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2011-01-13 06:38 AM

CARLITOS BAM-BAM
Dallas, TX
Posts: 897

Powerful and awe inspiring words from President Barack H. Obama......

"All of us, we should do everthing that we can do to make sure that this country lives up to our children's expectations!"

2011-01-13 11:07 AM

Schmidt
Colorado Springs, CO
Posts: 1058

It was a great speech, right up there with many of his more memorable speeches. I couldn't get the link above to work, but you can watch the speech at The Atlantic website along with the transcript as delivered.

There are many parts of the speech worth mentioning and reflecting upon, but for me his closing remarks on the 9 year old Christiana were the most memorable. Extract from speech as delivered;

And I believe that for all our imperfections, we are full of decency and goodness, and that the forces that divide us are not as strong as those that unite us. (Applause.)

That's what I believe, in part because that's what a child like Christina Taylor Green believed. (Applause.)

Imagine -- imagine for a moment, here was a young girl who was just becoming aware of our democracy; just beginning to understand the obligations of citizenship; just starting to glimpse the fact that some day she, too, might play a part in shaping her nation's future. She had been elected to her student council. She saw public service as something exciting and hopeful. She was off to meet her congresswoman, someone she was sure was good and important and might be a role model. She saw all this through the eyes of a child, undimmed by the cynicism or vitriol that we adults all too often just take for granted.

I want to live up to her expectations. (Applause.) I want our democracy to be as good as Christina imagined it. I want America to be as good as she imagined it. (Applause.) All of us -- we should do everything we can to make sure this country lives up to our children's expectations. (Applause.)

As has already been mentioned, Christina was given to us on September 11th, 2001, one of 50 babies born that day to be pictured in a book called "Faces of Hope." On either side of her photo in that book were simple wishes for a child's life. "I hope you help those in need," read one. "I hope you know all the words to the National Anthem and sing it with your hand over your heart." (Applause.) "I hope you jump in rain puddles."

If there are rain puddles in Heaven, Christina is jumping in them today. (Applause.) And here on this Earth -- here on this Earth, we place our hands over our hearts, and we commit ourselves as Americans to forging a country that is forever worthy of her gentle, happy spirit.

May God bless and keep those we've lost in restful and eternal peace. May He love and watch over the survivors. And may He bless the United States of America. (Applause.)

2011-01-13 04:20 PM

argmex1987
Il, IL
Posts: 4

In my opinion it was a good speech. And listening to sarah palin's speech. It's very clear why Barack Obama is the president. And sarah palin is not and why she never will be(because she is to dumb).

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