| 00:00:08 | THANK YOU. |
| 00:00:13 | THANK YOU. |
| 00:00:16 | THANK YOU. |
| 00:00:29 | MY FELLOW DEMOCRATS, MY FELLOW AMERICANS, MY FELLOW TEXANS -- I STAND BEFORE YOU TONIGHT AS A YOUNG AMERICAN, A PROUD AMERICAN, OF DEGENERATION BORN AS THE COLD WAR RECEDED, SHAPED BY THE TRAGEDY OF 9/11, AND DETERMINED TO REELECT THE MAN WHO WILL MAKE THE 21ST CENTURY ANOTHER AMERICAN CENTURY, PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA. |
| 00:01:11 | THE UNLIKE THE JOURNEY THAT BROUGHT ME HERE TONIGHT BEGAN MANY MILES FROM THIS PODIUM. |
| 00:01:16 | MY BROTHER AND I GREW UP WITH MY MOTHER AND MY GRANDMOTHER. |
| 00:01:22 | MY GRANDMOTHER WAS AN ORPHAN. |
| 00:01:25 | AS A YOUNG GIRL, SHE HAD TO LEAVE FOR HOME IN MEXICO AND MOVE TO SAN ANTONIO RELATIVES AGREED TO TAKE HER IN. |
| 00:01:32 | SHE NEVER MADE IT PAST THE FOURTH GRADE, SHE HAD TO DROP OUT AND START WORKING TO HELP WITH FAMILY. |
| 00:01:39 | MY GRANDMOTHER SPENT HER WHOLE LIFE WORKING AS A MAID, A COOK AND A BABY SITTER. |
| 00:01:44 | BARELY SCRAPING BY BUT STILL WORKING HARD TO GIVE MY MOTHER HER ONLY CHILD A CHANCE IN LIFE SO THAT MY MOTHER COULD GET MY BROTHER AND ME AN EVEN BETTER ONE. |
| 00:01:57 | AS MY GRANDMOTHER GOT OLDER, SHE BEGGED MY MOTHER TO GIVE FOR GRANDCHILDREN. |
| 00:02:02 | SHE PRAYED TO GOD FOR JUST ONE GRANDBABY BEFORE SHE DIED. |
| 00:02:05 | YOU CAN IMAGINE HER EXCITEMENT WHEN SHE FOUND OUT HER PRAYERS' WOULD BE ANSWERED TWICE OVER. |
| 00:02:12 | SHE WAS SO EXCITED THAT THE DAY BEFORE MY BROTHER AND I WERE BORN, SHE ENTERED A COOKOFF AND ONE $300. |
| 00:02:22 | THAT IS HOW SHE PAID OUR HOSPITAL BILL. |
| 00:02:25 | BY THE TIME WHEN BROTHER AND I CAME ALONG, THIS INCREDIBLE WOMAN TAUGHT HERSELF TO READ AND WRITE IN SPANISH AND ENGLISH. |
| 00:02:33 | I CAN STILL SEE HER IN THE ROOM THAT MY BROTHER AND I SHARED WITH HER, READING HER NOVELS LATE INTO THE NIGHT. |
| 00:02:41 | I CAN STILL REMEMBER HER EVERY MORNING AS MY BROTHER AND I WALKED OUT THE FRONT DOOR TO SCHOOL MAKING THE SIGN OF THE CROSS BEHIND US, SAYING MAE GOT BLASTED. |
| 00:02:56 | MY GRANDMOTHER DID NOT LIVE TO SEE AS BEGIN OUR LIVES IN PUBLIC SERVICE BUT SHE PROBABLY WOULD HAVE THOUGHT IT EXTRAORDINARY THAT ONE GRANDSON WOULD BE THE MAYOR AND THE OTHER WOULD BE ON HIS WAY. |
| 00:03:11 | THE GOOD PEOPLE OF SAN ANTONIO WILLING, TO THE UNITED STATES CONGRESS. |
