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Join me at this moment in history and welcome Barack Obama.
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The President's The President's The President's The President's The President's The President's The President's The President's The President's
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Thank you so much.
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Thank you so much.
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Oh, praise and honor to God for bringing us together here today.
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Thank you so much.
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I am so grateful to see all of you.
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You guys are still 10 back there?
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Let me begin by saying thanks to all of you who have traveled from far and wide to brave the cold today.
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I know it's a little chilly, but I'm fired up.
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We all made this journey for a reason.
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It's humbling to see a crowd like this, but in my heart I know you didn't just come here for me.
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You know?
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So, you came here because you believe in what this country can be.
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In the face of war, you believe there can be peace.
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In the face of despair, you believe there can be hope.
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In the face of a politics that shut you out, that's told you to settle, that's divided us for too long,
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you believe that we can be one people, reaching out for what's possible, building that more perfect union.
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That's the journey we're on today.
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But let me tell you how I came to be here.
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As most of you know, I'm not a native of this great state.
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I'm not a native of this great state.
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I moved to Illinois over two decades ago.
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I was a young man then, just a year out of college.
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I knew no one in Chicago when I arrived was without money or family connections.
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But a group of churches had offered me a job as
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a community organizer for the grand sum of $13 ,000 a year.
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And I accepted the job sight unseen, motivated then by a single,
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simple, powerful idea, that I might play a small part in building a better America.
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My work took me to some of Chicago's poorest neighborhoods.
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I joined with pastors and laypeople to deal with communities that had been ravaged by plant closings.
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I saw that the problems people faced weren't simply local in nature, that the decisions to close a steel mill was made by distant executives,
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that the lack of textbooks and computers in a school could be traced to skewed priorities of politicians a thousand miles away,
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and that when a child turns to violence, I came to realize that there's a hole in that boy's heart that no government alone can fill.
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It was in these neighborhoods that I received the best education that I ever had, and where I learned the meaning of my Christian faith.
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After three years of this work, I went to law school because I wanted to understand how the law should work for those in need.
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I became a civil rights lawyer and taught constitutional law.
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And after a time, I came to understand that our cherished rights of liberty and equality
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depend on the active participation of an awakened electorate.
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It was with these ideas in mind that I arrived in this capital city as a state senator.
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It was here in Springfield where I saw all that is America converge, farmers and teachers Cheers.
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businessmen and laborers, all of them with a story to tell, all of them seeking a seat at the table,
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all of them clamoring to be heard.
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I made lasting friendships here, friends that I see in the audience here today.
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It was here where we learned to disagree without being disagreeable,
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that it's possible to compromise so long as you know those principles that can never be compromised,
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and that so long as we're willing to listen to each other, we can assume the best in people instead of the worst.
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It's why we were able to reform a death penalty system that was broken.
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That's why we were able to give health insurance to children in need.
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That's why we made the tax system right here in Springfield more fair and just for working families.
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And that's why we passed ethics reform that the cynics said could never, ever be passed.
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It was here in Springfield where
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North, South, East and West come together that I was reminded of the essential decency of the American people,
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where I came to believe that through this decency we can build a more hopeful America.
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And that is why, in the shadow of the old state capitol,
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where Lincoln once called on on a house divided to stand together where common hopes and common dreams still live,
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I stand before you today to announce my candidacy for President of the United States of America.
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Obama!
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Obama!
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Obama!
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Obama!
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Obama!
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Obama!
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Now, listen, I —
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I recognize that there is a certain presumptuousness in this, a certain audacity to this announcement.
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I know that I haven't spent a lot of time learning the ways of Washington.
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But I've been there long enough to know that the ways of Washington must change.
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The genius of our founders is that they designed a system of government that can be changed.
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And we should take heart because we've changed this country before.
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In the face of tyranny, a band of patriots bought an empire to its knees.
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In the face of secession, we unified a nation and set the captives free.
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In the face of depression, we put people back to work and lifted millions out of poverty.
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We welcomed immigrants to our shores.
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We opened railroads to the west we landed a man on the moon
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and we heard a king's call to let justice roll down like waters and righteousness like a mighty stream.
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We've done this before.
