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> Barack Obama: To Chairman Dean and my great friend Dick Durbin; and to
> all my fellow citizens of this great nation.
> With profound gratitude and great humility, I accept your nomination
> for presidency of the United States.
> Let me express my thanks to the historic slate of candidates who
> accompanied me on this journey, and especially the one who traveled
> the farthest -- a champion for working Americans and an inspiration to
> my daughters and yours -- Hillary Rodham Clinton. To President Bill
> Clinton, who made last night the case for change as only he can make
> it; to Ted Kennedy, who embodies the spirit of service; and to the
> next vice president of the United States, Joe Biden, I thank you. I am
> grateful to finish this journey with one of the finest statesmen of
> our time, a man at ease with everyone from world leaders to the
> conductors on the Amtrak train he still takes home every night.
> To the love of my life, our next first lady, Michelle Obama, and to
> Malia and Sasha -- I love you so much, and I'm so proud of you.
> 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.
> That's why I stand here tonight. Because for 232 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 even 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 that's
> beyond your reach.
> These challenges are not all of government's making. But the failure
> to respond is a direct result of a broken politics in Washington and
> the failed policies of George W. Bush.
> America, we are better than these last eight years. We are a better
> country than this.
> This country is more decent than one where a woman in Ohio, on the
> brink of retirement, finds herself one illness away from disaster
> after a lifetime of hard work.
> We're a better country than one where a man in Indiana has to pack up
> the equipment he's worked on for 20 years and watch it shipped off to
> China, and then chokes up as he explains how he felt like a failure
> when he went home to tell his family the news.
> We are more compassionate than a government that lets veterans sleep
> on our streets and families slide into poverty; that sits on its hands
> while a major American city drowns before our eyes.
> Tonight, I say to the people of America, to Democrats and Republicans
> and independents across this great land -- enough! 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 4, we must stand up and say: "Eight is enough."
> Now let there be no doubt. The Republican nominee, John McCain, has
> worn the uniform of our country with bravery and distinction, and for
> that we owe him our gratitude and our respect. And next week, we'll
> also hear about those occasions when he's broken with his party as
> evidence that he can deliver the change that we need.
> But the record's clear: John McCain has voted with George Bush 90
> percent of the time. Sen. McCain likes to talk about judgment, but
> really, what does it say about your judgment when you think George
> Bush has been right more than 90 percent of the time? I don't know
> about you, but I'm not ready to take a 10 percent chance on change.
> The truth is, on issue after issue that would make a difference in
> your lives -- on health care and education and the economy -- Sen.
> McCain has been anything but independent. He said that our economy has
> made "great progress" under this president. He said that the
> fundamentals of the economy are strong. And when one of his chief
> advisers -- the man who wrote his economic plan -- was talking about
> the anxieties that Americans are feeling, he said that we were just
> suffering from a "mental recession," and that we've become, and I
> quote, "a nation of whiners."
> A nation of whiners? Tell that to the proud autoworkers at a Michigan
> plant who, after they found out it was closing, kept showing up every
> day and working as hard as ever, because they knew there were people
> who counted on the brakes that they made. Tell that to the military
> families who shoulder their burdens silently as they watch their loved
> ones leave for their third or fourth or fifth tour of duty. These are
> not whiners. They work hard and they give back and they keep going
> without complaint. These are the Americans I know.
> Now, I don't believe that Sen. McCain doesn't care what's going on in
> the lives of Americans. I just think he doesn't know. Why else would
> he define middle-class as someone making under $5 million a year? How
> else could he propose hundreds of billions in tax breaks for big
> corporations and oil companies but not one penny of tax relief to more
> than 100 million Americans? How else could he offer a health care plan
> that would actually tax people's benefits, or an education plan that
> would do nothing to help families pay for college, or a plan that
> would privatize Social Security and gamble your retirement?
> It's not because John McCain doesn't care. It's because John McCain
> doesn't get it.
