Barack Obama

well __PUNCT__ we ar in the middl of a veri close race right now in texa __PUNCT__ and we mai not even know the final result until morn __PUNCT__

we do know that senat_clinton ha won rhode_island __PUNCT__ and while there ar a lot of vote to be count in ohio __PUNCT__ it look like she did well there too __PUNCT__ and so we congratul her on those state __PUNCT__

we also know that we have won the state of vermont __PUNCT__

and we know thi __PUNCT__ no matter what happen tonight __PUNCT__ we have nearli the same deleg lead as we did thi morn __PUNCT__ and we ar on our wai to win thi nomin __PUNCT__

you know __PUNCT__ decad_ago __PUNCT__ as a commun_organ __PUNCT__ i learn that the real work of democraci begin far from the close_door and marbl hall of washington __PUNCT__

it begin on street_corner and front_porch __PUNCT__ in live_room and meet hall with ordinari_american who see the world as it is and realiz that we have it within our power to remak the world as it should be __PUNCT__

it is with that hope that we began thi unlik journei __PUNCT__ the hope that if we could go block by block __PUNCT__ citi by citi __PUNCT__ state by state and build a movement that span race and region __PUNCT__ parti and gender __PUNCT__ if we could give young_peopl a reason to vote and the young at heart a reason to believ again __PUNCT__ if we could inspir a nation to come togeth again __PUNCT__ then we could turn the page on the polit that shut us out __PUNCT__ let us down __PUNCT__ and told us to settl __PUNCT__

we could write a new chapter in the american stori __PUNCT__

we were told thi wasn't possibl __PUNCT__

we were told the climb wa too steep __PUNCT__

we were told our countri wa too cynic __PUNCT__ that we were just be naïv __PUNCT__ that we couldn't realli chang the world as it is __PUNCT__

but then a few peopl in iowa stood up to sai __PUNCT__ ye we can __PUNCT__

and then a few more of you stood up from the hill of new hampshir to the coast of south_carolina __PUNCT__

and then a few million of you stood up from savannah to seattl __PUNCT__ from bois to baton roug __PUNCT__

and tonight __PUNCT__ becaus of you __PUNCT__ becaus of a movement you built that stretch from vermont green mountain to the street of san_antonio __PUNCT__ we can stand up with confid and clariti to sai that we ar turn the page __PUNCT__ and we ar readi to write the next great chapter in america stori __PUNCT__

in the come week __PUNCT__ we will begin a great debat about the futur of thi countri with a man who ha serv it brave and love it dearli __PUNCT__

and tonight __PUNCT__ i call john_mccain and congratul him on win the republican_nomin __PUNCT__

but in thi elect __PUNCT__ we will offer two veri differ vision of the america we see in the twenti __PUNCT__ first centuri __PUNCT__

becaus john_mccain mai claim long_histori of straight talk and independ __PUNCT__ think __PUNCT__ and i respect that __PUNCT__

but in thi campaign __PUNCT__ he fallen in line behind the veri same polici that have ill __PUNCT__ serv america __PUNCT__

he ha seen where georg_bush ha taken our countri __PUNCT__ and he promis to keep us on the veri same cours __PUNCT__

it the same cours that threaten a centuri of war in iraq __PUNCT__ a third and fourth and fifth tour of duti for brave troop who done all we ask them to __PUNCT__ even while we ask littl and expect noth of the iraqi_govern whose job it is to put their countri_back togeth __PUNCT__

a cours where we spend billion of dollar a week that could be us to rebuild our road and our school __PUNCT__ to care for our veteran and send our children to colleg __PUNCT__

it the same cours that continu to divid and isol america from the world by substitut bluster and bulli for direct diplomaci __PUNCT__ by ignor our alli and refus to talk to our enemi even though presid from kennedi to reagan have done just that __PUNCT__ becaus strong countri and strong leader aren't afraid to tell hard truth to petti dictat __PUNCT__

and it the same cours that offer the same tire answer to worker without health_care and famili without home __PUNCT__ to student in debt and children who go to bed hungri in the richest nation on earth __PUNCT__ four more year of tax_break for the biggest corpor and the wealthiest few who don't need them and aren't even ask for them __PUNCT__

it a cours that further divid wall_street from main_street __PUNCT__ where struggl famili ar told to pull themselv up by their bootstrap becaus there noth govern can do or should do __PUNCT__ and so we should give more to those with the most and let the chip fall where thei mai __PUNCT__

well we ar here tonight to sai that thi is not the america we believ in and thi is not the futur we want __PUNCT__

we want a new cours for thi countri __PUNCT__

we want new leadership in washington __PUNCT__

we want chang in america __PUNCT__

john_mccain and senat_clinton echo each other in dismiss thi call for chang __PUNCT__

thei sai it is eloqu but empti __PUNCT__ speech and not solut __PUNCT__

and yet __PUNCT__ thei should know that it a call that did not begin with my word __PUNCT__

it began with word that were spoken on the floor of factori in ohio and across the deep plain of texa __PUNCT__ word that came from classroom in south_carolina and live_room in the state of iowa __PUNCT__ from first __PUNCT__ time voter and life __PUNCT__ long cynic __PUNCT__ from democrat and republican alik __PUNCT__

