| 00:00:00 | GENERATION OF AMERICANS, SO WITH BARACK OBAMA AND FOR YOU AND FOR ME, OUR COUNTRY WILL BE COMMITTED TO HIS CAUSE. |
| 00:00:12 | THE WORK BEGINS ANEW. |
| 00:00:15 | THE HOPE RISES AGAIN. |
| 00:00:17 | AND THE DREAM LIVES ON! [APPLAUSE] |
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| 00:02:32 | FOR DEMOCRATS 202-624-1111 AND FOR REPUBLICANS 202-624-1115. |
| 00:02:48 | LET'S GO TO CHESAPEAKE, GO AHEAD. |
| 00:02:52 | q6$TQi r+'HHI, I'M ACTUALLY CALLING ON THE REPUBLICAN SIDE. |
| 00:02:57 | I SAW EDWARD KENNEDY TO BE PROBABLY THE MOST LIBERAL SENATOR, ONE OF THE MOST LIBERAL NEXT TO OBAMA. |
| 00:03:10 | AND ALTHOUGH I WISH HIM WELL AND MY PRAYERS ARE WITH HIM AND HIS FAMILY AND I WISH HIM WELL, I DON'T AGREE WITH MOST OF HIS POLICIES THAT HE'S FOUGHT FOR. |
| 00:03:23 | I HAPPEN TO BE AN AFRICAN-AMERICAN MIDDLE CLASS AND MY PARENTS HAVE ALWAYS RAISED ME TO THIS MOST OF THE REPUBLICAN POLICIES IN WHICH YOU GET AN EDUCATION. |
| 00:03:31 | YOU WORK REALLY HARD. |
| 00:03:33 | YOU MAKE A SUCCESS OF YOURSELF, AND YOU DON'T MAKE EXCUSES. |
| 00:03:38 | AND WHAT I FIND WITH THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY TOO OFTEN IS THAT THEY LIKE TO HAND<[l OUT EXCUSES FOR PEOPLE TO USE FOR THEIR OWN FAILURE. |
| 00:03:45 | >> CHESAPEAKE, LET'S LEAVE IT AT THAT. |
| 00:03:50 | WE HAVE A LOT OF PEOPLE IN LINE WHO WANT TO TALK. |
| 00:03:52 | KANSAS CITY, MISSOURI. |
| 00:03:55 | >> Caller: MY FAMILY HAS ALWAYS WORKED ME TO WORK HARD AND TO GET AN EDUCATION BUT ALSO TO MAKE SURE THAT YOU LOOK OUT FOR YOUR FELLOW MAN WHO IS LESS FORTUNATE THAN YOU ARE. |
| 00:04:08 | THAT IS OUR BELIEF AND MY BELIEF EVER SINCE I WAS A CHILD. |
| 00:04:11 | AND OTHER COUNTRIES ARE DOING THE SAME. |
| 00:04:13 | OTHER COUNTRIES LOOK OUT FOR THEIR YOUNG, LOOK OUT FOR THE ELDERLY. |
| 00:04:17 | WE THROW OUT ELDERLY PEOPLE TO THE CURB WHEN IT COMES TO THE HEALTHCARE. |
| 00:04:23 | >> CALLER -- >> Caller: EVERYONE NEEDS TO HAVE AFFORDABLE HEALTHCARE IN THIS UNITED STATES. |
| 00:04:29 | >> THANK YOU. |
| 00:04:30 | SKAGWAY? >> Caller: HI THERE. |
| 00:04:32 | I'M CALLING FROM SKAGWAY, ALASKA. |
| 00:04:33 | I JUST WANT TO SAY TO THE DEMOCRATS WHO GREW UP IN THE SMALL STATE OF RHODE ISLAND, RIGHT NEXT DOOR TO TED KENNEDY, THERE IS NO MAN IN POLITICS THAT I CAN THINK OF WHO JUST EMBODIES WHAT A POLITICIAN SHOULD BE. |
| 00:04:50 | HE'S SEEN IT ALL. |
| 00:04:52 | HE'S HAD HIS BROTHERS AND HE'S STILL HERE, 40 YEARS LATER. |
| 00:05:01 | HE'S THE PREMIER STATESMAN. |
| 00:05:02 | WHETHER YOU LOVE OR HATE HIM, WHATEVER, YOU CAN'T DENY HE HAS QUITE THE LEGACY. |
| 00:05:06 | >> OMAHA, NEBRASKA. |
| 00:05:08 | >> Caller: YES, THIS IS GOING TO BE MY FIRST TIME VOTING THIS YEAR AND I'M 30 YEARS OLD AND THE ONLY WHY I'M VOTING IS BECAUSE OF TED KENNEDY -- HE INSPIRED TO VOTE FOR BARACK OBAMA. |
| 00:05:20 | THANK YOU. |
| 00:05:24 | >> FOLEY, ALABAMA. |
| 00:05:25 | >> Caller: I'M 42 YEARS OLD. |
| 00:05:29 | I'M A DISABLED VETERAN. |
| 00:05:30 | AND I HAVE NEVER VOTED IN MY LIFE. |
| 00:05:32 | I'M NOT REALLY IN ANY KIND OF POLITICS OR ANYTHING. |
| 00:05:36 | I DON'T KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT IT. |
| 00:05:37 | BUT I'M EDUCATING MYSELF. |
| 00:05:39 | ANDLp I'M GOING TO MAKE AN EDUCATED VOTE. |
| 00:05:46 | THANK YOU. >> MILFORD, OHIO. |
| 00:05:48 | >> Caller: I'M A REPUBLICAN. |
| 00:05:51 | >> UH-HUH. |
| 00:05:53 | >> Caller: BUT I DID VOTE FOR SENATOR KENNEDY WHEN HE WAS PRESIDENT. |
| 00:05:59 | AND I THINK HE'S WONDERFUL. |
| 00:06:01 | AND I ADMIRE HIS FIGHTING SPIRIT, AND I PRAY FOR HIM. |
| 00:06:07 | THANK YOU. |
| 00:06:08 | >> THANK YOU. |
| 00:06:12 | LET'S GO TO -- I THINK IT'S KANSAS CITY; IS THAT RIGHT? |
| 00:06:15 | CALLER, ARE YOU THERE, KANSAS CITY, MISSOURI? |
| 00:06:17 | >> Caller: YES. >> GO AHEAD, PLEASE. |
| 00:06:20 | >> Caller: I'M CALLING ON BEHALF OF -- >> HELLO. |
| 00:06:24 | WELL, WE'VE LOST OUR CALLER. |
| 00:06:25 | WE'RE GOING TO TAKE SOME MORE PHONE CALLS AND YOU'LL SEE THE PHONE NUMBERS AT THE BOTTOM OF YOUR SCREEN. |
| 00:06:30 | WHAT WE'RE DOING TONIGHT ON C-SPAN2 IS PROVIDING YOU AN ALTERNATIVE TO THE COVERAGE THAT WE HAVE ON OUR REGULAR NETWORK, ON C-SPAN. |
| 00:06:38 | WE'RE BRINGING YOU GAVEL-TO-GAVEL COVERAGE FROM THE FLOOR. |
| 00:06:42 | WE'RE ALSO TAKING YOUR PHONE CALLS AS WELL AS SHOWING YOU CLIPS FROM EARLIER IN THE DAY AND CHECKING IN ON THE BLOGS. |
| 00:06:49 | A REMINDER ALSO THAT IF YOU WANT TO GO TO C-SPAN. |
| 00:06:52 | ORG, WE HAVE AN AWFUL LOT THERE FOR YOU TO -- FOR YOU TO TAKE A LOOK AT. |
| 00:06:57 | IT IS AT THE C-SPAN CONVENTION HUB. |
| 00:07:00 | JUST GO TO C-SPAN. |
| 00:07:01 | ORG AND CLICK ON THE CONVENTION HUB AND YOU'RE GOING TO FIND SOME EMBEDDABLE VIDEO OF ALL OF OUR CONVENTION-RELATED VIDEO THAT WE HAVE. |
| 00:07:11 | NOT ONLY JUST OF THE FLOOR BUT OF ALL THE THINGS THAT WE'RE DOING AROUND IT. |
| 00:07:15 | WE ALSO HAVE COVERAGE OF THE POLITICAL BLOGGERS, BOTH NATIONAL AND STATE. |
| 00:07:21 | AND WE ALSO HAVE JUST A VARIETY OF DIFFERENT TECHNOLOGIES THAT YOU CAN USE INCLUDING TWITTERy AND QUICK VIDEO AND ALSO YOUTUBE. |
| 00:07:32 | ALBANY, NEW YORK, WE'RE TALKING ABOUT THE -- THE LEGACY OF SENATOR KENNEDY. |
| 00:07:39 | ALBANY, NEW YORK, ARE YOU THERE. |
| 00:07:42 | >> Caller: YES, MA'AM. |
| 00:07:44 | >> GO AHEAD, PLEASE. |
| 00:07:46 | >> Caller: I'M CALLING FROM ALBANY, NEW YORK AND I'M PROUD TO BE A DEMOCRATIC TODAY. |
| 00:07:52 | WHEN I HEARD OF MR. |
| 00:07:53 | OBAMA BEING PARTIALLY BLACK AND WHITE, YOU KNOW, I WAS AFRAID. |
| 00:07:57 | BUT WHEN MR. |
| 00:07:58 | KENNEDY ENDORSED HIM AND SAID THAT HE REMINDED HIM OF HIS BROTHER, MR. |
| 00:08:03 | KENNEDY, THAT PASSED ON, LET ME TELL YOUE? |
| 00:08:06 | t SOMETHING. VOTE FOR MR. |
| 00:08:07 | OBAMA AND MR. |
| 00:08:09 | OBAMA AND MR. |
| 00:08:10 | KENNEDY AND THE WHOLE STAFF ARE GREAT. |
| 00:08:11 | GOD BLESS AMERICA! >> PENSACOLA, FLORIDA. |
| 00:08:15 | PLEASE GO AHEAD. |
| 00:08:16 | >> Caller: MY NAME IS JULIE AND I'M A LREPUBLICAN. |
| 00:08:21 | YOU KNOW, I'M HAPPY FOR WHAT HE'S ACCOMPLISHED WITH THE BALANCE OF HIS LIFE. |
| 00:08:27 | I WONDER HOW PEOPLE IN MASSACHUSETTS CAN FORGET ABOUT CHAPPAQIK. |