> For over two decades, he's subscribed to that old, discredited
> Republican philosophy -- give more and more to those with the most and
> hope that prosperity trickles down to everyone else. In Washington,
> they call this the Ownership Society, but what it really means is that
> you're on your own. Out of work? Tough luck. You're on your own. No
> health care? The market will fix it. You're on your own. Born into
> poverty? Pull yourself up by your own bootstraps -- even if you don't
> have boots. You are on your own.
> Well it's time for them to own their failure. It's time for us to
> change America. And that's why I'm running for president of the United
> States.
> You see, we Democrats have a very different measure of what
> constitutes progress in this country.
> We measure progress by how many people can find a job that pays the
> mortgage; whether you can put a little extra money away at the end of
> each month so you can someday watch your child receive her college
> diploma. We measure progress in the 23 million new jobs that were
> created when Bill Clinton was president -- when the average American
> family saw its income go up $7,500 instead of go down $2,000 like it
> has under George Bush.
> We measure the strength of our economy not by the number of
> billionaires we have or the profits of the Fortune 500, but by whether
> someone with a good idea can take a risk and start a new business, or
> whether the waitress who lives on tips can take a day off and look
> after a sick kid without losing her job -- an economy that honors the
> dignity of work.
> The fundamentals we use to measure economic strength are whether we
> are living up to that fundamental promise that has made this country
> great -- a promise that is the only reason I am standing here tonight.
> Because in the faces of those young veterans who come back from Iraq
> and Afghanistan, I see my grandfather, who signed up after Pearl
> Harbor, marched in Patton's Army, and was rewarded by a grateful
> nation with the chance to go to college on the GI Bill.
> In the face of that young student who sleeps just three hours before
> working the night shift, I think about my mom, who raised my sister
> and me on her own while she worked and earned her degree; who once
> turned to food stamps but was still able to send us to the best
> schools in the country with the help of student loans and
> scholarships.
> When I listen to another worker tell me that his factory has shut
> down, I remember all those men and women on the South Side of Chicago
> I stood by and fought for two decades ago after the local steel plant
> closed.
> And when I hear a woman talk about the difficulties of starting her
> own business or making her way in the world, I think about my
> grandmother, who worked her way up from the secretarial pool to middle-
> management, despite years of being passed over for promotions because
> she was a woman. She's the one who taught me about hard work. She's
> the one who put off buying a new car or a new dress for herself so
> that I could have a better life. She poured everything she had into
> me. And although she can no longer travel, I know that she's watching
> tonight, and that tonight is her night as well.
> Now, I don't know what kind of lives John McCain thinks that
> celebrities lead, but this has been mine. These are my heroes. Theirs
> are the stories that shaped my life. And it is on behalf of them that
> I intend to win this election and keep our promise alive as president
> of the United States.
> What is that American promise?
> It's a promise that says each of us has the freedom to make of our own
> lives what we will, but that we also have the obligation to treat each
> other with dignity and respect.
> It's a promise that says the market should reward drive and innovation
> and generate growth, but that businesses should live up to their
> responsibilities to create American jobs, to look out for American
> workers, and play by the rules of the road.
> Ours is a promise that says government cannot solve all our problems,
> but what it should do is that which we cannot do for ourselves --
> protect us from harm and provide every child a decent education; keep
> our water clean and our toys safe; invest in new schools and new roads
> and science and technology.
> Our government should work for us, not against us. It should help us,
> not hurt us. It should ensure opportunity not just for those with the
> most money and influence, but for every American who's willing to
> work.
> That's the promise of America -- the idea that we are responsible for
> ourselves, but that we also rise or fall as one nation; the
> fundamental belief that I am my brother's keeper; I am my sister's
> keeper.
> That's the promise we need to keep. That's the change we need right
> now. So let me spell out exactly what that change would mean if I am
> president.
> Change means a tax code that doesn't reward the lobbyists who wrote
> it, but the American workers and small businesses who deserve it.
> You know, unlike John McCain, I will stop giving tax breaks to
> corporations that ship jobs overseas, and I will start giving them to
> companies that create good jobs right here in America.
> I'll eliminate capital gains taxes for the small businesses and the
> start-ups that will create the high-wage, high-tech jobs of tomorrow.