| 00:03:28 | MY FAMILY'S STORY IS NOT SPECIAL. |
| 00:03:30 | WHAT IS SPECIAL IS THE AMERICA THAT MAKES OUR STORY POSSIBLE. |
| 00:03:35 | OURS IS A NATION LIKE NO OTHER. |
| 00:03:38 | A PLACE WHERE GREAT JOURNEYS CAN BE MADE IN A SINGLE GENERATION, NO MATTER WHO YOU ARE OR WHERE YOU COME FROM. |
| 00:03:44 | THE PATH AS ALWAYS FORWARD -- IS ALWAYS FORWARD. |
| 00:03:52 | AMERICA DID NOT BECOME THE LAND OF OPPORTUNITY BY ACCIDENT. |
| 00:03:56 | MY GRANDMOTHER GENERATION AND GENERATIONS BEFORE SAW BEYOND THE HORIZON OF THEIR OWN LIVES AND THEIR OWN CIRCUMSTANCES. |
| 00:04:04 | THEY BELIEVE IT THE OPPORTUNITY CREATED TODAY WOULD LEAD TO PROSPERITY TOMORROW. |
| 00:04:10 | THAT IS THE COUNTRY THEY ENVISIONED AND THAT IS THE COUNTRY THEY HELPED BUILD. |
| 00:04:15 | THE ROADS AND BRIDGES THEY BUILT, THE SCHOOLS AND UNIVERSITIES THEY CREATED, THE RIGHTS THEY FOUGHT FOR AND WON. |
| 00:04:23 | THESE OPEN THE DOORS TO A DECENT JOB, A SECURE RETIREMENT, THE CHANCE FOR YOUR CHILDREN TO DO BETTER THAN YOU DID. |
| 00:04:31 | AND THAT IS THE MIDDLE-CLASS, THE ENGINE OF OUR ECONOMIC GROWTH. |
| 00:04:36 | WITH HARD WORK, EVERYBODY OUGHT TO BE ABLE TO GET THERE AND WITH HARD WORK, EVERYBODY OUGHT TO BE ABLE TO STAY THERE. |
| 00:04:44 | AND GO BEYOND. |
| 00:04:48 | THE DREAM OF RAISING A FAMILY IN A PLACE WHERE HARD WORK IS REWARDED IS NOT UNIQUE TO AMERICANS. |
| 00:04:56 | IT IS A HUMAN DREAM. |
| 00:04:58 | ONE THAT CAUGHT -- CALLS ACROSS OCEANS AND BORDERS. |
| 00:05:03 | THE DREAM IS UNIVERSAL. |
| 00:05:04 | BUT AMERICA MAKES IT POSSIBLE AND OUR INVESTMENT AND OPPORTUNITY MAKES IT A REALITY. |
| 00:05:17 | NOW, IN TEXAS, WE BELIEVE IN THE RUGGED INDIVIDUALS -- TEXAS MAY BE THE ONE PLACE WHERE PEOPLE ACTUALLY STILL HAVE A BOOTSTRAPS. |
| 00:05:34 | AND WE EXPECT FOLKS TO PULL THEMSELVES UP BY THEM. |
| 00:05:38 | BUT WE ALSO RECOGNIZE THAT THERE ARE SOME THINGS WE CANNOT DO ALONE. |
| 00:05:44 | WE HAVE TO COME TOGETHER AND INVEST IN OPPORTUNITY TODAY FOR PROSPERITY TOMORROW. |
| 00:05:57 | AND IT STARTS WITH EDUCATION. |
| 00:06:03 | 20 YEARS AGO, MY BROTHER AND I LEFT HOME FOR COLLEGE AND THEN FOR LAW SCHOOL. |
| 00:06:09 | IN THOSE CLASSROOMS, WE MET SOME OF THE BRIGHTEST FOLKS IN THE WORLD. |
| 00:06:14 | BUT AT THE END OF OUR DAYS THERE, I COULD NOT HELP BUT TO THINK BACK TO MY CLASSMATES AT THOMAS JEFFERSON HIGH SCHOOL IN SAN ANTONIO. |