| 00:08:38 | >> I'M SORRY, CALLER, WE DIDN'T HEAR THE START OF YOUR QUESTION. |
| 00:08:42 | CAN YOU START OVER. |
| 00:08:44 | >> Caller: MY PRAYERS ARE WITH SENATOR KENNEDY AND I ADMIRE FOR THAT YEARS HE'S GIVEN TO THE SENATOR TO HIS COUNTRY. |
| 00:08:56 | AND I'M FOR BARACK OBAMA AND I PRAY THAT BARACK WILL WIN. |
| 00:09:00 | >> MICHELLE IS COMING UP ON THE FLOOR OF THE CONVENTION IN ABOUT 45 MINUTES. |
| 00:09:03 | THE NEXT CALL IS FROM BRADENTON, FLORIDA. |
| 00:09:07 | >> Caller: HELLO, I'M RICHARD FROM BRADENTON. |
| 00:09:10 | I'M A REPUBLICAN BUT I THINK WE NEED CHANGE AND I'M VOTING FOR OBAMA. |
| 00:09:15 | >> YOU ARE VOTING FOR OBAMA. |
| 00:09:16 | >> Caller: YES, MA'AM. |
| 00:09:17 | >> TELL ME ABOUT THE CHANGE THAT YOU'RE LOOKING FOR. |
| 00:09:21 | >> Caller: THE HEALTHCARE. |
| 00:09:23 | >> SPECIFICALLY, HEALTHCARE? |
| 00:09:24 | >> Caller: YES, AND JOBS. |
| 00:09:26 | >> OKAY. |
| 00:09:27 | THANKS. |
| 00:09:28 | AND ANY THOUGHTS ABOUT WHAT YOU SAW TONIGHT IN TERMS OF THE TRIBUTE TO SENATOR KENNEDY? |
| 00:09:32 | >> Caller: VERY IMPRESSIVE. |
| 00:09:33 | >> LET'S GO TO DOVER, DELAWARE. |
| 00:09:36 | HELLO. >> Caller: YES, HELLO MY NAME IS ANN. |
| 00:09:42 | AND I JUST WANTED TO MAKE ONE COMMENT. |
| 00:09:44 | THAT I AND SEVERAL OF MY FRIENDS FEEL IF I DON'T SEE A LITTLE BIT MORE OF DETERMINATION FROM HILLARY AND HER SUPPORTERS TO SUPPORT OBAMA AND STOP PLAYING TO THIS McCAIN AS -- THAT WHEN SHE WANTS TO RUN IN FOUR TO EIGHT YEARS, I AM NOT GOING TO FORGET THIS BECAUSE IF HILLARY'S PEOPLE COST THE ELECTION, THERE ARE A LOT OF PEOPLE WHO WOULD DO THE SAME THING TO HER THAT -- I DON'T FEEL I'M SEEING THE ENTHUSIASM FROM HER. |
| 00:10:23 | SHE SHOULD HAVE BEEN CAMPAIGNING HARD IN THE LAST COUPLE WEEKS. |
| 00:10:28 | AND I HAVEN'T SEEN IT FROM HER OR FROM BILL. |
| 00:10:32 | AND SECOND OF ALL, I FEEL ONE OF THE REASONS I'M VERY GLAD THAT OBAMA DID NOT CHOOSE HILLARY IS BECAUSE GORE WAS A GOOD MAN, AND WHEN GORE WAS RUNNING, HE HAD TO HAVE THIS WHOLE MONICA LEWINSKI THING THROWN AT HIM AND GORE HAS BEEN AN HONORABLE HUSBAND AND A GOOD MAN. |
| 00:10:54 | HE DIDN'T NEED THAT THROWN AT HIM DURING HIS ELECTION AND I DON'T WANT TO HEAR ABOUT BILL CLINTON'S SEXUAL ESCAPADES IN THIS ELECTION THIS YEAR. |
| 00:11:09 | >> THANK YOU. >> Caller: AND THAT'S WHY I'M GLAD -- I DIDN'T WANT TO HEAR IT ANYMORE -- CLINTON ANYMORE. |
| 00:11:15 | I'M SICK OF HEARING THAT. |
| 00:11:16 | >> DOVER, DELAWARE, THANK YOU FOR THE CALL. |
| 00:11:18 | WE'LL BE TALKING A LITTLE BIT ABOUT A VARIETY OF ISSUES BUT EARLIER TODAY, VALERIE JARRETT WHO'S AN ADVISER FOR SENATOR OBAMA SPOKE TO US TO THE FLOOR. |
| 00:11:32 | >> I'LL INTRODUCE TO VALERIE JARRETT WHO IS PROBABLY BARACK OBAMA'S LONGEST FRIENDS AND MICHELLE OBAMA? |
| 00:11:38 | WHEN DID YOU MEET THEM? |
| 00:11:39 | >> IN 1991. |
| 00:11:41 | I WAS MAYOR DALY'S DEPUTY CHIEF OF STAFF AND I RECRUITED MICHELLE FOR CITY GOVERNMENT. |
| 00:11:50 | SHE WASN'T FEELING VERY FULFILLED BY THE PRIVATE PRACTICE OF LAW AND WAS INTERESTED IN COMMUNITY SERVICE SO SHE JOINED THE ADMINISTRATION AND THEY WERE ENGAGED AND I MET THEM THEN. |
| 00:12:05 | >> YOU FLEW IN TO DENVER WITH HER. |
| 00:12:08 | >> WE HAD A VERY QUIET LUNCH. |
| 00:12:11 | SHE'S REALLY LOOKING FORWARD TO THE OPPORTUNITY TO TALK ABOUT THE OBAMA FAMILY. |
| 00:12:13 | SHE WILL SHARE THEIR PERSONAL STORIES, HOW THEY WERE RAISED, THEIR FAMILIES, THEIR KIND OF CORE VALUES, WHAT MAKES THEM MOTIVATED TO DO WHAT THEY HAVE BEEN DOING. |
| 00:12:24 | WHAT THEY'VE LEARNED ON THE JOURNEY FROM THE MANY PEOPLE WHO HAVE INSPIRED THEM ALONG THE WAY AND SHE WILL SHARE THE PODIUM WITH MANY OF THEM WHO HAVE TOUCHED THEIR LIVES AND SHE WILL TALK ABOUT WHAT BARACK LIKE AS A HUSBAND AND FATHER. |
| 00:12:34 | HOW HAS HE INSPIRED THEIR FAMILY? |
| 00:12:36 | AND WHAT'S HIS VISION FOR AMERICA AND HOW HE'LL LEAD OUR COUNTRY? |
| 00:12:39 | >> THERE'S BEEN A LOT OF TALK ABOUT THIS BEING AN OPPORTUNITY TO REINTRODUCE BARACK OBAMA TO THE AMERICAN PEOPLE. |
| 00:12:44 | WHAT DO THEY NEED TO KNOW ABOUT HIM? |
| 00:12:46 | >> WELL, I THINK WHAT THEY NEED TO KNOW IS THAT HE'S AN EXTRAORDINARY MAN. |
| 00:12:49 | HE'S A MAN WHO GREW UP WITH HUMBLE BEGINNINGS. |
| 00:12:52 | THE SON OF A SINGLE MOM WHO HAD HIM WHEN HE WAS 18. |
| 00:12:55 | WHO'S FATHER WHO ABANDONED HIM WHEN HE WAS VERY YOUNG. |
| 00:12:57 | HE WAS ON FOOD STAMPS FOR A PERIOD OF TIME. |
| 00:12:59 | HE OVERCAME HIS ADVERSITY. |
| 00:13:02 | HE WORKED HARD. |
| 00:13:03 | HE REALLY ENGAGED AND CARES ABOUT HIS COMMUNITY. |
| 00:13:06 | HE HAD A CHOICE OF GOING TO WALL STREET WHEN HE FINISHED COLLEGE AND INSTEAD, WHAT DID HE DO? |
| 00:13:10 | HE WENT TO THENm SOUTH SIDE OF CHICAGO AND HE WENT FOR A COMMUNITY ORGANIZATION GALVANIZING PEOPLE TO HELP BRING CITY SERVICES TO THE PEOPLE WHO LOST THEIR JOBS WHEN THE STEEL MILLS CLOSED. |
| 00:13:20 | HE DID VOTER REGISTRATION. |
| 00:13:22 | HE COMMITTED HIS LIFE TO THE PUBLIC SECTOR AND I THINK WE'LL HEAR THAT STORY TONIGHT. |
| 00:13:26 | >> HOW ARE THEY PREPARING FOR THIS WEEK, PERSONALLY? |
| 00:13:30 | >> WELL, THEY ARE VERY STRONG. |
| 00:13:32 | THEY ARE EACH OTHER'S BEST FRIENDS. |
| 00:13:34 | THEY ARE KINDRED SPIRITS. |
| 00:13:35 | THEY HAVE WORKED VERY HARD FOR THIS MOMENT. |
| 00:13:37 | IT WAS A VERY LONG AND TOUGH PRIMARY SEASON. |
| 00:13:39 | ONE THAT IS NOW OVER. |
| 00:13:40 | SENATOR CLINTON HAS BEEN MAGNIFICENT HOW SHE HAS EMBRACED THE OBAMA CAMPAIGN AND WE'VE COME TOGETHER AS A PARTY AND SO OUR THEME IS AMERICA COMING TOGETHER FOR CHANGE AND TONIGHT IS ABOUT ONE NATION, AND I THINK WHAT MICHELLE WILL DO THIS EVENING IS ASCRIBE ONE NATION IN THEIR VISION FOR THIS COUNTRY THEY ARE THEn AMERICAN DREAM. |
| 00:14:00 | THEY WANT EVERYBODY'S CHILDREN TO GROW UP AND GROW UP AND SUCCEED. |
| 00:14:04 | >> IS THERE A STORY OR A MOMENT IN THE 17 YEARS THAT YOU'VE KNOWN THE OBAMAS THAT YOU SHARE WITH OTHERS? |
| 00:14:10 | >> WELL, I WILL SAY EVERY MOMENT THAT THEY'VE BEEN A PART OF MY LIFE HAS BEEN EXTRAORDINARY. |
| 00:14:16 | I FEEL SO FORTUNATE TO GET TO KNOW THEM AND SEE THEM GROW AS A COUPLE AND WATCH THEM RAISE THEIR CHILDREN AND TO HAVE SO MANY PRIVATE MOMENTS WHEN WE'RE JUST SITTING AROUND WITH OUR CHILDREN ENJOYING LIFE AND WHAT'S IMPORTANT. |
