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* Remarks of Senator Barack Obama -- Final Primary Night
Tues., June 3, 2008 19:02:11 ET
Tonight, after fifty-four hard-fought contests, our primary season has
finally come to an end.
Sixteen months have passed since we first stood together on the steps of the
Old State Capitol in Springfield, Illinois. Thousands of miles have been
traveled. Millions of voices have been heard. And because of what you said
-- because you decided that change must come to Washington; because you
believed that this year must be different than all the rest; because you
chose to listen not to your doubts or your fears but to your greatest hopes
and highest aspirations, tonight we mark the end of one historic journey
with the beginning of another -- a journey that will bring a new and better
day to America. Tonight, I can stand before you and say that I will be the
Democratic nominee for President of the United States.
I want to thank every American who stood with us over the course of this
campaign -- through the good days and the bad; from the snows of Cedar
Rapids to the sunshine of Sioux Falls. And tonight I also want to thank the
men and woman who took this journey with me as fellow candidates for
President.
At this defining moment for our nation, we should be proud that our party
put forth one of the most talented, qualified field of individuals ever to
run for this office. I have not just competed with them as rivals, I have
learned from them as friends, as public servants, and as patriots who love
America and are willing to work tirelessly to make this country better. They
are leaders of this party, and leaders that America will turn to for years
to come.
That is particularly true for the candidate who has traveled further on this
journey than anyone else. Senator Hillary Clinton has made history in this
campaign not just because she's a woman who has done what no woman has done
before, but because she's a leader who inspires millions of Americans with
her strength, her courage, and her commitment to the causes that brought us
here tonight.
We've certainly had our differences over the last sixteen months. But as
someone who's shared a stage with her many times, I can tell you that what
gets Hillary Clinton up in the morning -- even in the face of tough odds --
is exactly what sent her and Bill Clinton to sign up for their first
campaign in Texas all those years ago; what sent her to work at the
Children's Defense Fund and made her fight for health care as First Lady;
what led her to the United States Senate and fueled her barrier-breaking
campaign for the presidency -- an unyielding desire to improve the lives of
ordinary Americans, no matter how difficult the fight may be. And you can
rest assured that when we finally win the battle for universal health care
in this country, she will be central to that victory. When we transform our
energy policy and lift our children out of poverty, it will be because she
worked to help make it happen. Our party and our country are better off
because of her, and I am a better candidate for having had the honor to
compete with Hillary Rodham Clinton.
There are those who say that this primary has somehow left us weaker and
more divided. Well I say that because of this primary, there are millions of
Americans who have cast their ballot for the very first time. There are
Independents and Republicans who understand that this election isn't just
about the party in charge of Washington, it's about the need to change
Washington.Ê There are young people, and African-Americans, and Latinos, and
women of all ages who have voted in numbers that have broken records and
inspired a nation.
All of you chose to support a candidate you believe in deeply. But at the
end of the day, we aren't the reason you came out and waited in lines that
stretched block after block to make your voice heard. You didn't do that
because of me or Senator Clinton or anyone else. You did it because you know
in your hearts that at this moment -- a moment that will define a generation
-- we cannot afford to keep doing what we've been doing. We owe our children
a better future. We owe our country a better future. And for all those who
dream of that future tonight, I say -- let us begin the work together. Let
us unite in common effort to chart a new course for America.
In just a few short months, the Republican Party will arrive in St. Paul
with a very different agenda. They will come here to nominate John McCain, a
man who has served this country heroically. I honor that service, and I
respect his many accomplishments, even if he chooses to deny mine. My
differences with him are not personal; they are with the policies he has
proposed in this campaign.
Because while John McCain can legitimately tout moments of independence from
his party in the past, such independence has not been the hallmark of his
presidential campaign.
It's not change when John McCain decided to stand with George Bush
ninety-five percent of the time, as he did in the Senate last year.
It's not change when he offers four more years of Bush economic policies
that have failed to create well-paying jobs, or insure our workers, or help
Americans afford the skyrocketing cost of college -- policies that have
lowered the real incomes of the average American family, widened the gap
between Wall Street and Main Street, and left our children with a mountain
of debt.ÊÊÊ
And it's not change when he promises to continue a policy in Iraq that asks
everything of our brave men and women in uniform and nothing of Iraqi
politicians -- a policy where all we look for are reasons to stay in Iraq,
while we spend billions of dollars a month on a war that isn't making the
American people any safer.
So I'll say this -- there are many words to describe John McCain's attempt
to pass off his embrace of George Bush's policies as bipartisan and new. But
change is not one of them.
Change is a foreign policy that doesn't begin and end with a war that
should've never been authorized and never been waged. I won't stand here and
pretend that there are many good options left in Iraq, but what's not an
option is leaving our troops in that country for the next hundred years --
especially at a time when our military is overstretched, our nation is
isolated, and nearly every other threat to America is being ignored.
We must be as careful getting out of Iraq as we were careless getting in -
but start leaving we must. It's time for Iraqis to take responsibility for
their future. It's time to rebuild our military and give our veterans the
care they need and the benefits they deserve when they come home. It's time
to refocus our efforts on al Qaeda's leadership and Afghanistan, and rally
the world against the common threats of the 21st century -- terrorism and
nuclear weapons; climate change and poverty; genocide and disease. That's
what change is.