| 00:06:23 | THEY HAD THE SAME TALENTS, THE SAME BRAIN, THE SAME DREAMS AS THE FOLKS WE SAT WITH AT STANFORD AND HARVARD. |
| 00:06:29 | I REALIZE THE DIFFERENCE WAS NOT ONE OF INTELLIGENCE OR DRY. |
| 00:06:34 | THE DIFFERENCE WAS OPPORTUNITY. |
| 00:06:40 | IN MY CITY OF SAN ANTONIO, WE GET THAT. |
| 00:06:43 | SO WE ARE WORKING TO ENSURE THAT MORE FOUR-YEAR OLDS HAVE ACCESS TO PRE K. |
| 00:06:51 | WE OPENED CAFE COLLEGE WHERE STUDENTS GET HELP FOR FINANCIAL AID PEOPLE WORK IN COLLEGE PREPARATORY. |
| 00:07:05 | WE KNOW THAT PRE K AND STUDENT LOANS ARE NOT CHARITY. |
| 00:07:12 | THEY ARE A SMART INVESTMENT IN A WORK FORCE THAT CAN FILL AND CREATE THE JOBS OF TOMORROW. |
| 00:07:18 | WE ARE INVESTING IN YOUNG MINDS TODAY TO BE COMPETITIVE IN THE GLOBAL ECONOMY TOMORROW. |
| 00:07:27 | AND IT IS PAYING OFF. |
| 00:07:28 | LAST YEAR, THE MILKEN INSTITUTE RANKED SAN ANTONIO AS THE NATION'S TOP LOCAL PERFORMING ECONOMY. |
| 00:07:37 | AND WE ARE ONLY GETTING STARTED. |
| 00:07:41 | OPPORTUNITY TODAY, PROSPERITY TOMORROW. |
| 00:07:47 | NOW, LIKE MANY OF YOU, I WATCHED LAST WEEK'S REPUBLICAN CONVENTION. |
| 00:07:58 | AND THEY TOLD A FEW STORIES OF INDIVIDUAL SUCCESS. |
| 00:08:01 | WE ALL CELEBRATE INDIVIDUAL SUCCESS. |
| 00:08:06 | BUT THE QUESTION IS -- HOW DO WE MULTIPLIED THAT SUCCESS? |
| 00:08:09 | THE ANSWER IS PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA. |
| 00:08:21 | MITT ROMNEY DOES NOT GET IT. |
| 00:08:24 | A FEW MONTHS AGO, HE VISITED A UNIVERSITY IN OHIO AND A STUDENT THERE A LITTLE ENTREPRENEURIAL ADVICE. |
| 00:08:36 | STARTED BUSINESS, HE SAID. BUT HOW? |
| 00:08:37 | BORROW MONEY IF YOU HAVE TO FROM THEIR PARENTS, HE TOLD THEM. |
| 00:08:42 | GEE, WHY DIDN'T I THINK OF THAT? |
| 00:08:51 | [APPLAUSE] SOEM PEOPLE ARE LUCKY ENOUGH TO BORROW MONEY FROM THEIR PARENTS. |
| 00:08:58 | BUT THAT SHOULD NOT DETERMINE WHETHER YOU CAN PURSUE YOUR DREAMS. |
| 00:09:02 | NOT IN AMERICA, NOT IN THE 21ST CENTURY. |
| 00:09:06 | I CANNOT THINK GOVERNOR ROMNEY MEANT ANY HARM. |
| 00:09:09 | I THINK HE IS A GOOD GUY. |
| 00:09:10 | HE JUST HAS NO IDEA HOW GOOD HE HAS HAD IT. |
| 00:09:16 | WE KNOW THAT IN OUR FREE MARKET ECONOMY, SOME WERE PROSPER MORE THAN OTHERS. |
| 00:09:25 | " WE CANNOT ACCEPT IS THE IDEA THAT SOME FOLKS WILL NOT EVEN GET A CHANCE. |
| 00:09:30 | AND THE THING IS, MITT ROMNEY AND THE REPUBLICAN PARTY ARE PERFECTLY COMFORTABLE WITH THAT AMERICA. |
