| 00:00:02 | PLEASE WELCOME THE CHORUS FROM TAMPA BAY CITY LIFE CHURCH. |
| 00:00:13 | (music) I WAS BORN IN AMERICA (music) (music) AMERICA, WHERE PEOPLE DARE TO DREAM (music) (music) WILLING TO FIGHT FOR AMERICA (music) (music) AMERICA, LAND OF THE FREE (music) (music) ARISE FROM THE ASHES, AMERICA (music) (music) AMERICA, LAND THAT I LOVE (music) (music) PRAY THAT GOD BLESS AMERICA (music) (music) AND KEEP AMERICA SAEFE FROM ABOVE (music) (music) AMERICA, AMERICA, AMERICA, AMERICA (music) (music) PURPLE MOUNTAINS, SHINING SEAS, AMERICA (music) (music) AMERICA, THAT'S YOU AND ME (music) (music) RED, WHITE, AND BLUE, AMERICA (music) (music) AMERICA, (music) (music) THAT'S RIGHT, AMERICA, IT'S YOUR AMERICA (music) (music) AND IT'S MY AMERICA, OUR AMERICA (music) (music) AMERICA, I'M PROUD TO BE BORN IN AMERICA (music) (music) AMERICA, WE WILL ACHIEVE (music) (music) 'CAUSE ALL THINGS ARE POSSIBLE, AMERICA (music) (music) AMERICA, I DO BELIEVE (music) (music) AND IF YOU BELIEVE, SING ALONG, SING ALONG (music) (music) MY COUNTRY TIS OF THEE, SWEET LAND OF LIBERTY (music) (music) UNITED WE STAND, AMERICA (music) (music) AMERICA, LAND OF THE FREE (music) (music) AMERICA (music) [CHEERS AND APPLAUSE] |
| 00:04:10 | (music) (music) NEVER MET A GIRL COULD MAKE ME FEEL THE WAY THAT YOU DO, YOU ARE ALL RIGHT (music) (music) YOU'RE OUT OF SIGHT (music) (music) LOOK OUT BABY, 'CAUSE HERE I COME (music) (music) GET READY, GET READY (music) (music) GET READY, 'CAUSE HERE I COME (music) (music) ON MY WAY (music) (music) YOU WANNA PLAY HIDE AND SEEK WITH LOVE (music) (music) >> I AM A GUY WHO BELIEVES IN THE VISION OF THE FOUNDING FATHERS. |
| 00:05:11 | I BELIEVE THIS IS THE LAND OF OPPORTUNITY. |
| 00:05:13 | IF WE RESTORE THE PRINCIPLE OF OPPORTUNITY AND HOPE AND GIVE EVERYONE A FAIR CHANCE, YOU ARE GOING TO SEE THIS COUNTRY COME ROARING BACK. |
| 00:05:48 | >> YOU CAN NEVER PREDICT WHAT KIND OF TOUGH DECISIONS ARE GOING TO COME IN FRONT OF THE PRESIDENT'S DESK. |
| 00:05:54 | AND IF YOU REALLY WANT TO KNOW HOW PERSON WILL OPERATE, LOOK AT HOW THEY HAVE LIVED THEIR LIFE. |
| 00:06:02 | >> THEY WERE ASKING ME ABOUT WHAT IS GOING ON WITH, YOU KNOW, WITH WHAT HAPPENED WITH THE SCANDAL, AND WHAT MY OPINION IS, IF WE CAN PULL THIS THING OFF AND I SAID, IT IS GOING TO BE JUST FINE. |
| 00:06:20 | HOW DO NOW? I SAID -- HOW DO YOU KNOW? |
| 00:06:24 | I SAID BECAUSE I JUST MET MITT ROMNEY. |
| 00:06:28 | >> PEOPLE WERE AFRAID, THINKING SOMETHING TERRIBLE COULD HAPPEN. |