> I will, listen now, cut taxes -- cut taxes -- for 95 percent of all
> working families. Because in an economy like this, the last thing we
> should do is raise taxes on the middle-class.
> And for the sake of our economy, our security and the future of our
> planet, I will set a clear goal as president: In 10 years, we will
> finally end our dependence on oil from the Middle East. We will do
> this.
> Washington's been talking about our oil addiction for the last 30
> years, and by the way John McCain's been there for 26 of them. And in
> that time, he's said no to higher fuel-efficiency standards for cars,
> no to investments in renewable energy, no to renewable fuels. And
> today, we import triple the amount of oil that we had as the day that
> Sen. McCain took office.
> Now is the time to end this addiction, and to understand that drilling
> is a stop-gap measure, not a long-term solution. Not even close.
> As president, I will tap our natural gas reserves, invest in clean
> coal technology, and find ways to safely harness nuclear power. I'll
> help our auto companies re-tool, so that the fuel-efficient cars of
> the future are built right here in America. I'll make it easier for
> the American people to afford these new cars. And I'll invest $150
> billion over the next decade in affordable, renewable sources of
> energy -- wind power and solar power and the next generation of
> biofuels; an investment that will lead to new industries and 5 million
> new jobs that pay well and can't be outsourced.
> America, now is not the time for small plans.
> Now is the time to finally meet our moral obligation to provide every
> child a world-class education, because it will take nothing less to
> compete in the global economy. You know, Michelle and I are only here
> tonight because we were given a chance at an education. And I will not
> settle for an America where some kids don't have that chance. I'll
> invest in early childhood education. I'll recruit an army of new
> teachers, and pay them higher salaries and give them more support. And
> in exchange, I'll ask for higher standards and more accountability.
> And we will keep our promise to every young American -- if you commit
> to serving your community or our country, we will make sure you can
> afford a college education.
> Now is the time to finally keep the promise of affordable, accessible
> health care for every single American. If you have health care, my
> plan will lower your premiums. If you don't, you'll be able to get the
> same kind of coverage that members of Congress give themselves. And as
> someone who watched my mother argue with insurance companies while she
> lay in bed dying of cancer, I will make certain those companies stop
> discriminating against those who are sick and need care the most.
> Now is the time to help families with paid sick days and better family
> leave, because nobody in America should have to choose between keeping
> their job and caring for a sick child or ailing parent.
> Now is the time to change our bankruptcy laws, so that your pensions
> are protected ahead of CEO bonuses; and the time to protect Social
> Security for future generations.
> And now is the time to keep the promise of equal pay for an equal
> day's work, because I want my daughters to have the exact same
> opportunities as your sons.
> Now, many of these plans will cost money, which is why I've laid out
> how I'll pay for every dime -- by closing corporate loopholes and tax
> havens that don't help America grow. But I will also go through the
> federal budget, line by line, eliminating programs that no longer work
> and making the ones we do need work better and cost less -- because we
> cannot meet 21st century challenges with a 20th century bureaucracy.
> And Democrats, we must also admit that fulfilling America's promise
> will require more than just money. It will require a renewed sense of
> responsibility from each of us to recover what John F. Kennedy called
> our "intellectual and moral strength." Yes, government must lead on
> energy independence, but each of us must do our part to make our homes
> and businesses more efficient. Yes, we must provide more ladders to
> success for young men who fall into lives of crime and despair. But we
> must also admit that programs alone can't replace parents; that
> government can't turn off the television and make a child do her
> homework; that fathers must take more responsibility to provide love
> and guidance to their children.
> Individual responsibility and mutual responsibility -- that's the
> essence of America's promise.
> And just as we keepour promise to the next generation here at home, so
> must we keep America's promise abroad. If John McCain wants to have a
> debate about who has the temperament, and judgment, to serve as the
> next commander in chief, that's a debate I'm ready to have.