| 00:09:37 | IN FACT, THAT IS EXACTLY WHAT THEY ARE PROMISING US. |
| 00:09:40 | THE ROMNEY RYAN BUDGET IS NOT CUT PUBLIC EDUCATION, MEDICARE, TRANSPORTATION AND JOB TRAINING, IT DOES NOT JUST PUMMEL THE MIDDLE CLASS. |
| 00:09:50 | IT DISMANTLES IT. |
| 00:09:52 | IT DISMANTLES WHAT GENERATIONS BEFORE HAVE BUILT TO ENSURE THAT EVERYBODY CAN ENTER AND STAY IN THE MIDDLE CLASS. |
| 00:09:59 | WHEN IT COMES TO GETTING THE MIDDLE-CLASS BACK TO WORK, MITT ROMNEY SAID "NO. |
| 00:10:05 | " WHEN IT COMES TO RESPECTING WOMEN'S RIGHT, MITT ROMNEY SAID "NO. |
| 00:10:10 | " WHEN IT COMES TO LETTING PEOPLE LOVE WITH A LOVE AND MARRY WHO THEY WANT TO MARY, MITT ROMNEY SAYS "NO. |
| 00:10:17 | " WHEN IT COMES TO EXPANDING ACCESS TO GOOD HEALTH CARE, MITT ROMNEY SAYS "NO. |
| 00:10:24 | " ACTUALLY, [APPLAUSE] |
| 00:10:38 | ACTUALLY, MITT ROMNEY SAID YES AND NOW HE SAYS NO. |
| 00:10:47 | GOVERNOR ROMNEY HAS UNDERGONE AN EXTREME MAKEOVER. |
| 00:10:52 | AND IT AIN'T PRETTY. |
| 00:10:56 | SO HERE IS WHAT WE ARE GOING TO SAY TO MITT ROMNEY IN NOVEMBER -- NO. |
| 00:11:03 | OF ALL THE STORIES WE HEARD LAST WEEK IN TAMPA, THE ONE I FIND MOST TROUBLING IS THIS -- IF WE OUGHT TO GO OUR OWN WAY, OUR NATION WILL BE STRONGER FOR IT. |
| 00:11:16 | IF WE SEVER THE THREADS THAT CONNECT US, THE ONLY PEOPLE WHO WILL GO FAR ARE THOSE WHO ARE ALREADY AHEAD. |
| 00:11:22 | WE ALL UNDERSTAND THAT FREEDOM IS NOT FREE. |
| 00:11:26 | BUT MITT ROMNEY AND PAUL RYAN DO NOT UNDERSTAND IS THAT NEITHER IS OPPORTUNITY. |
| 00:11:31 | WE HAVE TO INVEST IN IT. |
| 00:11:38 | REPUBLICANS TELL US THAT THIS IS THE MOST PROSPEROUS AMONG US DO BETTER, SOMEHOW THE REST OF US WILL TOO. |
| 00:11:48 | FOLKS, WE HAVE HEARD THAT BEFORE. |
| 00:11:53 | FIRST THEY CALLED THE TRICKLE- DOWN. |
| 00:11:56 | THEN THEY CALLED IT SUPPLY- SIDER. |
| 00:11:58 | NOW IT IS ROMNEY RYAN OR IS IT MY AND ROMNEY. |
| 00:12:03 | EITHER WAY, THERE THEORY HAS BEEN TESTED, IT FAILED, OUR ECONOMY FAILED, THE MIDDLE-CLASS PAID THE PRICE, MITT ROMNEY JUST AS I GET IT. |
| 00:12:14 | -- JUST DOES NOT GET IT. |
| 00:12:21 | [APPLAUSE] BUT BARACK OBAMA GETS IT. |
| 00:12:26 | [APPLAUSE] HE UNDERSTANDS THAT WHEN WE INVEST IN PEOPLE, WE ARE INVESTING IN OUR SHARED PROSPERITY. |
| 00:12:32 | WHEN WE NEGLECT THAT RESPONSIBILITY, RISK OUR PROMISE AS A NATION. |
