This link has been bookmarked by 7 people . It was first bookmarked on 05 Nov 2008, by Stefanos Karagos.
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22 Oct 19
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's the answer told by lines that stretched around schools and churches in numbers this nation has never seen, by people who waited three hours and four hours, many for the first time in their lives, because they believed that this time must be different, that their voices could be that difference.
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"It's the answer spoken by young and old, rich and poor, Democrat and Republican, black, white, Hispanic, Asian, Native American, gay, straight, disabled and not disabled, Americans who sent a message to the world that we have never been just a collection of individuals or a collection of red states and blue states
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"And I would not be standing here tonight without the unyielding support of my best friend for the last 16 years, the rock of our family, the love of my life, the nation's next first lady Michelle Obama.
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"Our campaign was not hatched in the halls of Washington. It began in the backyards of Des Moines and the living rooms of Concord and the front porches of Charleston.
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It was built by working men and women
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the cause
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a government of the people, by the people, and for the people has not perished from the Earth.
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the worst financial crisis in a century
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And we know the government can't solve every problem
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block by block, brick by brick, calloused hand by calloused hand
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democracy, liberty, opportunity and unyielding hope
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A man touched down on the moon, a wall came down in Berlin, a world was connected by our own science and imagination
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11 Feb 17
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"It's been a long time coming, but tonight, because of what we did on this date in this election at this defining moment, change has come to America.
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05 Nov 08
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