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Each and every time a new generation has risen up and done what's needed to be done.
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Today we are called once more, and it is time for our generation to answer that call.
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For that is our unyielding faith, that in the face of impossible odds, people who love their country can change it.
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That's what Abraham Lincoln understood.
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He had his doubts.
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He had his defeats.
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He had his skeptics, he had his setbacks, but through his will and his words, he moved a nation and helped free a people.
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It's because of the millions who rallied to his cause that we're no longer divided, North and South, slave and free.
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It's because men and women of every race, from every walk of life, continued to march
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for freedom long after Lincoln was laid to rest
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that today we had the chance to face the challenges of this millennium together as one people, as Americans.
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All of us know what those challenges are today.
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A war with no end.
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dependence on oil that threatens our future, schools where too many children are learning,
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and families struggling paycheck to paycheck despite working as hard as they can.
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We know the challenges.
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We've heard them.
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We've talked about them for years.
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What stopped us from meeting these challenges is not the absence of sound policies and sensible plans.
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What stopped us is the failure of leadership, the smallness of our politics,
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the ease with which we're distracted by the petty and trivial, our chronic avoidance of tough decisions,
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our preference for scoring cheap political points instead of rolling up our sleeves
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and building a working consensus to tackle the big problems of America.
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For the past six years, we've been told that our mounting debts don't matter.
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We've been told that the anxiety
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Americans feel about rising health care costs and stagnant wages are an illusion.
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We've been told that climate change is a hoax.
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We've been told that tough talk and an ill -conceived war can replace diplomacy and strategy and foresight.
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And when all else fails, when Katrina happens, or the death toll in Iraq mounts, we've been told that our crises are somebody else's fault.
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We're distracted from our real failures and told to blame the other party, or gay people, or immigrants.
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And as people have looked away in disillusionment and frustration, we know what's filled the avoid.
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The cynics, the lobbyists, the special interests who've turned our government into a game only they can afford to play.
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They write the checks and you get stuck with the bill.
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They get the access while you get to write a letter.
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They think they own this government, but we're here today to take it back.
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The time for that kind of politics is over.
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It It is through.
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It's time to turn the page right here and right now.
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Now look.
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Obama!
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Obama!
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Obama!
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Obama!
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Thank you.
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Thank you.
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Thank you.
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Look, look, we have made some progress already.
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I was proud to help lead the fight in Congress that led to the most sweeping ethics reforms since Watergate.
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But Washington has a long way to go, and it won't be easy.
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That's why we'll have to set priorities.
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We'll have to make hard choices.
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And although government will play a crucial role in bringing about the changes that we need.
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More money and programs alone will not get us to where we need to go.
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Each of us, in our own lives, will have to accept responsibility for instilling an ethic of achievement in our children,
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for adapting to a more competitive economy, for strengthening our communities and sharing some measure of sacrifice.
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So let us begin.
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Let us begin this hard work together.
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Let us transform this nation.
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Let us be the generation that reshapes our economy to compete in the digital age.
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Let's set high standards for our schools and give them the resources they need to succeed.
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Let's recruit a new army of teachers and give them better pay and more support in exchange for more accountability.
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Let's make college more affordable.
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And let's invest in scientific research.
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And let's lay down broadband lines through the heart of inner cities and rural towns all across America.
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We can do that.
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And as our economy changes, let's be the generation that ensures our nation's workers are sharing in our prosperity.
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Let's protect the hard -earned benefits their companies have promised.
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Let's make it possible for hardworking
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Americans to save for retirement.
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Let's allow our unions and their organizers to lift up this country's middle class again.
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We can do that.
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Let's be the generation that ends poverty in America.
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Every single person willing to work should be able to get job training that leads to a job,
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and earn a living wage that can pay the bills, and afford childcare so their kids can have a safe place to go when they work.
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We can do this.
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And let's be the generation that finally after all these years tackles our health care crisis.
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We can control costs by focusing on prevention, by providing better treatment to the chronically ill, and using technology to cut the bureaucracy.
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Let's be the generation that says right here, right now, we will have universal health care in America by the end of the next
