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John KY believes in
America and he knows that it's not
enough for just some of us to prosper
for alongside our famous individualism
there's another ingredient in the
American Saga a belief that we're all
connected as one people if there is a
child on the south side of Chicago who
can't read that matters to me even if
it's not my child if there's a senior
citizen somewhere who can't pay for
their prescription drugs and having to
choose between medicine and the rent
that makes my life poor even if it's not
my
grandparent if there's an Arab American
family being rounded up without benefit
of an attorney or due process that
threatens my civil
liberties it is that fundamental
belief it is that fundamental belief I
am my brother's keeper I am My Sister's
Keeper that makes this country
work it's what allows us to pursue our
individual dreams and yet still come
together as one American Family e pluris
UNAM out of many
one now even as we speak there are those
who are preparing to divide us the Spin
Masters the negative ad Peddlers who
embrace the politics of anything goost
well I say to them tonight there is not
a liberal America and a conservative
America there is the United States of
America there is not a Black America and
a white America and Latino America and
Asian America there's the United States
of
America the pundants the pundits like to
slice and dice our country into red
States and blue States
red States for Republicans blue States
for Democrats but I've got news for them
too we worship an awesome God in the
blue States and we don't like federal
agents poking around in our libraries in
the red
States we coach little league in the
blue States and yes we've got some gay
friends in the red
states there are patriots who oppose the
war in Iraq and their Patriots who
supported the war in Iraq We Are One
people all of us pledging allegiance to
the Stars and Stripes all of us
defending the United States of
America in the
end in the end in the end that's what
this election is
about do we participate in a politics of
cynicism or do we participate in a
politics of
Hope John KY calls on us to Hope John
Edwards calls on us to hope I'm not
talking about blind optimism here the
almost willful ignorance that thinks
unemployment will go away if we just
don't think about it or Health Care
crisis will solve itself if we just
ignore it that's not what I'm talking
about I'm talking about something more
substantial it's the hope of slaves
sitting around a fire singing freedom
songs the hope of immigrants setting out
for diff Distant
Shores the hope of a young Naval
Lieutenant bravely patrolling the makong
Delta the hope of a mill worker's son
who dares to defy the odds the hope of a
skinny kid with a funny name who
believes that America has a place for
him
too hope hope in the face of difficulty
hope in the face of
uncertainty The Audacity Of Hope in the
end that is God's greatest gift to us
the Bedrock of this nation a belief in
Things Not Seen A belief that they're
better days ahead I believe that we can
give our middle class relief and provide
Working Families with a road to
opportunity I believe we can provide
jobs to the jobless homes to the
homeless and reclaim young people in
cities across America from violence and
despair I believe that we have a
righteous wind at our backs and that as
we stand on the cross roads of History
we can make the right choices and meet
the challenges that face US America
tonight if you feel the same energy that
I do if you feel the same urgency that I
do if you feel the same passion that I
do if you feel the same hopefulness that
I do if we do what we must do then I
have no doubt that all across the
country from Florida to Oregon from
Washington to Maine the people will rise
up in November and John Cary will be
sworn in as president and John Edwards
will be sworn in as vice president and
this country will reclaim its promise
and out of this long political Darkness
a brighter day will come thank you very
much everybody God bless you thank you
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