| 00:14:30 | AND TO SEE HOW HE HAS MATURED AND LEARNED AND BEEN INSPIRED SO MUCH BY BEING A PART OF THIS COUNTRY AND THE AMERICAN PEOPLE. |
| 00:14:36 | SO I'M JUST VERY PROUD TO BE THEIR FRIEND TONIGHT. |
| 00:14:38 | WE'RE GOING TO ENJOY THIS WEEK. |
| 00:14:40 | WE KNOW AS WE COME OUT OF THIS WEEK, WE'RE CONVINCED THAT OUR PARTY AND OUR COUNTRY WILL BE UNIFIED. |
| 00:14:45 | AND SO THAT GIVES ME ENORMOUS PERSONAL PRIDE. |
| 00:14:47 | >> AND FINALLY, AS YOU LOOK AT THE PODIUM BEHIND YOU WHEN MICHELLE OBAMA IS DELIVERING YOUR SPEECH TONIGHT, WHERE WILL YOU BE? |
| 00:14:54 | >> I WILL BE IN HER FAMILY BOX AND I'M SURE I'LL BE CRYING MY EYES OUT. |
| 00:15:01 | HER MOTHER NARRATES THE VIDEO. |
| 00:15:03 | IT'S GOING TO GIVE A VERY UNIQUE AND HEARTWARMING PERSPECTIVE ON THE FAMILY. |
| 00:15:09 | THERE SHOULDN'T BE A DRY EYE IN THE ROOM. |
| 00:15:12 | >> I SAW THE VIDEO CALLED "SOUTH SIDE GIRL. |
| 00:15:18 | " >> SHE GREW UP ON THE SOUTH SIDE WITH PARENTS WHO LOVED HER AND INSTILL THE AMERICAN VALUES AND MADE HER WHAT SHE IS TODAY. |
| 00:15:24 | SHE'S A TERRIFIC WOMAN. |
| 00:15:25 | I'M VERY PROUD OF HER TONIGHT. |
| 00:15:27 | >> VALERIE JARRETT, THANK YOU, A LONG TIME FRIEND OF BARACK AND MICHELLE OBAMA AND A SENIOR ADVISOR AS WELL. |
| 00:15:35 | >> WE'RE ABOUT 37 MINUTES AWAY FROM MICHELLE OBAMA'S SPEECH ON THE FLOOR OF THE CONVENTION. |
| 00:15:40 | WHAT WE'RE GOING TO DO HERE ON C-SPAN2 IS TO SHOW YOU A LITTLE BIT OF A PROGRAM THAT SAID EARLIER TODAY IN WHICH THE DISCUSSION REVOLVED AROUND RACE AND THE PRESIDENTIAL RACE. |
| 00:15:54 | THIS WAS A DISCUSSION FEATURING CONGRESSMAN JESSE JACKSON AND TV HOST TAVIS SMILEY. |
| 00:16:01 | AND AT THE EVENT DOUG WILDER AND THEY ARE TALKING ABOUT THE ROLE OF RACE IN THE ELECTION. |
| 00:16:05 | ONE OF THE STORIES TO COME OUT OF THIS CAME OUT OF POLITICO. |
| 00:16:13 | COM. AND IT SAYS HERE THAT CONGRESSMAN JESSE JACKSON TOLD CONVENTIONGOERS MONDAY THAT BARACK OBAMA IS LIKE BASEBALL PIONEER JACKIE ROBINSON ENDURING JEERS WITHOUT BEING ABLE TO HIT BACK. |
| 00:16:34 | HE IS IN A SITUATION WHERE HE CAN'T HIT BACK. |
| 00:16:38 | HE HAD TO BE ABLE TO RUN THE BASES EVEN THOUGH THE CROWD WAS M] |
| 00:16:44 | [ JEERING THE FIRST AFRICAN-AMERICAN ON THE FIELD. |
| 00:16:47 | THE STORY WENT ON THAT OBAMA HAS TO KEEP SMILING BECAUSE NO ONE WANTS AN ANGRY AFRICAN-AMERICAN MAN IN THE WHITE HOUSE. |
| 00:16:55 | THAT COMING FROM THIS PROGRAM THAT WE'RE GOING TO BE SHOWING YOU COMING UP NEXT. |
| 00:16:58 | IT'S ABOUT 22 MINUTES LONG. |
| 00:17:00 | ..BERT McNAMARA, THE LINGND E DEAD, ANDDD HIM ALSOWE HAVE HEARD A LOT ABOUT THIS HIM. |
| 00:17:13 | UL IS ANNORMOUSLY POPULAR WRITER HE'S G A NEW BOOK WH A THAT WOULD ARSE NUMBER JUMPS TO72%. |
| 00:17:25 | WHAT DO YOU PROGMSGH THE LAST YHOW ACC FR BRETT, BEING? |
| 00:17:33 | E, THINK THEY WILL GO NEXT TO ROCKVILL FOR NOT VOTING FOR A PERSON. |
| 00:17:43 | QUESTION, -- PROG TOO BISSIPATING. |
| 00:17:50 | I FIND OF THE NUMBER DISAPPEARING. |
| 00:17:53 | I THINK ONE OF THE PROBLEMS IN THIS PARTICULAR ELECTION -- FROM THE BEGINNING THE FACT THAT HILLARY SUPPORTERS HAVE CHANCES OF WINNING. |
| 00:18:09 | IT'S OUT THERE. |
| 00:18:11 | FRONT PAGE, USA TODAY. |
| 00:18:13 | SO THE ULTIMATE QUESTION IS ARE THE CLINTON SUPPORTERS READY FOR BARACK OBAMA TO BE PRESIDENT? |
| 00:18:19 | AND IF NOT, WHY NOT? |
| 00:18:22 | THEN THERE ARE SEVERAL SOB QUESTIONS TO BE ASKED IN THAT CONTENT. |
| 00:18:27 | IS THEIR SOMETHING HE HAS DONE? |
| 00:18:32 | IS THEIR SOMETHING HE'S NOT CAPABLE OF DOING? |
| 00:18:34 | IS THERE SOME REASON YOU CAN'T SUPPORT HIM? |
| 00:18:37 | I'M NOT AT ALL SUGGESTING RACE BUT I'M NOT ELIMINATING RACE. |
| 00:18:42 | THE PROBLEM THE DEMOCRATS WOULD HAVE IN THIS REGARD IS IF WE BELIEVE WE'VE SUFFERED EIGHT YEARS, AND WE HAVE UNDER THE LEADERSHIP WE HAD, IF THIS PARTY HAS CAUSED A FRACTURE OVER NONISSUES OR NON-PLATFORM THINGS BUT LESS SUBSTANTIVE THINGS THE AIR IS POISONED. |
| 00:19:04 | >> WE'RE GOING TO OPEN TO EVERYBODY BUT HE RAISED A POINT I WANT TO FOLLOW. |
| 00:19:07 | DO YOU THINK THE OBAMA CAMPAIGN SHOULD BE DOING MORE, I BELIEVE MY SOLDIERS IN THE CLINTON CAMPAIGN BELIEVE THE OBAMA KEY TO LEAVE THE CAMPAIGN SHOULD BE DOING MORE TO SHOW RESPECT TO CLINTON AND ACCOMMODATE HIS WISHES, IS THAT YOUR VIEW? |
| 00:19:23 | >> NO, MY QUESTION IS WHAT DOES HE HAVE TO DO? |
| 00:19:26 | WHAT DO YOU WANT HIM TO DO? |
| 00:19:27 | I HAVE NOT HEARD THAT QUESTION PUT FORWARD. |
| 00:19:30 | YOU WANT TO SPEAK, FINE. |
| 00:19:33 | BILL, YOU WANT TO SPEAK, FINE. |
| 00:19:36 | HE WANTED THE VICE PRESIDENT? |
| 00:19:41 | NO. [LAUGHTER] AFTER THAT AND BEYOND THAT, WHAT CAN I DO? |
| 00:19:44 | WHAT DO YOU WANT ME TO DO? |
| 00:19:48 | >> LET ME COMPLICATES THIS MORE. |
| 00:19:49 | THIS IS WHY DO. |
| 00:19:51 | BUT THE COMPLICATE THIS EVEN MORE. |
| 00:19:53 | IF THE QUESTION, JOHN, IF THE QUESTION IS AS WE HAVE BEEN DISCUSSING THE LAST WEEK OR TWO IN THE FRONT PAGE "NEW YORK TIMES" AGAIN TODAY EVERYBODY WANTS TO GET ON THIS CONVERSATION WHETHER OR NOT OBAMA IS THE END OF BLACK POLITICS THAT IS THE QUESTION BUT MAY ANSWER THAT ON THE OUTSET, NO. |
| 00:20:10 | OBAMA IS NOT THE END OF BLACK POLITICS FOR A COUPLE OF REASONS. |
| 00:20:15 | ONE, NO PARTICULAR ORDER, BECAUSE THERE ARE TOO MANY ISSUES AND DISPARITIES IN BLACK AMERICA THAT HAVE TO BE ADDRESSED NO MATTER WHAT HAPPENS ON NOVEMBER 4TH. |
| 00:20:25 | I SAID THE OTHER DAY IF YOU HAVE NO HEALTH INSURANCE ON JANUARY 20 IF, IF YOU HAVE NO HEALTH INSURANCE AND YOU HAVE NO JOB AND YOU ARE ABOUT TO BE EVICTED OUT OF YOUR HOME JANUARY 24, THE VERY NEXT DAY AFTER OBAMA IS INAUGURATED YOU'RE GOING TO BE CLOSER TO BEING EVICTED, YOU WILL STILL HAVE NO HEALTH INSURANCE AND STILL BE UNEMPLOYED. |
| 00:20:46 | ALL OF THESE DISPARITIES THAT IMPACT BLACK AMERICA IN REAL WAGES ARE GOING TO EXIST THE DAY AFTER AND I WONDER AND WORRY TO BE HONEST WHETHER OR NOT THE EXPECTATION SOME BLACK FOLKS ARE PUTTING ON MR. |
| 00:20:57 | OBAMA IS SO HIGH THAT EVEN JESUS CHRIST HIMSELF MIGHT NOT BE ABLE TO RESPOND TO THE PRESSURE, THE EXPECTATION PUT ON BARACK OBAMA. |
| 00:21:06 | SO NUMBER ONE, NO, THE OBAMA IS NOT THE END OF BLACK POLITICS. |
