If you missed Obama's speech, go see it or read it now
You can watch it here on CNN.
You can read it here on CNN.
Consider doing both. An articulate President, one who can write and who works on his own speeches. What a thrill.
Consider this bit:
It drew strength from the not-so-young people who braved the bitter cold and scorching heat to knock on doors of perfect strangers, and from the millions of Americans who volunteered and organized and proved that more than two centuries later a government of the people, by the people, and for the people has not perished from the Earth.
He doesn't tell us who first used that phrasing; he assumes we know, as we should, as he should assume.
I'm still so wound up I can hardly stand it.
For now, for tonight, maybe for a little while, I simply refuse to be cynical.
Tonight, I don't just want to believe. I do believe. I believe.
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i am not the most sentimental person - and i'm so sick of politics, after this nearly-endless electoral cycle, that all i really want is for everyone to go away for a week or two.
and yet, i'm sitting here dripping tears onto my keyboard.
"This is our time, to put our people back to work and open doors of opportunity for our kids; to restore prosperity and promote the cause of peace; to reclaim the American dream and reaffirm that fundamental truth, that, out of many, we are one; that while we breathe, we hope. And where we are met with cynicism and doubts and those who tell us that we can't, we will respond with that timeless creed that sums up the spirit of a people: Yes, we can."
yes, we will.
- lisa
I hope so and intend to try to help make it so.
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