> For while Sen. McCain was turning his sights to Iraq just days after
> 9/11, I stood up and opposed this war, knowing that it would distract
> us from the real threats that we face. When John McCain said we could
> just "muddle through" in Afghanistan, I argued for more resources and
> more troops to finish the fight against the terrorists who actually
> attacked us on 9/11, and made clear that we must take out Osama bin
> Laden and his lieutenants if we have them in our sights. You know,
> John McCain likes to say that he'll follow bin Laden to the Gates of
> Hell -- but he won't even go to the cave where he lives.
> And today, as my call for a time frame to remove our troops from Iraq
> has been echoed by the Iraqi government and even the Bush
> administration, even after we learned that Iraq has $79 billion in
> surplus while we are wallowing in deficits, John McCain stands alone
> in his stubborn refusal to end a misguided war.
> That's not the judgment we need. That won't keep America safe. We need
> a president who can face the threats of the future, not keep grasping
> at the ideas of the past.
> You don't defeat a terrorist network that operates in 80 countries by
> occupying Iraq. You don't protect Israel and deter Iran just by
> talking tough in Washington. You can't truly stand up for Georgia when
> you've strained our oldest alliances. If John McCain wants to follow
> George Bush with more tough talk and bad strategy, that is his choice
> -- but that is not the change that America needs.
> We are the party of Roosevelt. We are the party of Kennedy. So don't
> tell me that Democrats won't defend this country. Don't tell me that
> Democrats won't keep us safe. The Bush-McCain foreign policy has
> squandered the legacy that generations of Americans -- Democrats and
> Republicans -- have built, and we are here to restore that legacy.
> As commander in chief, I will never hesitate to defend this nation,
> but I will only send our troops into harm's way with a clear mission
> and a sacred commitment to give them the equipment they need in battle
> and the care and benefits they deserve when they come home.
> I will end this war in Iraq responsibly, and finish the fight against
> al Qaeda and the Taliban in Afghanistan. I will rebuild our military
> to meet future conflicts. But I will also renew the tough, direct
> diplomacy that can prevent Iran from obtaining nuclear weapons and
> curb Russian aggression. I will build new partnerships to defeat the
> threats of the 21st century: terrorism and nuclear proliferation;
> poverty and genocide; climate change and disease. And I will restore
> our moral standing, so that America is once again that last, best hope
> for all who are called to the cause of freedom, who long for lives of
> peace, and who yearn for a better future.
> These are the policies I will pursue. And in the weeks ahead, I look
> forward to debating them with John McCain.
> But what I will not do is suggest that the senator takes his positions
> for political purposes. Because one of the things that we have to
> change in our politics is the idea that people cannot disagree without
> challenging each other's character and each other's patriotism.
> The times are too serious, the stakes are too high for this same
> partisan playbook. So let us agree that patriotism has no party. I
> love this country, and so do you, and so does John McCain. The men and
> women who serve in our battlefields may be Democrats and Republicans
> and independents, but they have fought together and bled together and
> some died together under the same proud flag. They have not served a
> Red America or a Blue America -- they have served the United States of
> America.
> So I've got news for you, John McCain. We all put our country first.
> America, our work will not be easy. The challenges we face require
> tough choices, and Democrats as well as Republicans will need to cast
> off the worn-out ideas and politics of the past. For part of what has
> been lost these past eight years can't just be measured by lost wages
> or bigger trade deficits. What has also been lost is our sense of
> common purpose. That's what we have to restore.
> We may not agree on abortion, but surely we can agree on reducing the
> number of unwanted pregnancies in this country. The reality of gun
> ownership may be different for hunters in rural Ohio than they are for
> those plagued by gang-violence in Cleveland, but don't tell me we
> can't uphold the Second Amendment while keeping AK-47s out of the
> hands of criminals. I know there are differences on same-sex marriage,
> but surely we can agree that our gay and lesbian brothers and sisters
> deserve to visit the person they love in the hospital and to live
> lives free of discrimination. You know, passions may fly on
> immigration, but I don't know anyone who benefits when a mother is
> separated from her infant child or an employer undercuts American
> wages by hiring illegal workers. But this, too, is part of America's
> promise -- the promise of a democracy where we can find the strength
> and grace to bridge divides and unite in common effort.