| 00:21:10 | THE WAS A POLL TAKEN BY GALLUP AND WE TALKED ABOUT THIS BUT THE GALLUP POLL UNDERSCORED THE FACT EVEN THE BLACK FOLKS DO NOT REGARD MR. |
| 00:21:18 | OBAMA AS THEIR SPOKESPERSON. |
| 00:21:21 | OVERWHELMINGLY. |
| 00:21:22 | BLACK PEOPLE DO NOT REGARD OBAMA AS THEIR SPOKESPERSON EVEN THOUGH OVERWHELMINGLY BLACK PEOPLE ARE PREPARED OBVIOUSLY TO SUPPORT BARACK OBAMA SO EVEN THE INJURED BLACK AMERICA OF THERE'S THIS CONVERSATION ABOUT WHAT HAPPENS TO THE SO-CALLED AFRICAN AMERICAN AGENDA IF HE RISES. |
| 00:21:38 | I DON'T THINK WE OUGHT TO LOSE SIGHT OF THAT. |
| 00:21:41 | THE ANSWER IS IT IS NOT THE END OF BLACK POLITICS AS WE KNOW IT OR THE NEED FOR AFRICAN-AMERICAN POLITICS GIVEN THE DISPARITIES THAT EXIST IN OUR COUNTRIES. |
| 00:21:50 | I'VE SAID MANY TIMES ON RADIO AND TELEVISION IF THE SUFFERING OF BLACK PEOPLE HAS TO BE RENDERED INVISIBLE FOR THE BARACK OBAMA TO GET THE WHITE HOUSE, THAT IS TOO HIGH OF COST TO PAY OF THE SUFFERING OF BLACK PEOPLE HAS TO BE INVISIBLE IN THE PROCESS. |
| 00:22:06 | BUT THE COMPLICATED MORE. |
| 00:22:08 | >> DO IT QUICKLY BECAUSE I SEE SOME OF THE COLLEAGUES OF HERE ARE READY TO GO ON THAT. |
| 00:22:14 | >> WHERE THE MEDIA IS CONCERNED AND WANT TO SUM THIS UP QUICKLY BECAUSE I'M A PART OF THE MEDIA. |
| 00:22:20 | I THINK WE HAVE MISSED THE BOAT ON THIS CAMPAIGN COVERING RACE AND I WANT TO BE FRANK ABOUT THIS. |
| 00:22:25 | WE'VE MISSED THE BOAT WHERE RACE IS CONCERNED IN THIS CAMPAIGN. |
| 00:22:29 | I LOOK AT HOW QUICK WE WERE TO JUMP ON THE LANGUAGE, THE LANGUAGE OF RACE TRANSCENDENCE. |
| 00:22:38 | THAT'S NOT POSSIBLE YET IN AMERICA. |
| 00:22:41 | THERE IS NO RACE TRANSCENDENCE IN AMERICA. |
| 00:22:44 | THEN WE MOVE TO THE NOTION OF POLITICS OF GRIEVANCE AND THE MEDIA AS BLACK FOLK AND PRONTO GET RED AND YELLOW FOLK ART JUMPING ON THIS NOTION OF THE POLITICS OF GRIEVANCE AND NOBODY IS LAUNCHING ANY MORE, NOBODY'S THE FLOPPING ON THE ISSUES. |
| 00:23:02 | SO WHERE THESE ISSUES ARE CONCERNED THE MEDIA HAS FAILED MISERABLY IN CLOSING THIS CONVERSATION ON RACE EARNESTLY AND ADVANCING THE CONVERSATION IN AMERICA. |
| 00:23:14 | >> I WOULD MAKE THE ARGUMENT IF I MIGHT WITH GREAT RESPECT FOR THE THOUGHTS OF THE GOVERNOR WHOSE THOUGHTS ON SHARING OF MY CLOSE AND DEAR FRIEND, TAVIS SMILEY. |
| 00:23:24 | I WOULD LIKE TO MAKE THE ARGUMENT THERE IS A FUNDAMENTAL PARADIGM SHIFT REVAMP THERE SHOULD BE A FUNDAMENTAL PARADIGM SHIFT. |
| 00:23:35 | AND BARACK OBAMA AT THIS HOUR IS THE CATALYST FOR THAT SHIFT. |
| 00:23:40 | WE HAD MODELS AND EXAMPLES IN OUR COMMUNITY AND THIS COUNTRY OF AFRICAN-AMERICANS AND OTHER MINORITIES RUNNING FOR PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES. |
| 00:23:48 | EVERY MEMBER OF THIS PANEL. |
| 00:23:54 | THEY WITNESSED JESSE JACKSON'S CAMPAIGNS THROUGH THIS VERY SAME PROCESS ALL BE A DIFFERENT THERE WERE DIFFERENT RULES. |
| 00:24:01 | AFTER EVERY CAMPAIGN VICTORY OR SECOND PLACE FINISH JESSE JACKSON HAD TO GIVE A SPEECH ABOUT WHERE ARE MY DELEGATES? |
| 00:24:07 | I CAME IN SECOND PLACE BY HAVE NO DELEGATES AS OPPOSED TO TALKING ABOUT THE NEXT STATE OR THE NEXT EDITION TO WIN THE NEXT STAGE JESSE JACKSON RAN THE CAMPAIGN IS ALMOST HAVING TO COMPLAIN ABOUT A PARTY AND THE RULES THAT WOULD DENY HIM THE FAIR SHARE OF DELEGATES. |
| 00:24:23 | WHEN BARACK OBAMA ONE OF IOWA HIS MUCH EDGE AFTER THE CAMPAIGN WAS AND WHERE ARE MY DELEGATES. |
| 00:24:28 | HIS MESSAGE WAS A MESSAGE FOR NEW HAMPSHIRE. |
| 00:24:31 | AND WHEN HE CAME IN SECOND PLACE IN NEW HAMPSHIRE HIS MESSAGE WAS A MESSAGE FOR NEVADA AND AFTER NEVADA HIS MESSAGE, BECAUSE HE GOT HIS FAIR SHARE OF DELEGATES, JESSE JACKSON'S CAMPAIGNS HELPED SHAPE THOSE RULES. |
| 00:24:44 | GOVERNOR WILDER'S CAMPAIGN FOR PRISONER, AL SHARPTON CAMPAIGN FOR PRESIDENT, CAROL BRAUN'S CAMPAIGN FOR PRESIDENT HELPED SHAPE THE RULES. |
| 00:24:52 | THE FIRST THING I THINK IS IMPORTANT SINCE WE HAVE A SUCCESSFUL NOMINEE IS THE ACKNOWLEDGMENT THAT BARACK OBAMA IS THE BENEFICIARY OF THOSE PROCESS CHANGES AND THOSE PROCESS CHANGES MEANS IF YOU'RE SPEAKING IN IOWA YOU MUST SPEAK TO ISSUES OF ETHANOL AND ISSUES OF AGRICULTURE AND THE ISSUE OF GINA LOUISIANAN IS NOT THE ISSUE IN IOWA. |
| 00:25:15 | FOR FARMERS PAID TOO MUCH FOR DIESEL FUEL AND YOU'RE TRYING TO WIN DELEGATES TO GET TO THIS POINT. |
| 00:25:23 | BARACK OBAMA IS THE BENEFICIARY OF THE SUCCESSFUL PROCESS. |
| 00:25:26 | I MIGHT ALSO ADD I HOPE, AND I THINK THIS IS BARACK OBAMA US SENTIMENT, THE LEAST HISTORIC THING IS HE IS THE NOMINEE AND 45TH PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES. |
| 00:25:37 | BARACK OBAMA WANTS HEALTH CARE FOR ALL AMERICANS. |
| 00:25:38 | LET THAT BE HIS LEGACY. |
| 00:25:41 | HE WANTS A PLANE AND SUSTAINABLE GOVERNMENT. |
| 00:25:45 | HE IS NOT DEFINING HIS CANDIDACY BY MILESTONES ASSOCIATED WITH HISTORY OF THE NATION'S HISTORIC RACE DIVIDE. |
| 00:25:53 | THAT'S FOR THE HISTORIANS. |
| 00:25:54 | THEY WILL MAKE A JUDGMENT ABOUT WHETHER OR NOT AMERICANS AT THIS HOUR MADE A JUDGMENT BASED UPON THEIR LEGITIMATE ECONOMIC CONCERNS AND THEIR LEGITIMATE INTERESTS WHICH I MIGHT ADD, TAVIS, PROFOUNDLY IMPACTING AFRICAN-AMERICAN COMMUNITY AND ONE PARTICULARLY IMPRESSED WITH BARACK OBAMA IS HIS VERY CAREFUL USE OF THE ENGLISH-LANGUAGE AND HIS THOUGHTFUL APPROACH SINCE EVERY WORD IS SCRUTINIZED AND CRITICIZED REACHING OUT TO ALL AMERICANS SO THAT NO LANGUAGE EMANATES FROM THE PARTY HEAD THAT CREATES THE KIND OF HISTORIC DIVISIONS THAT KEEPS OUR PARTY FROM MERGING. |
| 00:26:32 | >> FOR ME THOUGH, PART OF THE POLITICAL GENIUS OF MY DEAR BROTHER BARACK OBAMA IS HIS ABILITY TO STAY ON THIS TIGHT ROPE, THE POLITICAL TIGHTROPE THAT HAD MUCH TO DO WITH THE CONTEXT FOR THE LAST 30 YEARS, LET'S GO BACK TO REAGAN IN MISSISSIPPI, THE STRATEGY TAKES OFF EFFECTIVELY IN PLACE OF UNTIL NOW WITH THIS OTHER STRATEGY WELFARE, AFFIRMATIVE ACTION, CRIME WAVE REALIGNING GEORGE WALLACE WHEN HE STOOD IN FRONT OF THE SCHOOL JUNE 11, 1963 AND RECEIVE ALL THESE CALLS FROM AMERICA AND WE ARE LIKE MY GOD THIS IS NOT JUST ALABAMA IT IS THE UNITED STATES OF SOUTHERNERS, THIS IS A SOUTHERN STRATEGY AND THE REPUBLICANS HAVE USED THAT VERY EFFECTIVELY THAT CONSTITUTES THE CORE OF THE POLITICAL ICE AGE IN THE LAST 35 YEARS THAT HAS MADE IT DIFFERENT. |
