2004 DNC: "There is not a black America, a white America, a Latino America, an Asian America. There's the United States of America!"
I was deeply moved as I watched this. This was an awe inspiring, profound speech that went beyond a simple endorsement. We saw Chris Dodd endorse Obama, that was an endorsement. This was a Vision for All of America, an America that truly is "E Pluribus Unum - Out of Many, One"...
"Sometimes we say things with great confidence, only to find out that we are speaking the wrong language.
That's happening to Hillary Clinton right now. She is talking the language of experience, hard work, traditional Democratic values, and the rough and tumble politics that has come to dominate Washington.
The problem is that is not the language in which many voters are listening. Their mother tongue grew out of Obamaland. Or, more accurately, he arrived in their universe speaking the language they
"We are in a defining moment in our history" ... "Our nation is at war. The planet is in peril. The DREAM that so many generations fought for feels as if it's slowly slipping away. And that is why the same old Washington textbook campaigns just won't do it. That's why telling the American people what we think they WANT to hear, instead of telling the American people what they NEED to hear, just won't do it." "America, OUR MOMENT IS NOW," ..."I don't want to spend the next year, or the next four years, refig
"Hope! is what lead me here today! With a father from Kenya and a mother from Kansas and a story that could only happen in the United States of America! I Have a Dream! (MLK) I got a dream, we gonna work it out...
America, NOW is our time, for our generation, to work it out, to end division and separation and embrace unity and togetherness in the pursuit of our common interests as citizens of the United States of America, together, indivisible, out of many, one....
Considering that Hillary Clinton has decided to attack Barack Obama by using fear, it is good to know that Bill Clinton said in 2004 that it is better to vote fo someone who's message is hope over fear.
"Now one of Clinton's laws of politics is this. If one candidate's trying to scare you and the other one's trying to get you to think, if one candidate's appealing to your fears and the other one's appealing to your hopes, you better vote for the person who wants you to think and hope."
http://transcri