President Barack Obama's Remarks at the 2012 Democratic National Convention - Full Speech

Publiée le 6 sept. 2012 par BarackObamadotcom

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PRESIDENT OBAMA: Thank you.

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Thank you.

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Thank you so much.

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AUDIENCE: Four more years! Four more years! Four more years! Four more years!

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PRESIDENT OBAMA: Thank you

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AUDIENCE: Four more years! Four more years! Four more years! Four more years! Four more

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years!

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PRESIDENT OBAMA: Thank you so much

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AUDIENCE: Four more years! Four more years!

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PRESIDENT OBAMA: Thank you

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AUDIENCE: Four more years! Four more years!

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PRESIDENT OBAMA: Thank you very much everybody

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Thank you

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[CHEERS AND APPLAUSE]

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Michelle, I love you so much.

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[HOOTS]

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A few nights ago everybody was reminded just what a lucky man I am.

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[CHEERS AND APPLAUSE]

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The other night, I think the entire country saw just how lucky I am. Malia and Sasha,

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we are so proud of you.

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[CHEERS]

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And yes, you do have to go to school in the morning.

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[LAUGHTER]

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And Joe Biden, thank you for being the best Vice President I could have ever hoped for,

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and being a strong and loyal friend.

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[CHEERS AND APPLAUSE]

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Madam Chairwoman, delegates, I accept your nomination for President of the United States.

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[EXTENDED CHEERS AND APPLAUSE]

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AUDIENCE: Four more years! Four more years! Four more years! Four more years! Four more

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years! Four more years!

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PRESIDENT OBAMA: The first time I addressed this convention in 2004, I was a younger man.

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[LAUGHER]

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A Senate candidate from Illinois who spoke about hope – not blind optimism or wishful

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thinking, but hope in the face of difficulty; hope in the face of uncertainty; that dogged

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faith in the future which has pushed this nation forward, even when the odds are great;

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even when the road is long.

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Eight years later, that hope has been tested– by the cost of war; by one of the worst

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economic crises in history; and by political gridlock that’s left us wondering whether

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it’s still even possible to tackle the challenges of our time.

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I know that campaigns can seem small, and

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even silly sometimes. Trivial things become big distractions. Serious issues become

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sound bites. And the truth gets buried under an avalanche of money and advertising. If

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you’re sick of hearing me approve this message, believe me – so am I.

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[LAUGHTER]

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[CHEERS AND APPLAUSE]

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But when all is said and done – when you pick up that ballot to vote – you will face

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the clearest choice of any time in a generation. Over the next few years, big decisions will

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be made in Washington, on jobs and the economy; taxes and deficits; energy and education;

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war and peace – decisions that will have a huge impact on our lives and on our children’s

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lives for decades to come.

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On every issue, the choice you face won’t just be between two candidates or two parties.

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It will be a choice between two different

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paths for America.

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A choice between two fundamentally different visions for the future.

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Ours is a fight to restore the values that

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built the largest middle class and the strongest economy the world has ever known.

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[CHEERS AND APPLAUSE] The values my grandfather defended as a soldier

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in Patton’s Army; the values that drove my grandmother to work on a bomber assembly

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line while he was gone.

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They knew they were part of something larger– a nation that triumphed over fascism and

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depression; a nation where the most innovative businesses turned out the world’s best products,

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and everyone shared in the pride and success– from the corner office to the factory

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floor. My grandparents were given the chance to go to college, buy their own, their own

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home, and fulfill the basic bargain at the heart of America’s story: the promise

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that hard work will pay off; that responsibility will be rewarded; that everyone gets a fair

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shot, and everyone does their fair share, and everyone plays by the same rules – from

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Main Street to Wall Street to Washington, DC.