| 00:27:32 | BARACK OBAMA AND UNDERSTANDS THE HOUSE TO BE IN THE TRANSITIONAL MOMENT ON THE ONE HAND THAT ALLOWS THIS POLITICAL ICE AGE TO MELT -- DAYS, LESBIANS, WOMEN, BLACK FOLK NEED SOME KIND OF FOCUS HOW WE DO THAT WITHOUT IDENTITY POLITICS. |
| 00:27:55 | I DO WANT TO LEAVE A MAJOR CRITIQUE [INAUDIBLE] |
| 00:28:02 | AND POLITICAL I THINK THEY HAVE DONE A KIND OF THIS SERVICE BECAUSE THEY REFLECT AN IMPOVERISHED IMAGINATION TALKING ABOUT RACE BY USING TERMS LIKE POST RACIAL WHERE YOU HAVE A WHITE MALE IN GARY YOU DON'T CALL HIM POST RACIAL. |
| 00:28:28 | HE'S NOT POST RACIAL. |
| 00:28:29 | WHITE FOLKS VOTE FOR BLACK FOLKS, POST RACIAL BECAUSE ESPECIALLY THE LAST 40 YEARS PLANTING IN THE FEARS OF WHITE FOLKS WHEN THEY FINALLY GET DISTANCE FROM THEIR FEAR AND ANXIETY IS A BREAKTHROUGH AND JOURNALISTS HAVE TO USE THIS TERM. |
| 00:28:45 | IT IS FOR HUMANITY. |
| 00:28:47 | THAT'S ALL. |
| 00:28:48 | UNIVERSAL. |
| 00:28:49 | COSMOPOLITAN. |
| 00:28:50 | WHY IS IT BLACK FOLK ALL OF A SUDDEN CALLS IT OPPOSED RACIAL. |
| 00:28:59 | NO, NO. |
| 00:29:00 | NOT AT ALL. |
| 00:29:01 | BLACK, WHITE, RED, YELLOW ACROSS-THE-BOARD. |
| 00:29:06 | WE ARE COLOR BLIND. |
| 00:29:07 | WE VOTED FOR BARACK OBAMA. |
| 00:29:12 | THE CONTRADICTION IS REAL. |
| 00:29:14 | >> IF I MAY I THINK THAT JESSE TOUCHES ON SOMETHING I WOULD LIKE TO LABEL WHAT THIS IS. |
| 00:29:23 | I THINK HE JUST DID. |
| 00:29:26 | THIS WOULD NOT BE THE END OF BLACK POLITICS. |
| 00:29:29 | IT WOULD BE A REDEFINITION OF BLACK POLITICS. |
| 00:29:34 | IT WILL BE A REDEFINITION OF POLITICS IN AMERICA. |
| 00:29:40 | IT WOULD BE A REDEFINITION OF THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY IF YOU LOOK AT ALL OF THIS IN THE HISTORICAL CONTEXT AND I HAPPEN TO HAVE BEEN IN THE 1972 CONVENTION. |
| 00:29:53 | IT WAS MY CONVENTION IN SOUTH CAROLINA CHALLENGED AND I CAST MY VOTE ALONG WITH THE DOCTOR I WAS THE YOUNGEST IN THE DELEGATION AND HE WAS THE OLDEST IN THE DELEGATION AND WE BOTH VOTED. |
| 00:30:09 | NOW I'M PROUD OF THE VOTE AND THAT IS WHY I DO NOT SEE ALL OF THESE HEADLINES ABOUT WHAT THE ROLL CALL VOTE WILL MEAN AS BEING ANYTHING OR THAT NEGATIVE. |
| 00:30:21 | IT IS HOW DELEGATES CONDUCT THEMSELVES ON THE FLOOR AS TO WHAT WILL DEFINE WHETHER OR NOT IT IS A GOOD IDEA. |
| 00:30:29 | IT WAS A GREAT IDEA WHEN WE CAST VOTES FOR THE CONSERVATISM AND WHEN THE CAST VOTES FOR JESSE JACKSON, SENIOR AND BECAME OUT OF THESE THINGS UNITED. |
| 00:30:39 | HOWEVER, WE CAME OUT OF IT IN 1972 WITH A FRACTURED PARTY NOT BECAUSE OF WHAT HAPPENED ON THE DELEGATE FLOOR THAT NIGHT BUT BECAUSE OF WHAT HAPPENED IN THE ROOMS AND HALLS, THE MOTEL'S LEADING UP TO THE FLOOR IS WHERE ALL OF THAT GOT LOST. |
| 00:30:59 | AND SO I AM HOPEFUL AS WE GO FORWARD WITH ALL OF THESE POLITICAL ISSUES WE WILL REMEMBER HEALTH CARE, THE FACT OF THE MATTER IS THE MAJORITY OF 47 MILLION HAPPEN TO BE WHITE. |
| 00:31:19 | THE ENERGY POLICIES THAT WE HAVE TO SOLVE IN THIS COUNTRY, THESE ENERGY POLICIES IMPACT A MAJORITY OF WHITE PEOPLE SO WHAT WE WILL HAVE HERE IS A REDEFINITION OF BLACK POLITICS IN AMERICA AS WELL AS REDEFINITION OF POLITICS IN AMERICA. |
| 00:31:40 | >> I WOULD LIKE TO AGAIN REPORT A POINT. |
| 00:31:42 | THIS IS THE AUGUST CONVENTION IN THE HISTORY OF THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY AND THE MOST DIVERSE. |
| 00:31:48 | ANY OF THESE ACTIVISTS FIGHTING EACH OTHER A YEAR AND A HALF ARE NOW CONVENING. |
| 00:31:53 | WE ARE CONVENTION IN AND GETTING TO MEET EACH OTHER FOR THE FIRST TIME IN A YEAR AND A HALF BATTLE IN A HISTORIC BATTLE THAT EXPANDED THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY. |
| 00:32:02 | YES THERE ARE SOME WOUNDS, YES SOME SCABS BUT SOMETIMES A SCAB IS A LITTLE BIT OF TOPOS BUT WE HAVE TO PUT THIS IN FACT AND SO THAT WE CAN HEAL THE WOUND AND MOVE FORWARD. |
| 00:32:12 | THAT IS WHAT THE CONVENTION IS ABOUT. |
| 00:32:15 | YES HILLARY CLINTON MUST SPEAK AND BILL CLINTON MUST SPEAK AND BARACK OBAMA FORCES MUST SPEAK TO BRING THE PARTY TOGETHER BUT LET ME JUST ADD TO THIS POINT JIM RAISED ON THE PARADIGM SHIFT I THINK IS SO CRITICAL AND IMPORTANT, THE ANALOGY I LIKE TO USE IN THIS PHASE IS JACKIE ROBINSON. |
| 00:32:35 | BARACK OBAMA IS JACKIE ROBINSON. |
| 00:32:37 | HE HAS THE CAPACITY TO HIT EVERYONE KNOWS THAT HE'S THE DEMOCRATIC NOMINEE. |
| 00:32:41 | BUT HE IS IN A SITUATION WHERE HE CANNOT HIT BACK WHICH JACKIE ROBINSON COULD NOT DO. |
| 00:32:49 | HE HAD TO CATCH THE BALL, HE HAD TO PLAY BALL. |
| 00:32:53 | HE HAD TO BE THE BALL AND RUN THE BASES EVEN THOUGH THE CROWD WAS JEERING THE FIRST AFRICAN-AMERICAN ON THE FIELD. |
| 00:33:00 | HE CANNOT HIT BACK. |
| 00:33:02 | HE HAS TO KEEP SMILING. |
| 00:33:04 | NO ONE WANTS AN ANGRY AFRICAN-AMERICAN MAN IN THE WHITE HOUSE. |
| 00:33:08 | [LAUGHTER] BUT BARACK OBAMA IS CAPABLE OF HITTING. |
| 00:33:12 | WHAT WE NEED AND WHAT THIS CONVENTION I'M INCREASINGLY CONVINCED IS ABOUT IS ABOUT JACKIE ROBINSON IN THE FIELD BEING JEERED BY THE CROWD AND PEEWEE REESE BRINGING HIS CREDIBILITY THE JACKIE ROBINSON PUTTING HIS ARM AROUND JACKIE ROBINSON AND IT IS ESSENTIALLY SENDING A MESSAGE TO THE REST OF THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY THIS IS MY TEAMMATE. |
| 00:33:41 | >> JESSE, FURTHER THE ANALOGY. |
| 00:33:42 | HE'S GOT TO BE ABLE TO HIT AND RUN THE BASES. |
| 00:33:47 | THAT IS WHERE THE RUBBER MEETS THE ROAD. |
| 00:33:53 | HE COULD HIT BUT HE'S GOING TO HAVE TO DEMONSTRATE BETWEEN NOW AND NOVEMBER 4 IF HE CAN RUN THE BASES. |
| 00:33:59 | >> HILLARY CLINTON WILL HAVE THE PEEWEE REESE MOMENT. |
| 00:34:03 | BILL CLINTON WILL HAVE THE PEEWEE REESE MOMENT. |
| 00:34:05 | EDWARD WILL HAVE THE MOMENT. |
| 00:34:07 | THROUGHOUT THESE CONVENTIONS AS THE MICROPHONES ARE STUCK IN EVERYONE'S FACES THERE WILL BE GIVEN THE OPPORTUNITY TO PUT THEIR ARM AROUND OUR BY SO HE CAN RUN THE BASES. |
| 00:34:16 | >> BUT IN THE PROBLEM IS BACK TO TAVIS'S PLIGHT IF YOU GET JACKIE ROBINSON HITTING AND RUNNING THE BASES BUT CAN'T PICK BACK YOU'VE GOT FOLKS IN THE BLEACHERS [INAUDIBLE] |
| 00:34:29 | WE HAVE A MAJOR PROBLEM. |
