech

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is in some ways an antidote to that

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alongside our famous individualism

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there's another ingredient in the

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American Saga a belief that we're all

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connected as one people if there's a

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child on the south side of Chicago who

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can't read that matters to me even if

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it's not my child if there's a senior

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citizen somewhere who can't pay for

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their prescription drugs and having to

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choose between medicine and the rent

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that makes my life poor even if it's not

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my

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grandparent it is that fundamental

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belief I am My Brother's Keeper I am My

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Sister's Keeper that makes this country

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work e pluris UNAM out of many one gives

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a speech that prees his entire political

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message of 2008 which is this sort of

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post-partisan argument now even as we

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speak there are those who are preparing

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to divide us the Spin Masters the

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negative ad pedlers who embrace the

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politics of anything

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goes well I say to them tonight there is

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not a liberal America and a conservative

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America there is the United States of

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America

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Obama was bornn with two great gifts one

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is his mind and the other is his ability

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to speak to large groups of people there

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are three things that Obama does that

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really makes that speech effective he

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wants concrete detail he likes story and

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he loves antithesis the use of

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repetition inst structure to show

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contrast there is not a liberal America

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or a conservative America there is one

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America very is not a Black America and

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a white America and Latino America and

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Asian America there's the United States

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of America the pundits like to slice and

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dice our country into red States and

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blue States but I've got news for them

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too we worship an awesome God in the

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blue States and we don't like federal

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agents poking around in our libraries in

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the red

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States we coach little league in the

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blue States and yes we've got some gay

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friends in the red States We Are One

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people all of us pledging allegiance to

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the Stars and Stripes all of us

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defending the United States of

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America the way he uses his hands he

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actually points a lot and does a lot of

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this and a lot of this a lot of that in

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doing so he gives off this sense of

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energy I am new I'm someone who is

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dynamic and he doesn't do that much

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anymore he's a little more solemn and

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reserved when he get speeches today but

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I think it's more reflective of his

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office

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in the end in the end that's what this

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election is

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about do we participate in a politics of

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cynicism or do we participate in a

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politics of hope it's the hope of slaves

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sitting around of fire singing freedom

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songs the hope of immigrants setting out

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for Distant

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Shores the hope of a young Naval

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Lieutenant bravely patrolling the makong

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Delta the hope of a mill worker's son

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who dares to defy the odds the hope of a

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skinny kid with a funny name who

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believes that America has a place for

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him

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too hope hope in the face of difficulty

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hope in the face of

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uncertainty The Audacity Of

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Hope his appearance at that convention

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which was the best speech of the

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convention better than John K's was

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electrifying and and without it he

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wouldn't be president I think sincerity

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means a lot there are people who when

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they speak they speak the truth as they

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see it and they're they're very

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effective doing that I believe this

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country will reclaim its promise and out

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of this long political Darkness a

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brighter day will come thank you very

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much everybody God bless you

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