Change is realizing that meeting today's threats requires not just our
firepower, but the power of our diplomacy -- tough, direct diplomacy where
the President of the United States isn't afraid to let any petty dictator
know where America stands and what we stand for. We must once again have the
courage and conviction to lead the free world. That is the legacy of
Roosevelt, and Truman, and Kennedy. That's what the American people want.
That's what change is.Ê
Change is building an economy that rewards not just wealth, but the work and
workers who created it. It's understanding that the struggles facing working
families can't be solved by spending billions of dollars on more tax breaks
for big corporations and wealthy CEOs, but by giving a the middle-class a
tax break, and investing in our crumbling infrastructure, and transforming
how we use energy, and improving our schools, and renewing our commitment to
science and innovation. It's understanding that fiscal responsibility and
shared prosperity can go hand-in-hand, as they did when Bill Clinton was
President.
John McCain has spent a lot of time talking about trips to Iraq in the last
few weeks, but maybe if he spent some time taking trips to the cities and
towns that have been hardest hit by this economy -- cities in Michigan, and
Ohio, and right here in Minnesota -- he'd understand the kind of change that
people are looking for.
Maybe if he went to Iowa and met the student who works the night shift after
a full day of class and still can't pay the medical bills for a sister who's
ill, he'd understand that she can't afford four more years of a health care
plan that only takes care of the healthy and wealthy. She needs us to pass
health care plan that guarantees insurance to every American who wants it
and brings down premiums for every family who needs it. That's the change we
need.
Maybe if he went to Pennsylvania and met the man who lost his job but can't
even afford the gas to drive around and look for a new one, he'd understand
that we can't afford four more years of our addiction to oil from dictators.
That man needs us to pass an energy policy that works with automakers to
raise fuel standards, and makes corporations pay for their pollution, and
oil companies invest their record profits in a clean energy future -- an
energy policy that will create millions of new jobs that pay well and can't
be outsourced. That's the change we need.
And maybe if he spent some time in the schools of South Carolina or St. Paul
or where he spoke tonight in New Orleans, he'd understand that we can't
afford to leave the money behind for No Child Left Behind; that we owe it to
our children to invest in early childhood education; to recruit an army of
new teachers and give them better pay and more support; to finally decide
that in this global economy, the chance to get a college education should
not be a privilege for the wealthy few, but the birthright of every
American. That's the change we need in America. That's why I'm running for
President.
The other side will come here in September and offer a very different set of
policies and positions, and that is a debate I look forward to. It is a
debate the American people deserve. But what you don't deserve is another
election that's governed by fear, and innuendo, and division. What you won't
hear from this campaign or this party is the kind of politics that uses
religion as a wedge, and patriotism as a bludgeon -- that sees our opponents
not as competitors to challenge, but enemies to demonize. Because we may
call ourselves Democrats and Republicans, but we are Americans first. We are
always Americans first.
Despite what the good Senator from Arizona said tonight, I have seen people
of differing views and opinions find common cause many times during my two
decades in public life, and I have brought many together myself. I've walked
arm-in-arm with community leaders on the South Side of Chicago and watched
tensions fade as black, white, and Latino fought together for good jobs and
good schools. I've sat across the table from law enforcement and civil
rights advocates to reform a criminal justice system that sent thirteen
innocent people to death row. And I've worked with friends in the other
party to provide more children with health insurance and more working
families with a tax break; to curb the spread of nuclear weapons and ensure
that the American people know where their tax dollars are being spent; and
to reduce the influence of lobbyists who have all too often set the agenda
in Washington.
In our country, I have found that this cooperation happens not because we
agree on everything, but because behind all the labels and false divisions
and categories that define us; beyond all the petty bickering and
point-scoring in Washington, Americans are a decent, generous, compassionate
people, united by common challenges and common hopes. And every so often,
there are moments which call on that fundamental goodness to make this
country great again.
So it was for that band of patriots who declared in a Philadelphia hall the
formation of a more perfect union; and for all those who gave on the fields
of Gettysburg and Antietam their last full measure of devotion to save that
same union.
So it was for the Greatest Generation that conquered fear itself, and
liberated a continent from tyranny, and made this country home to untold
opportunity and prosperity.
So it was for the workers who stood out on the picket lines; the women who
shattered glass ceilings; the children who braved a Selma bridge for
freedom's cause.
So it has been for every generation that faced down the greatest challenges
and the most improbable odds to leave their children a world that's better,
and kinder, and more just.
And so it must be for us.
America, this is our moment. This is our time. Our time to turn the page on
the policies of the past. Our time to bring new energy and new ideas to the
challenges we face. Our time to offer a new direction for the country we
love.
The journey will be difficult. The road will be long. I face this challenge
with profound humility, and knowledge of my own limitations. But I also face
it with limitless faith in the capacity of the American people. Because if
we are willing to work for it, and fight for it, and believe in it, then I
am absolutely certain that generations from now, we will be able to look
back and tell our children that this was the moment when we began to provide
care for the sick and good jobs to the jobless; this was the moment when the
rise of the oceans began to slow and our planet began to heal; this was the
moment when we ended a war and secured our nation and restored our image as
the last, best hope on Earth. This was the moment -- this was the time --
when we came together to remake this great nation so that it may always
reflect our very best selves, and our highest ideals. Thank you, God Bless
you, and may God Bless the United States of America.Ê
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Eddie Vale - Press Secretary
Progressive Media USA
202-609-7692 (office)
631-334-8191 (cell)
EddVale (AIM)
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