| 00:34:34 | IF IN FACT THEY REACH THE POINT IT LOOKS AS IF THIS IS ANOTHER FORM OF DENIAL WITH A BLACK FACE AND HIGH PLACE THAT HAS THIS EDUCATION AND EMPLOYMENT, THIS RACIAL SCHOOL SYSTEMS ARE IN VISIBLE WE HAVE A PROBLEM RECONCILING THAT SPEAKS TO THE ISSUE WHEN CONTINUE TO SPEAK IN SUCH A WAY THAT THE PEEWEE REESE MOMENTS RESULT IN MORE RUNNING THE BASES AND HITTING AND NOT ACKNOWLEDGING THERE'S A REASON TO RUN THE BASES NOT JUST FOR HIM AT THE VERY FOLKS, NOT JUST THE THE WHITE FOLKS BUT FOR THE PUBLIC INTEREST. |
| 00:35:11 | >> AT TO GET TO THAT EARLIER WHETHER OR NOT WE DON'T SEE IT AS THE END OF BLACK POLITICS, WHETHER OR NOT THE MEDIA WHICH IS A MUCH MORE POWER WAFFLED ENTITY. |
| 00:35:19 | WHETHER OR NOT THE MEDIA HAS REACHED THE POINT OF EXHAUSTION WITH THIS NOTION OF BLACK POLITICS. |
| 00:35:28 | I'M CONCERNED, THE GOVERNOR COURAGEOUSLY RAISED THE ISSUE. |
| 00:35:32 | I WANT TO RAISE THE KING ISSUE. |
| 00:35:34 | EVERYONE TO JESSE'S POINT ABOUT THE MICROPHONES EVERYWHERE, THIS WILL BE THE MOMENT THIS MAKER OF YOUR BODY INCLUDING MR. |
| 00:35:41 | OBAMA IS QUITE A CELEBRATE DR. |
| 00:35:43 | KING'S I HAVE A DREAM SPEECH 45 YEARS AGO. |
| 00:35:45 | I CAN SEE THIS AND YOU CAN SEE THIS NOW OBAMA HITS THE SPURS TONIGHT, THE CAMERAS ARE GOING TO BE ON THE STAGE AND THERE'S NOT GOING TO BE A DRY EYE IN THE HOUSE AND WE'RE GOING TO CELEBRATE MARTIN 45 YEARS AGO THAT HE LIVED FIVE YEARS AFTER THE SPEECH IN 63 AND BY THE TIME HE HAD GOTTEN TO 66 HE HIMSELF WAS ALREADY CONCERNED AND REFERRING TO THE DREAM HE HAD AN 63 AS A NIGHTMARE. |
| 00:36:11 | WE ARE STILL IN THAT MOMENT BEFORE WE GET NOSTALGIC ABOUT THE WONDERFUL SPEECH TO BE SURE WE HAVE TO PROPERLY CONTEXTUALIZE EVEN IN HIS OWN LIFETIME WHAT KING WAS SAYING ABOUT THE NIGHTMARE AND SAYING ABOUT THE ISSUE OF POVERTY NEEDING TO BE THE NUMBER ONE ISSUE IN AMERICA IN THE BLACK FOLKS AND OF THE PEOPLE OF COLOR ARE STILL WRESTLING WITH THOSE VERY ISSUES SO I JUST WANT TO MAKE SURE THIS WEEK WE TALK ABOUT ACCOUNTABILITY POVERTY AND HEALTH AND WE DON'T GET SO WRAPPED UP IN THE SYMBOLISM, WHICH I CELEBRATE. |
| 00:36:44 | I REVELED IN BARACK OBAMA. |
| 00:36:45 | BUT IT'S NOT JUST SYMBOLISM, JESSE. |
| 00:36:48 | IT SUBSTANCE AS WELL. |
| 00:36:51 | >> THE 1963 SPEECH WAS IN THE CONTEXT OF THE PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN. |
| 00:36:55 | AND THE GOLDWATER WRITES, THE STATE WRITERS, THE LOCAL CONTROL ADVOCATES, KING HAS THE CLEAR POSITION IN SUPPORT OF THE KENNEDY AND JOHNSON EFFORT. |
| 00:37:06 | A MORE PERFECT UNION. |
| 00:37:08 | THE IDEA THE CENTRAL GOVERNMENT HAS A ROLE IN THE STATES AND IT IS THE STATE'S GEORGIA AND ALABAMA AND MISSISSIPPI MENTIONS THE STATES WHICH WE HAVE A PROFOUND PROBLEM IN THE I HAVE A DREAM SPEECH IN THE CONTEXT OF THE 1963 AUGUST 28, MIDDLE OF ANOTHER PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN KENNEDY VERSUS COLD WATER AND HE MAKES THE CASE WE NEED TO COME TOGETHER ACROSS THE STATE LINES. |
| 00:37:31 | HE HAS A DREAM OF AN AMERICA THAT IS A MORE PERFECT UNION AND SO BARACK OBAMA SPEECHES IN THE CONTEXT OF THE PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN AND I THINK WHILE HE IS TESTING THE BURDEN OF CRITICS AND NOT THE CRITICS ESTABLISHED BY JOHN McCAIN BARACK OBAMA IS IN THE UNIQUE POSITION TO ARTICULATE A MESSAGE TO ALL AMERICANS AND THIS IS NOT ABOUT PREVENT RACIAL POINTS. |
| 00:37:57 | [INAUDIBLE] >> I THINK WE HAVE STRAYED CONSIDERABLY FROM TAVIS'S CRESTON. |
| 00:38:03 | [LAUGHTER] >> I DON'T THINK SO. |
| 00:38:05 | >> I THINK WE HAVE. |
| 00:38:06 | THE QUESTION WAS IS AMERICA READY, NOT BLACK AMERICA, IS AMERICA READY FOR AN AFRICAN-AMERICAN. |
| 00:38:13 | AND THEN IT TAILED OFF INTO WELL, WHAT WOULD THE CLINTONS NEED TO DO? |
| 00:38:20 | YES, THEY CAN SPEAK. |
| 00:38:21 | NOTHING WRONG WITH THAT. |
| 00:38:23 | BUT WHAT DOES BARACK OBAMA NEED TO DO TO CONVINCE CLINTON SUPPORTERS HE'S CAPABLE OF BEING PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES? |
| 00:38:30 | THAT'S THE QUESTION. |
| 00:38:33 | THAT IS THE QUESTION. |
| 00:38:38 | [INAUDIBLE] WAIT A MINUTE. |
| 00:38:39 | ON THE HEADLINE OF THE USA TODAY IF YOU READ IT, NOW YOU MIGHT NOT WANT TO DISCUSS IT, THAT IS ABSOLUTELY NO AFRICAN-AMERICAN OR ANY PERSON EVER CHOSEN TO BE THE SPOKESPERSON FOR RACE. |
| 00:38:54 | WHY WOULD TO PICK OBAMA OUT SAVE THE PEOPLE SAY HE IS THE SPOKESPERSON. |
| 00:39:00 | HE SHOULDN'T BE. WAIT A MINUTE. |
| 00:39:01 | IT IS A DISSERVICE TO HIM. |
| 00:39:05 | >> WHAT WE EXPLOIT RESPECTIVELY. |
| 00:39:06 | I'M ONLY RAISING ABOUT BECAUSE THAT WAS SENT TO US AND OUR NOTES, NUMBER ONE. |
| 00:39:13 | BUT IT IS A SERIOUS POINT, MORE BROADLY IT IS A QUESTION, THAT'S PRECISELY MY POINT IF YOU MISSED A BAD, THE MAINSTREAM MEDIA KEEPS RAISING THIS QUESTION. |
| 00:39:21 | I DIDN'T RAISE THE QUESTION TODAY. |
| 00:39:25 | EVERY MAJOR [INAUDIBLE] |
| 00:39:28 | >> BARACK OBAMA SHOULD EXPECT FROM THE CLINTONS AND ANYONE ELSE IN THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY THE EXACT SAME LOYALTY THE AFRICAN-AMERICANS HAVE GIVEN EVERY NOMINEE. |
| 00:39:39 | THIS IS NOT ABOUT BLACK AND WHITE. |
| 00:39:41 | >> THAT SHOULD BE TODAY. |
| 00:39:44 | >> THAT'S CORRECT. |
| 00:39:46 | [LAUGHTER] [APPLAUSE] >> THIS CONVERSATION FROM EARLIER TODAY IN DENVER, COLORADO, YOU WOULD LIKE TO OPEN UP THE PHONES TO ASK YOU THE QUESTION OF WHAT YOU THINK THE WHOLE ISSUE OF RACE AS IT COMES UP IN THIS ELECTION. |
| 00:39:58 | YOU'LL SEE THE PHONE NUMBERS ON THE BOTTOM OF YOUR SCREEN. |
| 00:40:02 | IF YOU SUPPORT SENATOR OBAMA, 202-624-1111. |
| 00:40:08 | IF YOU SUPPORT McCAIN, 624-1115 AND ALL OTHERS, 624-0760 AND I WILL TELL YOU SPECIFICALLY WE WANT TO TALK TO YOUR REACTION TO THE 20 MINUTE SEGMENT YOU JUST SAW IT AS YOUR PHONE CALLS ARE COMING IN WE ARE GOING TO TAKE A LOOK AT A LIVE PICTURE FROM THE GAS PIPE -- SKYPE. |
| 00:40:34 | BRENDA MCLEAN, LIVE VIDEO COMING FROM INSIDE THE PEPSI CENTER. |
| 00:41:15 | [INAUDIBLE] [INAUDIBLE] [INAUDIBLE] >> DELEGATES OUTSIDE THE CONVENTION FLOOR LIVE PICTURE VIA SKYPE VIDEO. |
| 00:41:22 | WE ARE GOING TO TAKE CALLS UNTIL THE TIME MICHELLE OBAMA IS SCHEDULED TO GIVE HER SPEECH AND WE WILL TAKE YOU LIVE TO THE FLOOR OF THE CONVENTION. |
| 00:41:30 | ALSO JUST BEFORE WE START TAKING CALLS A BRIEF PROGRAMMING NOTE TOMORROW MORNING THERE'S GOING TO BE ANOTHER ONE OF THESE CONVENTION CONVERSATIONS LIKE THE ONE YOU JUST SAW THREE THIS ONE WILL INCLUDE SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE NANCY PELOSI AND BEGINS 10:30 A. |
