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8.28.08
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BARACK OBAMA SPEECH AT DEMOCRATIC NATIONAL CONVENTION
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'Eight Years is Enough'
Greatscat! — Remarks of Senator Barack Obama "The American Promise" Democratic National Convention August 28, 2008 Denver, Colorado As prepared for delivery ---- 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 United States. . Let me express my thanks to the historic slate of candidates who accompanied me on this journey, and especially the one who traveled the farthest - a champion for working Americans and an inspiration to my daughters and to yours -- Hillary Rodham Clinton. To President Clinton, who last night made the case for ...

Obama’s Speech
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The Moment When Our Planet Began to Heal
The Brussels Journal - The Voice of Conservatism in Europe — This moment in history, destined to be a where-were-you moment for the present crop of twentysomethings, was mostly missed by me. A morning en route from California to Texas via the miracle of aviation left me with a few minutes in the Phoenix airport, where I did not watch the televised Inauguration in progress, but rather those watching it. The scene is now familiar to anyone who has watched the watchers of Barack Obama over the past year: misty-eyed, rapt, mostly young, mostly female, disproportionately minority — and strangely possessed by a weird admixture of joy and anxiety that recalls nothing so much as the aftermath of a difficult birth. Perhaps this is no ...

Steven G. Brant: Remember Pres. Obama: "It's the culture (not health care), stupid!"
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com — President Obama will be giving a speech on health care reform on Wednesday. Here's why I hope he'll speak on transforming the culture of politics here in America instead. The Obama administration was smart to avoid the mistake the Clinton Administration made during its 1993 attempt at health care reform. You cannot impose reform from the top. Not if you expect that reform to last. Large-scale, systemic change requires the support of as many players as possible, so the final plan can be successfully implemented. But what I hope President Obama realizes is there's a hugely applicable lesson in what Bill Clinton and his team did right ...

Steven G. Brant: Remember, Pres. Obama: "It's the Culture (Not Health Care), Stupid!"
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com — President Obama will be giving a speech on health care reform on Wednesday. Here's why I hope he'll speak on transforming the culture of politics here in America instead. The Obama administration was smart to avoid the mistake the Clinton administration made during its 1993 attempt at health care reform. You cannot impose reform from the top. Not if you expect that reform to last. Large-scale, systemic change requires the support of as many players as possible, so the final plan can be successfully implemented. But what I hope President Obama realizes is that there's a hugely applicable lesson in what Bill Clinton and his team did ...

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