| 00:12:37 | A FEW YEARS AGO, FAMILIES THAT HAVE NEVER ASKED FOR ANYTHING FOUND THEMSELVES AT RISK OF LOSING EVERYTHING. |
| 00:12:45 | AND THE DREAM MY GRANDMOTHER HELPED THAT WORK WOULD BE REWARDED, THAT THE MIDDLE CLASS WOULD BE THERE IF NOT FOR HER THAN FOR HER CHILDREN, THAT DREAM WAS BEING CRUSHED. |
| 00:12:56 | BUT THEN PRESIDENT OBAMA TOOK OFFICE AND HE TOOK ACTION. |
| 00:13:00 | WHEN DETROIT WAS IN TROUBLE, PRESIDENT OBAMA SAVED THE AUTO INDUSTRY AND SAVED A MILLION JOBS. |
| 00:13:12 | SEVEN PRESIDENTS BEFORE HIM, REPUBLICANS AND DEMOCRATS, TRIED TO EXPAND HEALTH CARE ALL- AMERICAN. |
| 00:13:19 | PRESIDENT OBAMA GOT IT DONE. |
| 00:13:24 | [APPLAUSE] HE MADE A HISTORIC INVESTMENT TO EXPAND PROGRESS SO THAT MORE YOUNG PEOPLE CAN AFFORD COLLEGE -- PELL GRANTS SO THAT MORE YOUNG PEOPLE CAN AFFORD COLLEGE. |
| 00:13:37 | THE PRESIDENT TOOK ACTION TO LIFT THE SHADOW OF DEPORTATION FROM A GENERATION OF YOUNG, LAW- ABIDING IMMIGRANTS. |
| 00:13:55 | [APPLAUSE] NOW IT IS TIME FOR CONGRESS TO ENSHRINE IN LAW THE RIGHT TO PURSUE THEIR DREAMS IN THE ONLY PLACE THEY HAVE EVER CALLED HOME -- AMERICA. |
| 00:14:07 | FOUR YEARS AGO, AMERICA STOOD ON THE BRINK OF A DEPRESSION. |
| 00:14:12 | DESPITE INCREDIBLE ODDS, A UNITED REPUBLICAN OPPOSITION, OUR PRESIDENT TOOK ACTION AND NOW WE HAVE SEEN A 4. |
| 00:14:20 | 5 MILLION NEW JOBS. |
| 00:14:22 | HE KNOWS BETTER THAN ANYONE THAT THERE IS MORE HARD WORK TO DO. |
| 00:14:25 | BUT WE ARE MAKING PROGRESS. |
| 00:14:27 | AND NOW, WE NEED TO MAKE A CHOICE. |
| 00:14:30 | IT IS A CHOICE BETWEEN A COUNTRY WHERE THE MIDDLE CLASS PAYS MORE SAID THAT MILLIONAIRES CAN PAYLESS FOR A COUNTRY WHERE EVERYBODY PAYS THEIR FAIR SHARE SO WE CAN REDUCE THE DEFICIT AND CREATE THE JOBS OF THE FUTURE? |
| 00:14:48 | [APPLAUSE] IT IS A CHOICE BETWEEN A NATION THAT SLASHES FUNDING FOR OUR SCHOOL AND GUTS PELL GRANTS OR A NATION THAT INVEST MORE IN EDUCATING? |
| 00:14:59 | IT IS A CHOICE BETWEEN A POLITICIAN WHO REWARDS COMPANIES THAT SHIP AMERICAN JOBS OVERSEAS OR A LEADER WHO BRING JOBS BACK HOME. |
| 00:15:08 | THIS IS THE CHOICE BEFORE US. |
| 00:15:15 | TO MY GENERATION AND FOR ALL THE GENERATIONS TO COME, OUR CHOICE IS CLEAR -- OUR CHOICE IS A MAN WHO IS ALWAYS CHOSEN US. |
| 00:15:23 | A MAN WHO ALREADY IS OUR PRESIDENT, BARACK OBAMA. |
| 00:15:37 | CROWD: FOUR MORE YEARS! THE AMERICAN DREAM IS NOT A SPRINT. |