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[CHEERS AND APPLAUSE]

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I ran for President because I saw that basic bargain slipping away. I began my career

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helping people in the shadow of a shuttered steel mill, at a time when too many good jobs

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were starting to move overseas. And by 2008, we had seen nearly a decade in which families

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struggled with costs that kept rising but paychecks that didn’t; folks racking up

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more and more debt just to make the mortgage or pay tuition; to put gas in the car or food

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on the table. And when the house of cards collapsed in the Great Recession, millions

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of innocent Americans lost their jobs, their homes, and their life savings – a tragedy

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from which we’re still fighting to recover.

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Now, our friends down in Tampa at the Republican convention were more than happy to talk about

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everything they think is wrong with America, but they didn’t have much to say about how

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they’d make it right.

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[APPLAUSE]

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They want your vote, but they don’t want you to know their plan. And that’s because

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all they have to offer is the same prescriptions they’ve had for the last thirty years:

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“Have a surplus? Try a tax cut.”

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“Deficit too high? Try another.”

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[LAUGHTER]

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“Feel a cold coming on? Take two tax cuts, roll back some regulations, and call us in

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the morning!”

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[EXTENDED CHEERS AND APPLAUSE]

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Now, I’ve cut taxes for those who need it--

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[HOOTS]

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– middle-class families and small businesses. But I don’t believe that another round of

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tax breaks for millionaires will bring good jobs to our shores, or pay down our deficit.

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I don’t believe that firing teachers or kicking students off financial aid will grow

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the economy, or help us compete with the scientists and engineers coming out of China.

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[CHEERS AND APPLAUSE]

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After all that we’ve been through, I don’t believe that rolling back regulations on Wall

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Street will help the small businesswoman expand, or the laid-off construction worker keep his

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home. We have been there, we’ve tried that, and we’re not going back. We’re

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moving forward, America.

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[CHEERS AND APPLAUSE]

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Now I won’t pretend the path I’m offering is quick or easy. I never have. You didn’t

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elect me to tell you what you wanted to hear. You elected me to tell you the truth.

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[CHEERS AND APPLAUSE]

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And the truth is, it will take more than a few years for us to solve challenges that

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have built up over decades. It will require common effort, shared responsibility, and

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the kind of bold, persistent experimentation that Franklin Roosevelt pursued during the

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only crisis worse than this one. And by the way – those of us who carry on his party’s

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legacy should remember that not every problem can be remedied with another government program

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or dictate from Washington.

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But know this, America: Our problems can be solved.

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[CHEERS]

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Our challenges can be met. The path we offer may be harder, but it leads to a better place.

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And I’m asking you to choose that future. I’m asking you to rally around a set of

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goals for your country – goals in manufacturing, energy, education, national security, and

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the deficit; a real, achievable plan that will lead to new jobs, more opportunity, and

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rebuild this economy on a stronger foundation. That’s what we can do in the next four years,

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and that is why I’m running for a second term as President of the United States.

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[EXTENDED CHEERS AND APPLAUSE]

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AUDIENCE: Four more years! Four more years! Four more years! Four more years!

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PRESIDENT OBAMA: We can choose a future where we export more products and outsource fewer

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jobs. After a decade that was defined by what we bought and borrowed, we’re getting

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back to basics, and doing what America has always done best:

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We’re making things again.

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I’ve met workers in Detroit and Toledo…

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[CHEERS]

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…who feared they’d never build another American car. Today, they can’t build

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them fast enough, because we reinvented a dying auto industry that’s back on the top

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of the world.

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[CHEERS AND APPLAUSE]

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AUDIENCE: U.S.A! U.S.A! U.S.A! U.S.A! U.S.A!

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PRESIDENT OBAMA: I’ve worked with business leaders who are bringing jobs back to America

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– not because our workers make less pay, but because we make better products.

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[CHEERS]

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Because we work harder and smarter than anyone else.

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I’ve signed trade agreements that are helping

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our companies sell more goods to millions of new customers – goods that are stamped

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with three proud words: Made in America.

