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Barack Obama
Democratic National Convention Presidential Nomination Acceptance
delivered
[AUTHENTICITY
CERTIFIED: Text version below transcribed directly from audio]
Thank you so much. Thank you very much. Thank you
everybody.
To -- 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 the presidency of the
Let me -- Let me express -- Let me express my thanks to
the historic slate of candidates who accompanied 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 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 -- the next First Lady, Michelle
Obama; and to Mahlia and Sasha,
I love you so much and I am 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
It is that promise that's 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.
It's why I stand here tonight. Because for two hundred
and thirty two 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 cards bills [sic] 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
We're a better country than one where a man in Indiana
has to pack up the equipment that's he's worked on for twenty years and watch
as its 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 --
that sits on its hands while a major American city drowns before our eyes.
Tonight -- Tonight I say to the people of
This moment -- This moment -- this election is our chance to keep, in the 21st
century, the American promise alive. Because next week, in
Now -- Now let me -- let -- 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 ninety percent
of the time. Senator 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
ninety percent of the time? I -- I don't know about you, but I'm not ready to
take a ten 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, Senator McCain
has been anything but independent. He says 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 advisors -- 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 everyday 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 burden
silently as they watch their loved ones leave for there 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 Senator 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 five million dollars 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 one hundred 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 -- 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
You see -- 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 dollars instead of go down 2,000
dollars, 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 G.I. 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 -- 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 who 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 -- 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
What -- 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 obligations 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 -- 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
That's the promise we need to keep. That's the change we
need right now.
So -- So let me -- 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 companies 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 start-ups that will create the
high-wage, high-tech jobs of tomorrow. I will -- listen now -- I will 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
We will do this.
As President -- 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
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
Now -- Now is the time to finally keep the promise of
affordable, accessible health care for every single American. If you have
health care -- 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 -- 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
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
And, Democrats -- Democrats, we must also admit that
fulfilling
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 -- For while -- while Senator McCain was turning his
sights to
That's not the judgment we need; that won't keep
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
These -- 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
We may not agree on abortion, but surely we can agree on
reducing the number of unwanted pregnancies in this country.
The -- The reality of gun ownership may be different for
hunters in rural
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 a 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
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
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
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
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
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 -- 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 frustrations 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
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
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