| 00:41:46 | M. ON OUR SISTER NETWORK C-SPAN. |
| 00:41:48 | LET'S GET THE CALLS. |
| 00:41:49 | AGAIN THE ISSUE IS RACE IN THIS PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION. |
| 00:41:54 | INDIANA, YOUR FIRST UP. |
| 00:41:57 | HELLO. |
| 00:41:58 | INDIANOLA, ARE YOU THERE? |
| 00:42:00 | >> Caller: YES, I AM. |
| 00:42:02 | >> PLEASE GO AHEAD. |
| 00:42:03 | HOW >> Caller: YES I AM HERE. |
| 00:42:10 | I DON'T THINK IT SHOULD BE A RACIAL THING. |
| 00:42:14 | THAT'S WHAT IT WAS BASED ON A LONG TIME AGO, RATIO. |
| 00:42:17 | IT'S A NEW YEAR. |
| 00:42:18 | 2008. |
| 00:42:19 | WE SHOULD GET OVER THAT AND EVERYONE SHOULD COME TOGETHER AS ONE. |
| 00:42:23 | >> DO YOU THINK THAT'S POSSIBLE? |
| 00:42:25 | >> Caller: YES, IT SHOULD BE POSSIBLE. |
| 00:42:29 | WE CAN DO IT. |
| 00:42:32 | >> PANAMA CITY, FLORIDA. |
| 00:42:35 | PANAMA CITY BEACH FLORIDA, GO AHEAD. |
| 00:42:37 | >> Caller: THANK YOU FOR TAKING MY CALL. |
| 00:42:41 | SENATOR OBAMA RECENTLY VISITED THE MIDDLE EAST AND I THINK THEY BASICALLY TOOK HIS VISIT OUT OF RESPECT AND I DON'T THINK THAT HE WAS WELL RECEIVED WHEN YOU LOOK AT SENATOR McCAIN WE LOOK TOWARDS EXPERIENCE AND DEALING WITH THE ISSUES IN THE MIDDLE EAST AS WELL AS ACROSS-THE-BOARD SUCH AS THE RUSSIAN GEORGIA SITUATION SO WE HAVE TO LOOK FOR A PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE SUCH AS SENATOR McCAIN WHO PASS THAT TYPE OF EXPERIENCE WHO HAS DEALT WITH THIS IN THE PAST. |
| 00:43:12 | I DON'T THINK SENATOR OBAMA BRINGS THAT EXPERIENCE TO THE TABLE. |
| 00:43:18 | >> Host: CALLER, EXCUSE -- THANK YOU FOR YOUR PHONE CALL BUT WE ARE TALKING ABOUT THE ISSUE OF RACE IN THIS ELECTION. |
| 00:43:24 | >> Caller: IT SHOULDN'T BE A PART OF IT. |
| 00:43:26 | IT SHOULDN'T BE PART OF THE PROCESS. |
| 00:43:30 | >> Host: THANK YOU. |
| 00:43:31 | LAKES FEW INDIANA. |
| 00:43:32 | >> Caller: HELLO, MY NAME IS REGINA AND I FEEL THAT THE RACE PROBLEM SHOULD BE BURIED. |
| 00:43:38 | A LOT OF US HAVE OUR OWN FAMILIES WHO HAVE MIXED RELATIONS AND WE ARE ALL GOD'S CHILDREN AND WE SHOULD STAND BEHIND OBAMA AND HOPEFULLY SOMETHING NEW WILL COME OF THIS AND WE DO NEED A NEW TIME AND IRAQ. |
| 00:43:57 | JOHN F. |
| 00:43:58 | KENNEDY OF WAS A SOPHOMORE WHEN HE GOT KILLED. |
| 00:44:01 | AND BELIEVE ME, I AGREE WITH CAROLINE. |
| 00:44:06 | WE HAVE TO HAVE A NEW CHANGE. |
| 00:44:10 | AND BY HIM HAVING MR. |
| 00:44:15 | JOE BIDEN FOR A RUNNING MATE I THINK THAT IS ONE WAY OF APPEALING THE RACE PROBLEM. |
| 00:44:26 | WE HAVE TO PUT THAT BEHIND US TO MAKE ALL OF US AS ONE. |
| 00:44:29 | AND WE SHOULD TRY TO WORK TOGETHER. |
| 00:44:34 | >> Host: IF YOU WATCHED OR READ A LITTLE BIT ABOUT WHAT DAVID MARRIED AND HAS TOURED IN THE "WASHINGTON POST" THIS PAST WEEK HE WROTE AN EXTREMELY LONG BIOGRAPHY OF THE PORTION OF OBAMA'S LIFE THAT HAPPENED IN HAWAII AND AS PART OF THAT THE USE A GRAPH THAT SHOWED SOME OF THE GALLUP POLL QUESTIONS THE ISSUE OF RACE IN PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS OVER THE YEARS. |
| 00:44:56 | 1978 FOR INSTANCE THE QUESTION WAS ASKED IN THE GALLUP POLL IF YOUR PARTY NOMINATED THE GENERALLY WELL QUALIFIED PERSON FOR PRESIDENT WHO HAPPENED TO BE BLACK WOULD YOU VOTE FOR THAT PERSON? |
| 00:45:10 | 1978, 77% SAID THEY WOULD. |
| 00:45:13 | AND 18% NO, THEY WOULD NOT. |
| 00:45:17 | HOWEVER, BY 1999, WE CAN TAKE A LOOK AT THAT, 1999, THE SAME QUESTION WAS ASKED IN A GALLUP POLL AND 95% SAID YES AND 4% SAID NO AND 1% HAD NO REACTION. |
| 00:45:32 | FINALLY THE QUESTION ASKED AGAIN WAS DECEMBER, 2007 IN THE GALLUP POLL. |
| 00:45:39 | 93% ANSWERED THE QUESTION AFFIRMATIVE. |
| 00:45:41 | 5% SAID NO. |
| 00:45:42 | NEXT IS COLUMBUS, OHIO. |
| 00:45:45 | GO AHEAD. |
| 00:45:47 | >> Caller: YES, I BELIEVE RACE SHOULD NOT BE AN ISSUE IN THIS RACE. |
| 00:45:51 | WE ARE LOOKING FOR CHANGE AND THAT IS WHAT WE SHOULD BE EXPECTANT IS CHANGE AND SHOULD NOT BE ERASED ON -- BASED ON RACE. |
| 00:45:59 | >> Host: IS THE POSSIBLE? |
| 00:46:00 | >> Caller: I BELIEVE IT IS. |
| 00:46:01 | THAT IS HOW WE'VE COME TO WHERE WE ARE AND THAT'S THE WHOLE PURPOSE OF THIS CHANGE. |
| 00:46:07 | >> Host: THANK YOU. GEORGIA ON THE REPUBLICAN LINE. |
| 00:46:11 | >> Caller: YES, MA'AM. |
| 00:46:13 | I DON'T THINK RACE SHOULD HAVE ANY CONSIDERATION. |
| 00:46:18 | HOWEVER I DO SEE IT AS A GENDER ISSUE AND TO ME HILLARY BEING LEFT OFF THE TICKET IS A SLAP IN THE FACE TO WOMEN IN GENERAL. |
| 00:46:30 | I WAS A HILLARY CLINTON SUPPORTER AND I'VE BEEN LEANING TOWARDS McCAIN AND I AM VERY DISAPPOINTED THE WAY SHE WAS TREATED AND IT'S NOT ABOUT HER, IT IS ABOUT THE WAY THAT WOMEN IN GENERAL WERE TREATED. |
| 00:46:44 | >> Host: THANK YOU. |
| 00:46:46 | GEORGIA, REPUBLICAN LINE. |
| 00:46:49 | GEORGIA, ARE YOU THERE? |
| 00:46:51 | GEORGIA IS ON THERE. |
| 00:46:53 | WELL, WE'RE GOING TO TAKE YOU LIVE TO THE FLOOR OF THE DNC WHERE IN JUST A FEW MOMENTS MICHELLE OBAMA WILL BE TO SPEAK. |
| 00:47:00 | THEY ARE RIGHT IN THE MIDDLE OF A VIDEO TRIBUTE TO HER. |
| 00:47:05 | >> WE TEASED HER HOUSE SOME PEOPLE WENT AWAY TO COLLEGE AND NEVER CAME BACK TO THEIR COMMUNITY. |
| 00:47:10 | >> MY MOM AND DAD BUT ALWAYS SAY A FEW PEOPLE WOULD COME BACK AND LIVE IN THE COMMUNITY AND WOULD MAKE ALL THE DIFFERENCE IN THE WORLD AND WE TALKED ABOUT THAT A LOT. |
| 00:47:19 | >> SHE WAS VERY COMMITTED TO THE SOUTH SIDE CHICAGO. |
| 00:47:23 | SHE WAS DEDICATED USING HER SKILLS AND HER TALENT TO LIFT OTHER SUP. |
| 00:47:26 | >> AFTER LAW SCHOOL, MICHELLE CAME BACK AND AT FIRST WORKED FOR A BIG LAW FIRM. |
| 00:47:33 | THAT IS WHERE SHE MET BARACK OBAMA. |
| 00:47:36 | >> THE FIRM WAS ABUZZ ABOUT THIS HOT SHOT FIRST-YEAR LAW STUDENT FROM HARVARD. |
| 00:47:40 | HIS NAME WAS BARACK OBAMA AND I THOUGHT WELL, WHO NAMES THERE KIDDE BARACK OBAMA, SO I FIGURED THIS GUY HAD TO BE WEIRD. |
| 00:47:49 | >> SHE WAS ASSIGNED AS MY SUMMER ADVISER. |
| 00:47:52 | I WAS LATE THAT DAY. |
| 00:47:53 | I DON'T THINK I MADE SUCH A GREAT IMPRESSION SHE WAS DAZZLING. |
| 00:47:57 | >> WHEN WE FIRST SHOWED UP HE WAS ILL LITTLE LATE SO I THOUGHT MAYBE HE DIDN'T HAVE HIS ACT TOGETHER BUT THEN WHEN HE WALKED IN HE WAS VERY HANDSOME AND HE HAD THIS INTEREST IN HIM I DIDN'T EXPECT. |