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[CHEERS AND APPLAUSE]

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AUDIENCE: U.S.A! U.S.A! U.S.A! U.S.A! U.S.A! U.S.A! U.S.A! U.S.A!

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PRESIDENT OBAMA: After a decade of decline, this country created over half a million manufacturing

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jobs in the last two and a half years. And now you have a choice: we can give more

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tax breaks to corporations that ship jobs overseas, or we can start rewarding companies

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that open new plants and train new workers and create new jobs here, in the United States

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of America.

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[CHEERS AND APPLAUSE]

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We can help big factories and small businesses double their exports, and if we choose this

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path, we can create a million new manufacturing jobs in the next four years. You can make

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that happen. You can choose that future.

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You can choose the path where we control more of our own energy. After thirty years of

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inaction, we raised fuel standards so that by the middle of the next decade, cars and

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trucks will go twice as far on a gallon of gas.

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[CHEERS AND APPLAUSE]

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We’ve doubled our use of renewable energy, and thousands of Americans have jobs today

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building wind turbines and long-lasting batteries. In the last year alone, we cut oil imports

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by one million barrels a day – more than any administration in recent history.

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[CHEERS]

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And today, the United States of America is less dependent on foreign oil than at any

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time in nearly two decades.

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[CHEERS AND APPLAUSE]

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So now you have a choice – between a strategy that reverses this progress, or one that builds

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on it. We’ve opened millions of new acres for oil and gas exploration in the last three

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years, and we’ll open more. But unlike my opponent, I will not let oil companies

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write this country’s energy plan, or endanger our coastlines, or collect another $4 billion

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in corporate welfare from our taxpayers.

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[CHEERS AND APPLAUSE]

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We’re offering a better path – where we, a future where we keep investing in wind and

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solar and clean coal; where farmers and scientists harness new biofuels to power our cars and

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trucks; where construction workers build homes and factories that waste less energy; where

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we develop a hundred year supply of natural gas that’s right beneath our feet. If

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you choose this path, we can cut our oil imports in half by 2020 and support more than 600,000

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new jobs in natural gas alone.

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And yes, my plan will continue to reduce the carbon pollution that is heating our planet

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– because climate change is not a hoax. More droughts and floods and wildfires are

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not a joke. They’re a threat to our children’s future. And in this election, you can do

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something about it.

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[CHEERS AND APPLAUSE]

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You can choose a future where more Americans have the chance to gain the skills they need

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to compete, no matter how old they are or how much money they have. Education was

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the gateway to opportunity for me. It was the gateway for Michelle. It was the gateway

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for most of you. And now more than ever, it is the gateway to a middle-class life.

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For the first time in a generation, nearly

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every state has answered our call to raise their standards for teaching and learning.

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Some of the worst schools in the country have made real gains in math and reading. Millions

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of students are paying less for college today because we finally took on a system that wasted

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billions of taxpayer dollars on banks and lenders.

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And now you have a choice – we can gut education,

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or we can decide that in the United States of America, no child should have her dreams

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deferred because of a crowded classroom or a crumbling school. No family should have

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to set aside a college acceptance letter because they don’t have the money. No company

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should have to look for workers overseas because they couldn’t find any with the right skills

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here at home. That’s not our future. That is not our future.

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[CHEERS AND APPLAUSE]

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Government has a role in this. But teachers must inspire; principals must lead; parents

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must instill a thirst for learning, and students, you’ve got to do the work. And together,

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I promise you – we can out-educate and out-compete any nation on Earth. So help me, help me

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recruit 100,000 math and science teachers in the next ten years, and improve early childhood

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education.

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[CHEERS AND APPLAUSE]

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Help give two million workers the chance to learn skills at their community college that

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will lead directly to a job. Help us work with colleges and universities to cut in half

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the growth of tuition costs over the next ten years. We can meet that goal together.

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You can choose that future for America.