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President's first term.
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We can do that.
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Let's be the generation that finally frees America from the tyranny of war.
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We can harness homegrown alternative fuels like ethanol and spur the production of more fuel -efficient cars.
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We can set up a system for capping greenhouse gases.
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We can turn this crisis of global warming into a moment of opportunity for innovation
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and job creation and an incentive for businesses that will serve as a model for the world.
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Let's be the generation that makes future generations proud of what we did here.
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Most of all,
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let's be the generation that never forgets what happened on that September day and confront the terrorists with everything we've got.
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Politics doesn't have to divide us on this anymore.
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We can work together to keep our country safe.
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I've worked with Republican Senator Dick Lugar to pass a law that will secure and destroy some of the world's deadliest weapons.
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We can work together to track down terrorists.
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With a stronger military, we can tighten the net around their finances.
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We can improve our intelligence capabilities and finally get
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Homeland Security right.
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But let's also understand that ultimate victory against our enemies will only come by rebuilding our alliances
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and exporting those ideals that bring hope and opportunity to millions of people around the globe.
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We can do those things.
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But all of this cannot come to pass until we bring an end to this war in Iraq.
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Most of you know that I opposed this war from the start.
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I thought it was a tragic mistake.
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Today, we grieve for the families who have lost loved ones, the hearts that have been broken, and the young lives that could have been.
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America, it is time to start bringing our troops home.
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It's time to admit that no amount of American lives can resolve the political disagreement
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that lies at the heart of someone else's civil war.
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That's why I have a plan that will bring our combat troops home by March of 2008.
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Let the Iraqis know that we will not be there forever is our last,
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best hope to pressure the Sunni and Shia to come to the table and find peace.
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And there's one other thing that it's not too late to get right about this war, and that is the homecoming of the men and women,
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our veterans, who have sacrificed the most.
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Let us honor their courage by providing the care they need and rebuilding the military they love.
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Let us be the generation that begins that work.
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I know there are those who don't believe we can do all these things.
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I understand the skepticism.
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After all, every four years, candidates from both parties make similar promises.
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I expect this year will be no different.
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All of us running for president will travel around the country offering 10 -point plans and making grand speeches.
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All of us will trumpet those qualities we believe make us uniquely qualified to lead this country.
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But too many times, after the election is over and the confetti is swept away, all those promises fade from memory,
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and the lobbyists and special interests move in, and people turn away, disappointed as before, left to struggle on their own.
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That's why this campaign can't only be about me.
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It must be about us.
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It must be about what we can do together.
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This campaign must be the occasion, the vehicle of your hopes and your dreams.
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It will take your time, your energy, and your advice to push us forward when we're doing right, and let us know when we're not.
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This campaign has to be about reclaiming the meaning of citizenship, restoring our sense of common purpose,
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and realizing that few obstacles can withstand the power of millions of voices calling for change.
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By ourselves, this change will not happen.
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Divided, we are bound to fail.
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But the life of a tall, gangly, self -made
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Springfield lawyer tells us that a different future is possible.
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He tells us that there is power in words.
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He tells us that there's power in conviction, that beneath all the differences of race and region faith and station, we are one people.
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He tells us that there is power and hope.
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As Lincoln organized the forces arrayed against slavery, he was heard to say this, of strange, discordant, and even hostile elements,
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we gathered from the four winds and formed and fought to battle through.
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That is our purpose here today.
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That is why I'm in this race, not just to hold an office, but to gather with you to transform a nation.
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I want to win that next battle for justice and opportunity.
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I want to win that next battle for better schools and better jobs and better health care for all.
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I want us to take up the unfinished business of perfecting our union and building a better America.
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And if you will join with me in this improbable quest,
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if you feel destiny calling and see as I see the future of endless possibilities stretching out before us.
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If you sense, as I sense, that the time is now to shake off our slumber
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and slough off our fears and make good on the debt we owe past and future generations,
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then I am ready to take up the cause and march with you and work with you.
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Today, together, we can finish the work that needs to be done and usher in a new birth of freedom on this earth.
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Thank you very much, everybody.
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Let's get to work.
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I love you.
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Thank you.
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Higher and higher I said your love
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Here you go