> I know there are those who dismiss such beliefs as happy talk. They
> claim that our insistence on something larger, something firmer and
> more honest in our public life is just a Trojan Horse for higher taxes
> and the abandonment of traditional values. And that's to be expected.
> Because if you don't have any fresh ideas, then you use stale tactics
> to scare voters. If you don't have a record to run on, then you paint
> your opponent as someone people should run from.
> You make a big election about small things.
> And you know what -- it's worked before. Because it feeds into the
> cynicism we all have about government. When Washington doesn't work,
> all its promises seem empty. If your hopes have been dashed again and
> again, then it's best to stop hoping, and settle for what you already
> know.
> I get it. I realize that I am not the likeliest candidate for this
> office. I don't fit the typical pedigree, and I haven't spent my
> career in the halls of Washington.
> But I stand before you tonight because all across America something is
> stirring. What the naysayers don't understand is that this election
> has never been about me. It's about you. It's about you.
> For 18 long months, you have stood up, one by one, and said enough to
> the politics of the past. You understand that in this election, the
> greatest risk we can take is to try the same old politics with the
> same old players and expect a different result. You have shown what
> history teaches us -- that at defining moments like this one, the
> change we need doesn't come from Washington. Change comes to
> Washington. Change happens because the American people demand it --
> because they rise up and insist on new ideas and new leadership, a new
> politics for a new time.
> America, this is one of those moments.
> I believe that as hard as it will be, the change we need is coming.
> Because I've seen it. Because I've lived it. Because I've seen it in
> Illinois, when we provided health care to more children and moved more
> families from welfare to work. I've seen it in Washington, where we
> worked across party lines to open up government and hold lobbyists
> more accountable, to give better care for our veterans and keep
> nuclear weapons out of the hands of terrorist.
> And I've seen it in this campaign. In the young people who voted for
> the first time, and the young at heart, those who got involved again
> after a very long time. In the Republicans who never thought they'd
> pick up a Democratic ballot, but did. I've seen it in the workers who
> would rather cut their hours back a day even though they can't afford
> it than see their friends lose their jobs, in the soldiers who re-
> enlist after losing a limb, in the good neighbors who take a stranger
> in when a hurricane strikes and the floodwaters rise.
> You know, this country of ours has more wealth than any nation, but
> that's not what makes us rich. We have the most powerful military on
> Earth, but that's not what makes us strong. Our universities and our
> culture are the envy of the world, but that's not what keeps the world
> coming to our shores.
> Instead, it is that American spirit -- that American promise -- that
> pushes us forward even when the path is uncertain; that binds us
> together in spite of our differences; that makes us fix our eye not on
> what is seen, but what is unseen, that better place around the bend.
> That promise is our greatest inheritance. It's a promise I make to my
> daughters when I tuck them in at night, and a promise that you make to
> yours -- a promise that has led immigrants to cross oceans and
> pioneers to travel west; a promise that led workers to picket lines,
> and women to reach for the ballot.
> And it is that promise that 45 years ago today, brought Americans from
> every corner of this land to stand together on a Mall in Washington,
> before Lincoln's Memorial, and hear a young preacher from Georgia
> speak of his dream.
> The men and women who gathered there could've heard many things. They
> could've heard words of anger and discord. They could've been told to
> succumb to the fear and frustration of so many dreams deferred.
> But what the people heard instead -- people of every creed and color,
> from every walk of life -- is that in America, our destiny is
> inextricably linked. That together, our dreams can be one.
> "We cannot walk alone," the preacher cried. "And as we walk, we must
> make the pledge that we shall always march ahead. We cannot turn
> back."
> America, we cannot turn back. Not with so much work to be done. Not
> with so many children to educate, and so many veterans to care for.
> Not with an economy to fix and cities to rebuild and farms to save.
> Not with so many families to protect and so many lives to mend.
> America, we cannot turn back. We cannot walk alone. At this moment, in
> this election, we must pledge once more to march into the future. Let
> us keep that promise -- that American promise -- and in the words of
> Scripture hold firmly, without wavering, to the hope that we confess.
> Thank you, God Bless you, and God Bless the United States of America