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[EXTENDED CHEERS AND APPLAUSE]

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That’s our future. You know, in a world

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of new threats and new challenges, you can choose leadership that has been tested and

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proven. Four years ago, I promised to end the war in Iraq. We did.

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[CHEERS AND APPLAUSE]

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I promised to refocus on the terrorists who actually attacked us on 9/11. And we have.

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[CHEERS AND APPLAUSE]

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We’ve blunted the Taliban’s momentum in Afghanistan, and in 2014, our longest war

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will be over.

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[CHEERS AND APPLAUSE]

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A new tower rises above the New York skyline, al Qaeda is on the path to defeat, and Osama

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bin Laden is dead.

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[EXTENDED CHEERS AND APPLAUSE]

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AUDIENCE: U.S.A! U.S.A! U.S.A! U.S.A! U.S.A! U.S.A! U.S.A! U.S.A! U.S.A!

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PRESIDENT OBAMA: Tonight, we pay tribute to the Americans who still serve in harm’s

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way. We are forever in debt to a generation whose sacrifice has made this country safer

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and more respected. We will never forget you. And so long as I’m Commander-in-Chief,

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we will sustain the strongest military the world has ever known. When you take off

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the uniform, we will serve you as well as you’ve served us – because no one who

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fights for this country should have to fight for a job, or a roof over their head, or the

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care that they need when they come home.

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Around the world, we’ve strengthened old alliances and forged new coalitions to stop

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the spread of nuclear weapons. We’ve reasserted our power across the Pacific and stood up

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to China on behalf of our workers. From Burma to Libya to South Sudan, we have advanced

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the rights and dignity of all human beings– men and women; Christians and Muslims

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and Jews.

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But for all the progress that we’ve made, challenges remain. Terrorist plots must

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be disrupted. Europe’s crisis must be contained. Our commitment to Israel’s

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security must not waver, and neither must our pursuit of peace.

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[CHEERS]

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The Iranian government must face a world that stays united against its nuclear ambitions.

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The historic change sweeping across the Arab World must be defined not by the iron fist

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of a dictator or the hate of extremists, but by the hopes and aspirations of ordinary people

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who are reaching for the same rights that we celebrate here today.

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[CHEERS]

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So now we face a choice. My opponent and his running mate are new to foreign policy…

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[LAUGHTER]

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…but from all that we’ve seen and heard, they want to take us back to an era of blustering

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and blundering that cost America so dearly.

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After all, you don’t call Russia our number one enemy – and not al Qaeda, Russia – unless

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you’re still stuck in a Cold War time warp. You might not be ready for diplomacy with

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Beijing if you can’t visit the Olympics without insulting our closest ally.

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[APPLAUSE AND CHEERS]

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My opponent said it was “tragic” to end the war in Iraq, and he won’t tell us how

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he’ll end the war in Afghanistan. Well I have, and I will.

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[CHEERS AND APPLAUSE]

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And while my opponent would spend more money on military hardware that our Joint Chiefs

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don’t even want, I’ll use the money we’re no longer spending on war to pay down our

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debt and put more people back to work

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[CHEERS AND APPLAUSE]

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– rebuilding roads and bridges; schools and runways. After two wars that have cost

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us thousands of lives and over a trillion dollars, it’s time to do some nation-building

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right here at home.

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[CHEERS AND APPLAUSE]

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You can choose a future where we reduce our deficit without sticking it to the middle

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class. Independent analysis shows that my plan would cut our deficits by $4 trillion.

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Last summer, I worked with Republicans in Congress to cut $1 billion in spending – because

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those of us who believe government can be a force for good should work harder than anyone

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to reform it, so that it’s leaner, more efficient, and more responsive to the American

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people.

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[APPLAUSE]

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I want to reform the tax code so that it’s simple, fair, and asks the wealthiest households

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to pay higher taxes on incomes over $250,000– the same rate we had when Bill Clinton

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was president; the same rate we had when our economy created nearly 23 million new jobs,

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the biggest surplus in history, and a whole lot of millionaires to boot.

