11-05-2008, 03:46 PM
Eyes: still misting up watching the victory speech last night.
To all you who are apathetic, to all those who would be dismissive, to all those who wake up this beautiful American morning unmoved and untouched, a real change has happened in America. It hasn't happened in the economy. It hasn't happened in our policy. We still have two wars ahead, an economic crisis to meet, and a world to heal. What has changed is that I woke up and for the first time in my political life I was proud to be an American. My heart, my soul, is singing with the millions of others in this great country that anything is possible.
If you are uncaring - if you cannot muster the ability to Hope and believe, as you did in your childhood, that there are better times ahead - I urge you to remember the sight of Barack Obama, his wife Michelle, his two young daughters, Joe Biden and his mother, daughter, and grandchildren, black and white together on the same stage ready to ascend to the highest office this nation - perhaps even the world - has to offer. Fourty years ago - no, even ten years ago - this would have been impossible, yet today we see a new dawn. Today we see a people that look not just to the past, but to the future, because in this country nothing is beyond our reach, no challenge is beyond our ability to meet, and nothing - and I mean nothing - is beyond hope.
God bless America, you've made me proud.
To all you who are apathetic, to all those who would be dismissive, to all those who wake up this beautiful American morning unmoved and untouched, a real change has happened in America. It hasn't happened in the economy. It hasn't happened in our policy. We still have two wars ahead, an economic crisis to meet, and a world to heal. What has changed is that I woke up and for the first time in my political life I was proud to be an American. My heart, my soul, is singing with the millions of others in this great country that anything is possible.
If you are uncaring - if you cannot muster the ability to Hope and believe, as you did in your childhood, that there are better times ahead - I urge you to remember the sight of Barack Obama, his wife Michelle, his two young daughters, Joe Biden and his mother, daughter, and grandchildren, black and white together on the same stage ready to ascend to the highest office this nation - perhaps even the world - has to offer. Fourty years ago - no, even ten years ago - this would have been impossible, yet today we see a new dawn. Today we see a people that look not just to the past, but to the future, because in this country nothing is beyond our reach, no challenge is beyond our ability to meet, and nothing - and I mean nothing - is beyond hope.
God bless America, you've made me proud.
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