ここ数日、おバカなことを書いてきたので
ちとマジメに…　(＾＾；)


あれよ、あれよという間に
オバマ人気が本物になってきたようです。

そこで、オバマ氏について
多少調べてみると
ケネディ以来の名演説家とか。
changeを多用するところは
コイズミを連想させてイヤですが……　(＾＾；)


下記で、スピーチの録音が聴けます。
（向うのＷＥＢのすごさを実感します）

I will be a president や
This was the moment を、たたみかけるところなんて
感動的ですね。
（シェークピアの『ジュリアス・シーザー』の
　ブルータスの演説を彷彿とさせるようです）

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http://lifehacking.jp/2008/01/obama-speech/

http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0801/03/se.04.html から


OBAMA: You said the time hascome to move beyond the bitterness
and pettiness and anger that's consumed Washington...
(CHEERING AND APPLAUSE)

OBAMA: ... to end the political strategy that has been all about division, and instead make it about addition, to build a coalition for change that stretches through red states and blue states...
(CHEERING AND APPLAUSE)

OBAMA: ... because that's how we will win in November, and that'show we will finally meet the challenges that we face as a nation.

(CHEERING AND APPLAUSE)

OBAMA: We are choosing hope over fear.
(CHEERING AND APPLAUSE)

OBAMA: We're choosing unity over division and sending a powerful message that change is coming to America.
(CHEERING AND APPLAUSE)
CROWD: USA! USA! USA! USA!

OBAMA: You said the time has come to tell the lobbyists, who think their money and their influence speak louder than our voices,
that they don't own this government.
We do. Andwe are here to take it back.
(CHEERING AND APPLAUSE)

OBAMA: The time has come for a president who will be honest about the choices and the challenges we face, who will listen to you, and learn from you, even when we disagree,who won't just tell you what you want to hear, but what you need to know.
(CHEERING AND APPLAUSE)

OBAMA: And, in New Hampshire, ifyou give me the same chance that
Iowa did tonight, I will be that president for America.
(CHEERING AND APPLAUSE)

CROWD: Obama! Obama! Obama!Obama! Obama!
Obama! Obama! Obama!Obama!> Obama!
(CHEERING AND APPLAUSE)

OBAMA: I will be a president who finally makes health care affordable and available to every single American, the same way I expanded health care in Illinois, by...
(CHEERING AND APPLAUSE)

OBAMA: ... by bringing Democrats and Republicans together to get the job done.
I will be a president who ends the tax breaks for companies that ship our jobs overseas, and put amiddle-class tax cuts into the pockets of working Americans, who deserve it.
(CHEERING AND APPLAUSE)

OBAMA: I will be a president who harnesses the ingenuity of farmers and scientists and entrepreneurs to free this nation from the tyrannyof oil, once and for all.
(CHEERING AND APPLAUSE)

OBAMA: And I will be a president who ends this war in Iraq and finally brings our troops home...
(CHEERING AND APPLAUSE)

OBAMA: ... who restores our moral standing, who understands that 9/11is not a way to scare up votes, buta challenge that should unite America and the world against the commonthreats of the 21st century...
(CHEERING AND APPLAUSE)

OBAMA: ... common threats of terrorism and nuclear weapons,climate change and poverty, genocide and disease.
Tonight, we are one step closer to that vision of America becauseof what you did here in Iowa.And, so, I would especially like to thank the organizers, and the precinct captains, the volunteers...
(CHEERING AND APPLAUSE)

OBAMA: ... and the staff, who made this all possible.
And while I'm at it on thank-yous, I think it makes sense for me to thank the love of my life, the rock of the Obama family, the closer on the campaign trail.
Give it up for Michelle Obama.
(CHEERING AND APPLAUSE)

OBAMA: I know you didn't do this for me.
You did this -- you did this because you believed so deeply in the most American of ideas, that,in the face of impossible odds,people who love this country can change it.
(CHEERING AND APPLAUSE)

OBAMA: I know this.
I know this because, while I may be standing here tonight,
I will never forget that my journey began on the streets of Chicago doing what so many of you have done for this campaign and all the campaigns here in Iowa,organizing and working and fighting to make people's lives just a little bit better.
(CHEERING AND APPLAUSE)

OBAMA: I know how hard it is.
It comes with little sleep, little pay and a lot of sacrifice.
There aredays of disappointment.
But, sometimes, just sometimes,there are nights like this... (CHEERING AND APPLAUSE)

OBAMA: ... a night -- a nightthat, years from now, when we have made the changes we believe in, when more families can afford to see a doctor, when our children -- when Malia and Sasha and your children inherit a planet that's a little cleaner and safer, when the world sees America differently, and America sees itself as a nation less divided and more united, you will be ableto look back with pride and say that this was the moment when it all began.
(CHEERING AND APPLAUSE)

OBAMA: This was the moment when the improbable beat what Washington always said was inevitable.
This was the moment when we tore down barriers that have divided us for too long, when we rallied people of all parties and ages to a common cause;
when we finally gave Americans who have never participated inpolitics a reason to stand up and to do so.
(CHEERING AND APPLAUSE)

OBAMA: This was the moment when we finally beat back
the politics of fear and doubts and cynicism,
the politics where we tear each other down,
instead of lifting this country up.
This was the moment.
(CHEERING AND APPLAUSE)

OBAMA: Years from now, you will look back and you will say that
this was the moment.
This was the place where America remembered what it means to hope.
For many months, we have been teased, even derided, for talking about hope.
But we always knew that hope is not blind optimism.
It'snot ignoring the enormity of thet asks ahead or the roadblocks that stand in our path.
It's not sitting on the sidelines or shirking from a fight.
Hope is that thing inside us that insists, despite all the evidence to the contrary, that something better awaits us if we have the courage to reach for it and to work for itand to fight for it.
(CHEERING AND APPLAUSE)

OBAMA: Hope is what I saw in the eyes of the young woman in Cedar Rapids who works the night shift after a full day of college, and still can't afford health care for a sister who's ill,
a young woman who still believes that this country will give her the chance to live out her dreams.
Hope is what I heard in the voice of the New Hampshire woman who told me that she hasn't been able to breathe since her nephew left for Iraq, who still goes to bed each night praying for his safe return.
Hope is what led a band of colonists to rise up against an empire, what led the greatest of generations to free a continent and heal a nation, what led young women and youn gmen to sit at lunch counters and brave fire hoses and march through Selma and Montgomery for freedom's cause.
(CHEERING AND APPLAUSE)

OBAMA: Hope -- hope is what led me here today, with a father from Kenya, a mother from Kansas, and a story that could only happen in the United States of America.
(CHEERING AND APPLAUSE)

OBAMA:Hope is the bedrock of this nation,the belief that our destiny will not be written for us, but by us, byall those men and women
who are not content to settle for the world asit is,
who have the courage to remake the world as it should be.

That is what we started here in Iowa,
and that is the message we can now carry to New Hampshire
and beyond...
(CHEERING AND APPLAUSE)

OBAMA: ... the same message we had when we were up and
when we were down, the one that can change this country,
brick by brick, block by block, callous hand by callous hand, that, together, ordinary people can do extraordinary things, because we are not a collection of red states and blue states.
We are the United States of America.
(CHEERING AND APPLAUSE)

OBAMA: And, in this moment, in this election,
we are ready to believe again.
Thank you, Iowa.

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