thei should know that there noth empti about the call for afford health_care that came from the young student who told me she get three hour of sleep becaus she work the night shift after a full dai of colleg and still can't pai her sister medic_bill __PUNCT__

there noth empti about the call for help that came from the mother in san_antonio who saw her mortgag doubl in two week and didn't know where her two __PUNCT__ year old would sleep at night when thei were kick out of their home __PUNCT__

there noth empti about the call for chang that came from the elderli woman who want it so badli that she sent me an envelop with a monei order for __MONEY__ and a simpl vers of scriptur tuck insid __PUNCT__

these american know that govern cannot solv all of our problem __PUNCT__ and thei don't expect it to __PUNCT__

american know that we have to work_harder and studi more to compet in a global_economi __PUNCT__

we know that we need to take respons for ourselv and our children __PUNCT__ that we need to spend more time with them __PUNCT__ and teach them well __PUNCT__ and put a book in their hand instead of a video_game onc in awhil __PUNCT__

we know thi __PUNCT__

but we also believ that there is a larger respons we have to on anoth as american __PUNCT__

we believ that we rise or fall as on nation __PUNCT__ as on peopl __PUNCT__

that we ar our brother keeper __PUNCT__

that we ar our sister keeper __PUNCT__

we believ that a child born tonight should have the same chanc whether she arriv in the barrio of san_antonio or the suburb of st __PUNCT__ loui __PUNCT__ on the street of chicago or the hill of appalachia __PUNCT__

we believ that when she goe to school for the first time __PUNCT__ it should be in a place where the rat don't outnumb the comput __PUNCT__ that when she appli to colleg __PUNCT__ cost is no barrier to a degre that will allow her to compet with children in china or india for the job of the twenti __PUNCT__ first centuri __PUNCT__

we believ that these job should provid wage that can rais her famili __PUNCT__ health_care for when she get sick and a pension for when she retir __PUNCT__

we believ that when she tuck her own children into bed __PUNCT__ she should feel safe know that thei ar protect from the threat we face by the bravest __PUNCT__ best __PUNCT__ equip __PUNCT__ militari in the world __PUNCT__ led by a command __PUNCT__ in __PUNCT__ chief who ha the judgment to know when to send them into battl and which battlefield to fight on __PUNCT__

and if that child should ever get the chanc to travel the world __PUNCT__ and someon should ask her where she is from __PUNCT__ we believ that she should alwai be abl to hold her head high with pride in her voic when she answer __PUNCT__ i am an american __PUNCT__

that is the cours we seek __PUNCT__

that is the chang we ar call for __PUNCT__

you can call it mani thing __PUNCT__ but you cannot call it empti __PUNCT__

if i am the nomine of thi parti __PUNCT__ i will not allow us to be distract by the same polit that seek to divid us with fals charg and meaningless label __PUNCT__

in thi campaign __PUNCT__ we will not stand for the polit that us religion as a wedg __PUNCT__ and patriot as a bludgeon __PUNCT__

i ow what i am to thi countri i love __PUNCT__ and i will never forget it __PUNCT__

where els could a young_man who grew up herd goat in kenya get the chanc to fulfil hi dream of a colleg_educ __PUNCT__ where els could he marri a white girl from kansa whose parent surviv war and depress to find opportun out west __PUNCT__ where els could thei have a child who would on dai have the chanc to run for the highest offic in the greatest nation the world ha ever known __PUNCT__ where els __PUNCT__ but in the unit_state of america __PUNCT__

it is now my hope and our task to set thi countri on a cours that will keep thi promis aliv in the twenti __PUNCT__ first centuri __PUNCT__

and the ey of the world ar watch to see if we can __PUNCT__

there is a young_man on my campaign whose grandfath live in uganda __PUNCT__

he is __NUM___year old and ha never experienc true democraci in hi lifetim __PUNCT__

dure the reign of idi amin __PUNCT__ he wa liter hunt and the onli reason he escap wa thank to the kind of other and a few good __PUNCT__ size trunk __PUNCT__

and on the night of the iowa_caucus __PUNCT__ that __NUM__ __PUNCT__ year __PUNCT__ old man stai up until five in the morn __PUNCT__ huddl by hi televis __PUNCT__ wait for the result __PUNCT__

the world is watch what we do here __PUNCT__

the world is pai_attent to how we conduct ourselv __PUNCT__

what will we thei see __PUNCT__ what will we tell them __PUNCT__ what will we show them __PUNCT__

can we come togeth across parti and region __PUNCT__ race and religion to restor prosper and opportun as the birthright of everi american __PUNCT__

can we lead the commun of nation in take on the common threat of the __NUM___centuri __PUNCT__ terror and climat chang __PUNCT__ genocid and diseas __PUNCT__

can we send a messag to all those weari travel beyond our shore who long to be free from fear and want that the unit_state of america is __PUNCT__ and alwai will be __PUNCT__ the last best __PUNCT__ hope of earth __PUNCT__

we sai __PUNCT__ we hope __PUNCT__ we believ __PUNCT__ ye we can __PUNCT__