| 00:16:01 | OR EVEN A MARATHON. |
| 00:16:02 | BUT A RELAY. |
| 00:16:04 | OUR FAMILIES DID NOT ALWAYS CROSSED THE FINISH LINES IN THE SPAN OF ONE GENERATION, BUT EACH GENERATION PASSES ON TO THE NEXT THE FRUITS OF THEIR LABOR. |
| 00:16:14 | MY GRANDMOTHER NEVER OWNED A HOUSE. |
| 00:16:16 | SHE CLEANED OTHER PEOPLE'S HOUSES AND SO SHE COULD AFFORD TO RENT HER OWN. |
| 00:16:20 | BUT SHE SAW HER DOCTOR BECOME THE FIRST IN OUR FAMILY TO GRADUATE FROM COLLEGE. |
| 00:16:25 | AND MY MOTHER FOUGHT HARD FOR CIVIL-RIGHTS SO THAT INSTEAD OF A MOP, I COULD HOLD THIS MICROPHONE. |
| 00:16:41 | [APPLAUSE] AND WHILE SHE MAY BE PROUD OF ME TONIGHT, I HAVE TO TELL YOU -- MOM, I AM EVEN MORE PROUD OF YOU. |
| 00:17:17 | [APPLAUSE] TODAY, MY BEAUTIFUL WIFE AND I ARE THE PROUD PARENTS OF ITS THREE-YEAR OLD LITTLE GIRL, CARINA. |
| 00:17:26 | NAMED AFTER MY GRANDMOTHER. |
| 00:17:29 | A COUPLE OF DAYS AGO, IT WAS OUR FIRST DAY WASPREK. |
| 00:17:37 | AS A DOCTOR OFF, WE WALKED OUT OF THE CLASSROOM -- AS WE DROPPED HER OFF, WE WALKED OUT OF THE CLASSROOM AND I WHISPERED TO HER AS WAS ONCE WHISPERED TO ME -- MAY GOD BLESS YOU. |
| 00:17:55 | SHE IS STILL YOUNG AND HER DREAMS ARE FAR OFF YET. |
| 00:17:59 | BUT I HOPE SHE WILL REACH THEM. |
| 00:18:03 | AS A DAD, I AM GOING TO DO MY PART AND I KNOW SHE WILL DO HERS. |
| 00:18:09 | BUT OUR RESPONSIBILITY AS A NATION IS TO COME TOGETHER AND DO OUR PART AS ONE COMMUNITY, ONE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, TO ENSURE OPPORTUNITY FOR ALL OF OUR CHILDREN. |
| 00:18:20 | THE DAYS WE LIVE IN ARE NOT EASY ONES BUT WE HAVE SEEN DAYS LIKE THIS BEFORE. |
| 00:18:26 | AN AMERICA PREVAILED. |
| 00:18:28 | WITH THE WISDOM OF OUR FOUNDERS AND VALUES OF OUR FAMILY, AMERICA PREVAILED. |
| 00:18:33 | BUT IN THE WE DID WITH EACH GENERATION GOING FORWARD, AMERICA PREVAILED. |
| 00:18:38 | WITH THE OPPORTUNITY BILL TODAY FOR A SHARED PROSPERITY TOMORROW, AMERICA WILL PREVAIL. |
| 00:18:44 | IT BEGINS WITH REELECTING BARACK OBAMA. |
| 00:18:47 | IT BEGINS WITH YOU. |
| 00:18:49 | IT BEGINS NOW. |
| 00:18:50 | MAY GOD BLESS YOU. |
| 00:18:52 | AND THEY GOT LAST THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. |
| 00:18:54 | -- MAY GOD BLESS YOU AND MAY GOD BLESS THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. |
| 00:19:35 | THANK YOU. >> THE |
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