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Now, I’m still eager to reach an agreement

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based on the principles of my bipartisan debt commission. No party has a monopoly on wisdom.

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No democracy works without compromise. I want to get this done, and we can get it done.

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But when Governor Romney and his allies in Congress tell us we can somehow lower our

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deficits by spending trillions more on new tax breaks for the wealthy – well, what

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did Bill Clinton call it? “Well, you do the arithmetic.” You do the math. I refuse

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to go along with that. And as long as I’m President, I never will.

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[CHEERS]

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I refuse to ask middle class families to give up their deductions for owning a home or raising

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their kids just to pay for another millionaire’s tax cut.

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[CHEERS AND APPLAUSE]

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I refuse to ask students to pay more for college; or kick children out of Head Start programs,

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or eliminate health insurance for millions of Americans who are poor, elderly, or disabled

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– all so those with the most can pay less.

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[CHEERS AND APPLAUSE]

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I’m not going along with that!

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[EXTENDED CHEERS AND APPLAUSE]

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AUDIENCE MEMBER: Four more years! Four more years! Four more years!

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PRESIDENT OBAMA: And I will never turn Medicare

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into a voucher.

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[CHEERS AND APPLAUSE]

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No American should ever have to spend their golden years at the mercy of insurance companies.

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They should retire with the care and dignity they have earned. Yes, we will reform and

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strengthen Medicare for the long haul, but we’ll do it by reducing the cost of health

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care – not by asking seniors to pay thousands of dollars more.

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[AUDIENCE MEMBER HOOTS LOUDLY]

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And we will keep the promise of Social Security by taking the responsible steps to strengthen

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it – not by turning it over to Wall Street.

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[CHEERS AND APPLAUSE]

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This is the choice we now face. This is what the election comes down to. Over and

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over, we have been told by our opponents that bigger tax cuts and fewer regulations are

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the only way; that since government can’t do everything, it should do almost nothing.

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If you can’t afford health insurance, hope that you don’t get sick. If a company

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releases toxic pollution into the air your children breathe, well, that’s just the

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price of progress. If you can’t afford to start a business or go to college, take

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my opponent’s advice and “borrow money from your parents.”

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[LAUGHTER, APPLAUSE, BOOS]

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You know what? That’s not who we are. That’s not what this country’s about.

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As Americans, we believe we are endowed by our Creator with certain inalienable rights

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– rights that no man or government can take away. We insist on personal responsibility

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and we celebrate individual initiative. We’re not entitled to success. We have

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to earn it. We honor the strivers, the dreamers, the risk-takers, the entrepreneurs who have

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always been the driving force behind our free enterprise system – the greatest engine

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of growth and prosperity the world has ever known.

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But we also believe in something called citizenship.

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[CHEERS AND APPLAUSE]

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Citizenship – a word at the very heart of our founding, at the very essence of our democracy;

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the idea that this country only works when we accept certain obligations to one another,

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and to future generations.

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We believe that when a CEO pays his autoworkers enough to buy the cars that they build, the

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whole company does better.

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[CHEERS AND APPLAUSE]

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We believe that when a family can no longer be tricked into signing a mortgage they can’t

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afford, that family is protected, but so is the value of other people’s homes, and so

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is the entire economy.

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[CHEERS AND APPLAUSE]

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We believe that a little girl who’s offered an escape from poverty by a great teacher

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or a grant for college could become the next Steve Jobs, or the scientist who cures cancer,

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or the President of the United States – and it is in our power to give her that chance.

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[EXTENDED CHEERS AND APPLAUSE]

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We know that churches and charities can often make more of a difference than a poverty program

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alone. We don’t want handouts for people who refuse to help themselves, and we certainly

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don’t want bailouts for banks that break the rules. We don’t think government can

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solve all our problems. But we don’t think that government is the source of all our problems

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– any more than are welfare recipients, or corporations, or unions, or immigrants,

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or gays, or any other group we’re told to blame for our troubles.