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Questa lezione di conversazione si basa sul video “Barack Obama's Presidential Announcement”. Le parole che ritornano più spesso: generation, Obama, America. Questo video contiene 229 frasi e 2806 parole da ripetere con lo shadowing. Il parlato dura 22:01. Chi parla mantiene un ritmo costante di circa 127 parole al minuto, comodo per lo shadowing. Il 86% delle parole rientra nelle 3.000 più comuni dell’inglese; conviene studiare le altre prima di iniziare.

Vocaboli chiave di questo video

15 parole del video che vale la pena imparare, con pronuncia e significato:

ParolaPronunciaSignificato
divide verbo/dɪˈvaɪd/dividere, dividersi
poverty sostantivo/ˈpɑːvɚti/povertà
wage sostantivo/weɪd͡ʒ/salario, paga
priority sostantivo/pɹaɪˈɒɹɪti/priorità
terrorist sostantivo/ˈtɛɹəɹɪst/terrorista
sacrifice sostantivo/ˈsæk.ɹɪ.faɪs/sacrificio
gather verbo/ˈɡæðɚ/raccogliere, bottinare
compromise sostantivo/ˈkɑmpɹəˌmaɪz/compromesso
tackle verbo/ˈtækəl/affrontare, contrastare
immigrant sostantivo/ˈɪmɪɡɹənt/immigrante
transform verbo/tɹænsˈfɔɹm/trasformare, modificare
sweep verbo/swiːp/spazzare, scopare
rebuild verbo/ɹiːˈbɪld/ricostruire
distract verbo/dɪˈstɹækt/distrarre
organizer sostantivo/ˈɔɹɡənaɪzɚ/organizzatore, organizzatrice

I phrasal verb che sentirai

ParolaPronunciaSignificato
take up verbosollevare, prendere
lie down verbosdraiarsi, distendersi
roll up verboarrotolare
set up verbo/ˌsɛt ˈʌp/preparare, installare
shake off verboscrollarsi di dosso (qualcosa o qualcuno)
sweep away verbospazzare via
track down verborintracciare, scovare

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Frasi brevi e complete del video che puoi riutilizzare nella conversazione di tutti i giorni:

  • That's the journey we're on today.
  • I'm not a native of this great state.
  • We've talked about them for years.
  • We've been told that climate change is a hoax.
  • That's why we'll have to set priorities.

La grammatica di questo video

Le strutture che chi parla usa di più, con le parole esatte del video:

StrutturaNel video
Present perfect have/has + participio passato — un’azione passata che conta ancora adessohave traveled · haven't spent · I've been
Forma passiva be + participio passato — conta ciò che accade, non chi lo fahad been ravaged · was made · could be traced
Frasi relative who / which + frase — un’informazione in più su una persona o una cosapeople who love · those who don

Pronuncia a cui fare attenzione

Chi parla usa 35 contrazioni e forme ridotte, come we've, we're, I'm. Pronunciale nella forma breve, così come le senti.

  • I suoni “th”: gather /ˈɡæðɚ/, ethics /ˈɛθ.ɪks/, beneath /bɪˈniːθ/, strengthen /ˈstɹɛŋ(k)θən/, threaten /ˈθɹɛt.n̩/
  • I suoni “sh” e “zh”: shadow /ˈʃædəʊ̯/, efficient /ɪˈfɪʃənt/, friendship /ˈfɹɛn(d)ʃɪp/, occasion /əˈkeɪ̯ʒən/, constitutional /ˌkɒn.stɪˈtjuː.ʃ(ə)n.(ə)l/
  • Parole lunghe — attenzione all’accento: priority /pɹaɪˈɒɹɪti/, organizer /ˈɔɹɡənaɪzɚ/, universal /ˌjunəˈvɜɹs(ə)l/, anxiety /æŋˈzaɪ.əti/, disappointed /ˌdɪsəˈpɔɪnɪd/

I suoni difficili per chi parla italiano:

  • /h/ — va soffiata, non è muta: hostile /ˈhɑstəl/, homeland /ˈhoʊmˌlænd/, hopeful /ˈhoʊpfl̩/, greenhouse /ˈɡɹːnˌ(h)aʊs/, harness /ˈhɑɹ.nəs/
  • Consonante finale — senza aggiungere una vocale dopo: divide /dɪˈvaɪd/, mount /maʊnt/, wage /weɪd͡ʒ/, terrorist /ˈtɛɹəɹɪst/, sacrifice /ˈsæk.ɹɪ.faɪs/
  • /æ/ — più aperta della “e”: sacrifice /ˈsæk.ɹɪ.faɪs/, gather /ˈɡæðɚ/, tackle /ˈtækəl/, transform /tɹænsˈfɔɹm/, distract /dɪˈstɹækt/

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