| 00:06:30 | THE WAY WE LOOK AT THESE EVENTS CHANGED DRASTICALLY, MORE SO THAN ANY OTHER OLYMPIC GAMES, THE WORLD IS WATCHING THIS ONE. |
| 00:06:39 | HOW WELL THE UNITED STATES RESPOND? |
| 00:06:41 | CAN THEY PUT ON THE GAMES? |
| 00:06:44 | >> IT WAS WORSE THAN I EXPECTED. |
| 00:06:46 | THE TURNAROUND WAS A TURNAROUND FOR PUBLIC RELATIONS. |
| 00:06:51 | IT TURNED OUT TO BE A FINANCIAL AND GOVERNMENTAL TURNAROUND. |
| 00:06:54 | PREXY WAS NOT A FIGUREHEAD. |
| 00:06:56 | HE WAS NOT ONLY RUNNING THE SHOW BUT HE WAS OUT THERE SPEAKING TO THE PEOPLE, SHOWING THEM THROUGH HIS WORDS, THROUGH HIS ACTIONS, WHAT THE OLYMPICS COULD MEAN TO THE UNITED STATES. |
| 00:07:06 | >> WHAT I WAS DIAGNOSED WITH MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS, HE DISSOLVED IN TEARS. |
| 00:07:13 | >> IT WAS THE TOUGHEST TIME IN MY LIFE STANDING THERE WITH ANN, AS WE HUG EACH OTHER, AND THE DIAGNOSIS CAME. |
| 00:07:22 | >> I WAS VERY, VERY ILL. |
| 00:07:23 | I DO NOT KNOW THAT PEOPLE KNEW HOW SICK I WAS. |
| 00:07:27 | I WAS FRIGHTENED. |
| 00:07:28 | I NEEDED HIM DESPERATELY. |
| 00:07:29 | >> I AM HAPPY IN LIFE AS LONG AS I HAVE MY SOLEIL WITH ME. |
| 00:07:33 | >> MITT DECIDED HE WAS GOING TO HONOR HEROES THROUGHOUT THE COUNTRY AND THE TORCH RELAY WOULD BE ABOUT HEROES AND HE CHOSE ME AS HIS HERO. |
| 00:07:44 | MY LIFE WAS IN JEOPARDY, AND I WAS LIKE, AS WILL DOUBLE AS A PERSON COULD BE, AND I TRUST MITT, I TRUST HIM WITH MY LIFE. |
| 00:07:56 | >> SHE IS GORGEOUS, ABSOLUTELY BEAUTIFUL. |
| 00:08:02 | I CANNOT EXPLAIN LOVE. |
| 00:08:05 | I DO NOT KNOW WHY IT HAPPENS. |
| 00:08:06 | I DO NOT KNOW WHY IT ENDURES THE WAY IT DOES. |
| 00:08:10 | AT THE BEGINNING, I SAT WITH HER, CHATTED WITH HER, PUT MY ARM AROUND HER, AND SOMETHING CHANGED. |
| 00:08:17 | >> MY 16TH BIRTHDAY PARTY IS WHEN WE BECAME SORT OF AN ITEM. |
| 00:08:23 | MITT HELPED PLAN IT. |
| 00:08:26 | IT WAS THE BEGINNING OF OUR ROMANCE. |
| 00:08:30 | 1968, HE FLEW INTO THE DETROIT AIRPORT BEFORE CHRISTMAS. |
| 00:08:35 | HIS MOTHER HAD HER ARMS OPEN AND HE RUNS RIGHT BY HER AND GRABS ME. |
| 00:08:39 | >> ON THE CAR RIDE HOME FROM THE AIRPORT I SAID, I FEEL LIKE I HAVE NEVER BEEN AWAY AND SHE SAID, I FEEL THE SAME WAY. |
| 00:08:46 | >> BY THE TIME WE GOT HOME, WE TELL EVERYBODY, WE'RE GETTING MARRIED LIKE NEXT WEEK. |
| 00:08:54 | WE COMPROMISED AND WAITED UNTIL MARCH 21. |
| 00:09:01 | >> SWEET BABY. |
| 00:09:05 | >> MY BROTHER AND I FOUGHT A LOT. |
| 00:09:10 | >> 3, NOT BAD. |
| 00:09:12 | FOUR, IT'S GOT TO BE A LITTLE MUCH. |
| 00:09:17 | >> VERY RAMBUNCTIOUS. |