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[EXTENDED CHEERS AND APPLAUSE]

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Because, because America, we understand that this democracy is ours.

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We, the People, recognize that we have responsibilities

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as well as rights; that our destinies are bound together; that a freedom which asks

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only what’s in it for me, a freedom without a commitment to others, a freedom without

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love or charity or duty or patriotism, is unworthy of our founding ideals, and those

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who died in their defense.

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[CHEERS AND APPLAUSE]

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As citizens, we understand that America is not about what can be done FOR us. It’s

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about what can be done BY us, together, through the hard and frustrating but necessary work

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of self-government. That’s what we believe.

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So you see, the election four years ago wasn’t about me. It was about you. My fellow

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citizens – you were the change.

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[CHEERS]

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You’re the reason there’s a little girl with a heart disorder in Phoenix who’ll

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get the surgery she needs because an insurance company can’t limit her coverage. You

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did that.

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[CHEERS AND APPLAUSE]

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You’re the reason a young man in Colorado who never thought he’d be able to afford

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his dream of earning a medical degree is about to get that chance. You made that possible.

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You’re the reason a young immigrant who

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grew up here and went to school here and pledged allegiance to our flag will no longer be deported

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from the only country she’s ever called home.

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[CHEERS AND APPLAUSE]

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Why selfless soldiers won’t be kicked out of the military because of who they are or

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who they love; why thousands of families have finally been able to say to the loved ones

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who served us so bravely: “Welcome home.”

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[EXTENDED CHEERS AND APPLAUSE]

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“Welcome home.” You did that! You did that! You did that!

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[CHEERS AND APPLAUSE]

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If you turn away now – if you buy into the cynicism that the change we fought for isn’t

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possible…well, change will not happen. If you give up on the idea that your voice

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can make a difference, then other voices will fill the void: lobbyists and special interests;

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the people with the $10 million checks who are trying to buy this election and those

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who are trying to make it harder for you to vote; Washington politicians who want to decide

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who you can marry, or control health care choices that women should be making for themselves.

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[CHEERS AND APPLAUSE]

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Only you can make sure that doesn’t happen. Only you have the power to move us forward.

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[CHEERS, INDIVIDUAL AUDIENCE MEMBERS SHOUT EMOTIONALLY]

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I recognize that times have changed since

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I first spoke to this convention. The times have changed – and so have I.

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I’m no longer just a candidate. I’m

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the President.

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[EXTENDED CHEERS AND APPLAUSE]

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And that, and that…

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AUDIENCE: Four more years! Four more years!

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PRESIDENT OBAMA: And that means I know what it means to send young Americans into battle,

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for I have held in my arms the mothers and fathers of those who didn’t return. I’ve

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shared the pain of families who’ve lost their homes, and the frustration of workers

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who’ve lost their jobs. If the critics are right that I’ve made all my decisions

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based on polls, then I must not be very good at reading them.

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[LAUGHTER]

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And while I’m very proud of what we’ve achieved together, I’m far more mindful

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of my own failings, knowing exactly what Lincoln meant when he said, “I have been driven

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to my knees many times by the overwhelming conviction that I had no place else to go.”

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[CHEERS AND APPLAUSE]

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But as I stand here tonight, I have never been more hopeful about America.

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[CHEERS]

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Not because I think I have all the answers. Not because I’m naïve about the magnitude

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of our challenges.

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I’m hopeful because of you.

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The young woman I met at a science fair who won national recognition for her biology research

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while living with her family at a homeless shelter – she gives me hope.

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[CHEERS AND APPLAUSE]

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The auto worker who won the lottery after his plant almost closed, but kept coming to

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work every day, and bought flags for his whole town and one of the cars that he built to

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surprise his wife – he gives me hope.