| 00:09:20 | >> AND THAT IT WAS THE FIFTH ONE AND CRAIG WAS MY MOST ACTIVE CHILD. |
| 00:09:29 | HE WAS A HANDFUL. |
| 00:09:32 | >> DON'T SQUIRT ME. |
| 00:09:34 | >> SHE WAS ALWAYS BEGGING FOR US TO BE QUIET. |
| 00:09:39 | >> WE COULD GET IN TROUBLE BUT WE COULD NEVER SAY ANYTHING ABOUT -- BAD ABOUT MY MOM. |
| 00:09:44 | >> I TRAVELED A LOT AND I COULD HEAR THE BOYS IN THE BACKGROUND AND SHE MIGHT BE A LITTLE EXASPERATED. |
| 00:09:51 | I SAID DO NOT FORGET, WHAT YOU ARE DOING IS MORE IMPORTANT THAN WHAT I AM DOING. |
| 00:09:55 | >> OFTEN I HAD MORE THAN FIVE SONS, I HAD SIX SONS. |
| 00:10:02 | >> HE WAS REALLY PLAYFUL. |
| 00:10:04 | >> YOU KNOW, YOU KNOW. |
| 00:10:09 | >> MITT WOULD WALK IN THE DOOR AND LEAVE THE BRIEFCASE AT THE DOOR AND NEVER THINK ABOUT WORK AGAIN UNTIL THE NEXT MORNING. |
| 00:10:17 | >> I FELT LIKE WE WERE THE MOST IMPORTANT THING IN HIS LIFE. |
| 00:10:21 | >> I WENT TO MOM IF YOU WANTED MONEY. |
| 00:10:23 | HE WAS WAY TOO CHEAP. |
| 00:10:26 | >> HE REPLACED IT -- HE SOLVED THAT WITH TINFOIL AND DUCT TAPE. |
| 00:10:39 | >> I HAVE WORKED SINCE I WAS 12. |
| 00:10:42 | I KNOW WHAT PARTY IS, I HAVE BEEN UP THRU IT. |
| 00:10:45 | >> HE IDEALIZED HIS FATHER. |
| 00:10:47 | HE REALLY WAS HIS HERO. |
| 00:10:50 | >> IN THE SUMMER, MY DAD USED TO PACK UP OUR FAMILY AND TAKE AS TO THE GREAT NATIONAL PARKS. |
| 00:10:57 | -- US TO THE GREAT NATIONAL PARKS. |
| 00:11:01 | IT WAS DURING THOSE TRIPS THAT I FELL IN LOVE WITH AMERICA. |
| 00:11:05 | THAT -- DAD WAS BORN IN MEXICO. |
| 00:11:11 | HIS PARENTS AND GRANDPARENTS HAD MOVED TO MEXICO. |
| 00:11:13 | THEY WERE REFUGEES. |
| 00:11:16 | I REMEMBER ANN ASKING MY DAD, WHAT WAS THE MOST MEANINGFUL ACCOMPLISHMENT AND WITHOUT HESITATION, HE SAID HAVING RAISED YOU FOUR KIDS. |
| 00:11:30 | FAMILY FOR MY MOM AND DAD WAS EVERYTHING. |
| 00:11:32 | MY DAD WORKED FOR HIS DAD. |
| 00:11:33 | HE WAS A DRY WILL GUIDE. |
| 00:11:35 | BACK THEN THEY CALLED IT LATH AND PLASTER. |
| 00:11:40 | I GREW UP WATCHING MY DAD LEAD. |
| 00:11:45 | >> I AM CONCERNED ABOUT AMERICA. |
| 00:11:47 | I AM CONCERNED ABOUT WHAT IS HAPPENING TO AMERICA. |
| 00:11:50 | >> IF HE FELT SOME WAY ABOUT A PARTICULAR ISSUE, THERE WAS NO QUESTION ABOUT HOW HE FELT. |
| 00:11:55 | FRIENDS CALLED HIM THE BRICK BECAUSE HE WAS IMMOVABLE. |
| 00:11:59 | HE LET ME TAGALONG |
Musical Interlude
Clipped from:Republican National Convention, Day FourAug 30, 2012
Bebe Winans and the Tampa Bay City Life Church Chorus, followed by house band.