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[CHEERS]

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The family business in Warroad, Minnesota…

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[ISOLATED PART OF AUDIENCE CHEERS]

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…that didn’t lay off a single one of their four thousand employees during this recession,

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even when their competitors shut down dozens of plants, even when it meant the owners gave

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up some perks and some pay – because they understood their biggest asset was the community

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and the workers who had helped build that business – they give me hope.

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[CHEERS AND APPLAUSE]

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AUDIENCE MEMBER: Hope!

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PRESIDENT OBAMA: And I think about the young sailor I met at Walter Reed hospital, still

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recovering from a grenade attack that would cause him to have his leg amputated above

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the knee. Six months ago, we would watch him walk into a White House dinner honoring

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those who served in Iraq, tall and twenty pounds heavier, dashing in his uniform, with

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a big grin on his face; sturdy on his new leg. And I remember how a few months after

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that I would watch him on a bicycle, racing with his fellow wounded warriors on a sparkling

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spring day, inspiring other heroes who had just begun the hard path he had traveled.

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He gives me hope.

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[CHEERS AND APPLAUSE]

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He gives me hope. I don’t know what party these men and women belong to. I don’t

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know if they’ll vote for me. But I know that their spirit defines us. They remind

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me, in the words of Scripture, that ours is a “future filled with hope.”

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[HOOTS AND CHEERS]

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And if you share that faith with me – if you share that hope with me – I ask you

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tonight for your vote.

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FEMALE AUDIENCE MEMBER: You got our vote!

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[EXTENDED CHEERS AND APPLAUSE]

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PRESIDENT OBAMA: If you reject the notion that this nation’s promise is reserved for

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the few, your voice must be heard in this election.

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SAME AUDIENCE MEMBER: You will!

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[ENDURING CHEERS AND APPLAUSE]

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PRESIDENT OBAMA: If you reject the notion that our government is forever beholden to

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the highest bidder, you need to stand up in this election.

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[CHEERS AND APPLAUSE]

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If you believe that new plants and factories can dot our landscape; that new energy can

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power our future; that new schools can provide ladders of opportunity to this nation of dreamers;

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if you believe in a country where everyone gets a fair shot, and everyone does their

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fair share, and everyone plays by the same rules, then I need you to vote this November.

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[HOOTS, ENDURING CHEERS AND APPLAUSE]

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America, I never said this journey would be easy, and I won’t promise that now. Yes,

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our path is harder – but it leads to a better place.

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AUDIENCE: Yes!

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PRESIDENT OBAMA: Yes our road is longer – but we travel it together.

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AUDIENCE: Yes!

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PRESIDENT OBAMA: We don’t turn back.

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AUDIENCE: No!

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PRESIDENT OBAMA: We leave no one behind.

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AUDIENCE: No!

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PRESIDENT OBAMA: We pull each other up.

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[ENDURING CHEERS AND APPLAUSE WHILE OBAMA CONTINUES]

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We draw strength from our victories, and we learn from our mistakes, but we keep our eyes

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fixed on that distant horizon, knowing that Providence is with us, and that we are surely

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blessed to be citizens of the greatest nation on Earth.

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Thank you, God bless you, and may God bless

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these United States.

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[CHEERS AND APPLAUSE GROW]

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[“WE TAKE CARE OF OUR OWN” BY BRUCE SPRINGSTEIN PLAYS]

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♫ I've been knockin' on the door that holds the throne ♫

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♫ I've been lookin' for the map that leads me home ♫

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♫ I've been stumblin' on good hearts turned to stone ♫

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♫ The road of good intentions has gone dry as bone ♫

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♫ We take care of our own ♫

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♫ We take care of our own ♫

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♫ Wherever this flag's flown ♫

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♫ We take care of our own ♫

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♫ We take care of our own ♫

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♫ We take care of our own ♫

Publiée le 6 sept. 2012 par BarackObamadotcom