| 00:48:09 | >> I DIDN'T SEE A RING ON HER HAND. |
| 00:48:13 | ETERNAL SHE DIDN'T HAVE A BOYFRIEND THAT SHE WAS RESISTANT TO THE IDEA OF SOME INTEROFFICE DATING. |
| 00:48:19 | I ASKED HER A COUPLE OF TIMES AND SHE WAS SORT OF PUSHING ME OFF A LITTLE BIT. |
| 00:48:23 | >> AND THEN HE MADE HIS BIG MOVE. |
| 00:48:27 | >> FINALLY THERE WAS A COMPANY PICNIC AND ON THE DRIVE BACK OFFERED TO BUY HER ICE CREAM. |
| 00:48:32 | THAT IS WHAT PUT HER OVER THE TOP. |
| 00:48:35 | THAT IS WHEN SHE SAID, YOU KNOW, THIS GUY KNOWS HOW TO TREAT A WOMAN. |
| 00:48:41 | (music)(music) >> ABOUT THE LAW FIRM WASN'T RIGHT FOR HER. |
| 00:48:44 | ALL THOSE YEARS AGO WE TAUGHT HER TO SERVE HER COMMUNITY. |
| 00:48:47 | AND THAT IS WHAT SHE ENDED UP DOING. |
| 00:48:51 | >> MICHELLE CAME TO WORK WITH US IN THE MAYOR'S OFFICE AND AFTER A COUPLE OF YEARS SHE WENT TO WORK IN PUBLIC ALLIES WHICH IS AN ORGANIZATION THAT MENTOR YOUNG PEOPLE AND GAVE THEM AN OPPORTUNITY TO LEARN PUBLIC-SERVICE WORK AND SHE DID THIS BECAUSE THIS WAS IMPORTANT TO HER. |
| 00:49:04 | IT DIDN'T MATTER IT DIDN'T PAY MONEY TO READ THIS WAS IMPORTANT TO HER, THIS WAS HER MISSION AT SOMETHING SHE WANTED TO DO. |
| 00:49:11 | >> I THINK THE SHOW HAS A GIFT FORESEEING POTENTIAL OF PEOPLE THAT THEY DON'T EVEN KNOW IS THERE. |
| 00:49:16 | YOU KNOW, THE PUBLIC ALLIES CLASS HAD PEOPLE THAT IF YOU SAW THEM WALKING DOWN THE STREET CASH YOU WOULDN'T ASSUME THESE PEOPLE WOULD BE COMMUNITY LEADERS. |
| 00:49:24 | BUT SO MANY OF THEM WENT ON TO CAREERS AND LIVES IN PUBLIC SERVICE THAT SHE MUST HAVE SOME KIND OF UNCOMMON GIFT AND SEEING THAT AND PEOPLE. |
| 00:49:32 | >> I'M EXCITED FOR PEOPLE TO SEE THE MASHAAL BUT I KNEW. |
| 00:49:35 | THE MICHELLE I MISS IN MY LIFE. |
| 00:49:37 | THE MICHELLE WHO THREW A CASUAL JOKE FOR COMMENT OR HOG AND THE CORRIDOR WHO COULD MAKE YOU FEEL LIKE YOU TO DO ANYTHING. |
| 00:49:45 | (music)(music) >> MICHELLE WAS LIKE A MOM TO SO MANY PEOPLE OVER THE YEARS. |
| 00:49:49 | IT'S NO SURPRISE TO ME SHE HAS BEEN A WONDERFUL, CARING MOTHER TO HER OWN CHILDREN. |
| 00:49:55 | SHE'S AN AMAZING MOM. |
| 00:49:57 | I MEAN, FOR HER THAT IS WHAT LIFE IS ALL ABOUT, HER CHILDREN. |
| 00:50:01 | THE GIRLS ARE EXTREMELY GROUNDED, VERY LOVING, VERY SMART, THEY KNOW RIGHT FROM WRONG AND IT'S ALL ABOUT HER KIDS. |
| 00:50:11 | (music)(music) >> MICHELLE WAS ABLE TO FIND THE BALANCE BETWEEN CAREER AND BEING A MOM. |
| 00:50:17 | AFTER PUBLIC ALLIES, SHE WENT ON TO CREATE THE COMMUNITY SERVICE CENTER AT THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO. |
| 00:50:24 | AND LAID COMMUNITY OUTREACH FOR THE UNIVERSITY'S HOSPITALS. |
| 00:50:28 | >> MESHAAL HAS ALWAYS REACH OUT TO OTHERS. |
| 00:50:31 | IT WAS SOMETHING I LOVED ABOUT MY HUSBAND TO ACT. |
| 00:50:36 | >> MICHELE'S COMPASSION AND FROM MY FATHER. |
| 00:50:40 | AND PEOPLE CAME TO HIM WITH THEIR PROBLEMS AND HE ALWAYS MANAGED TO HAVE PEOPLE GO AWAY FEELING BETTER THAN THEY DID WHEN THEY CAME TO TALK TO HIM. |
| 00:50:49 | I'M CERTAIN THAT IS WHERE MICHELLE GETS HER COMPASSION FOR A. |
| 00:50:56 | >> MY FATHER DIED VERY EARLY FROM COMPLICATIONS FROM MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS AND I THINK ABOUT HIM EVERY DAY WHEN I THINK ABOUT HOW WHY RAISE MY KIDS BECAUSE I REMEMBER HIS COMPASSION. |
| 00:51:09 | I REMEMBER THE WORDS, HIS ADVICE, THE WAY HE LIVED LIFE, AND I'M TRYING EACH AND EVERY DAY TO APPLY THAT TO HOW WHY RAISE MY KIDS. |
| 00:51:18 | I WANT HIS LEGACY TO LIVE THROUGH THEM. |
| 00:51:22 | AND HOPEFULLY IT WILL AFFECT THE KIND OF FIRST LADY THAT I WILL BECOME. |
| 00:51:26 | BECAUSE IT'S HIS COMPASSION AND HIS VIEW OF THE WORLD THAT REALLY ENDS LAWYERS WHO I AM, WHO I WANT MY GIRLS TO BE, AND WHAT I HOPE FOR THE COUNTRY. |
| 00:51:36 | (music)(music) >> THIS IS MY DAUGHTER. |
| 00:51:38 | WHEN SHE WAS YOUNG, I REMEMBER HOW SHE WOULD LOOK UP TO US. |
| 00:51:44 | NOW, I LOOK UP TO HER. |
| 00:51:47 | I HOPE AMERICA GETS TO KNOW THE GIRL WE RAISED AND THE WOMAN SHE BECAME, BECAUSE SHE IS THE MOST REMARKABLE PERSON I KNOW. |
| 00:51:58 | I WISH MY HUSBAND COULD SEE THIS DAY. |
| 00:52:03 | BUT EVERYDAY I GET TO SEE A PIECE OF HIM IN HER. |
| 00:52:07 | AND FOR THAT, I AM SO PROUD. |
| 00:52:11 | AND SO BLESSED. |
| 00:52:20 | (music)(music) [APPLAUSE] [CHEERS AND APPLAUSE] |
| 00:52:22 | [CHEERS AND APPLAUSE] |
| 00:52:32 | >> GOOD EVENING. |
| 00:52:34 | I'M CRAIG ROBINSON, AND MICHELLE OBAMA IS MY LITTLE SISTER. |
| 00:52:40 | [CHEERS AND APPLAUSE] |
| 00:52:44 | TONIGHT I WANT TO INTRODUCE YOU TO MY SISTER, THE GIRL I GREW UP WITH, THE PLAYS THE YOUNG WOMAN I SAW HER GROWING TOO. |
| 00:52:53 | THE COMPASSIONATE MOTHER, AUNT, AND SISTER SHE IS. |
| 00:52:58 | THE PASSIONATE VOICE FOR WOMEN AND CHILDREN SHE HAS BECOME. |
| 00:53:03 | AND THE TYPE OF FIRST LADY SHE WILL BE. |
| 00:53:08 | [CHEERS AND APPLAUSE] |
| 00:53:14 | SOMETIMES WHEN I LOOK AT THE WOMAN YOU'RE ABOUT TO HEAR FROM, IT'S FUNNY TO THINK THAT THIS IS THE SAME PERSON WHO USED TO WAKE ME UP EARLY, AND I MEAN EARLY, ON CHRISTMAS MORNING. |
| 00:53:27 | THIS IS THE PERSON WHO WOULD PLAY THE PIANO TO CALL ME DOWN BEFORE MY BIG GAMES IN HIGH SCHOOL. |
| 00:53:34 | THIS IS THE PERSON WHO, EVEN THOUGH WE WERE ALLOWED ONLY ONE HOUR OF TELEVISION A NIGHT, SOMEHOW MANAGED TO MEMORIZE EVERY SINGLE EPISODE OF THE BRADY BUNCH. |
| 00:53:50 | [LAUGHTER] BUT WHEN I REALLY THINK BACK, I CAN ALSO SEE HOW THE PERSON SHE IS TODAY WAS FORMED IN THE EXPERIENCES WE SHARED GROWING UP. |
| 00:54:00 | WORKING HARD, STUDYING HARD, HAVING PARENTS WHO WANTED MORE FOR LESS THAN THEY HAD. |
| 00:54:10 | AND ALWAYS BEING REMINDED THAT IN THIS COUNTRY OF ALL COUNTRIES, THOSE THINGS WERE POSSIBLE. |
| 00:54:22 | [APPLAUSE] NEITHER OF OUR PARENTS WENT TO COLLEGE. |
| 00:54:25 | MY FATHER WENT TO WORK RIGHT OUT OF HIGH SCHOOL TO HELP PAY FOR HIS BROTHER'S COLLEGE TUITION. |
| 00:54:31 | HE WORKED OUT THE WATER FILTRATION PLANT FOR 30 YEARS. |
| 00:54:36 | WE LOST MY FATHER IN 1991. |
| 00:54:39 | AND I KNOW HE IS LOOKING DOWN ON US TONIGHT, SO PROUD OF HIS DAUGHTER. |
| 00:54:45 | NOT BECAUSE OF WHO SHE MARRIED, THOUGH HE WAS A BIG FAN OF BARACK, BUT THE HARD-WORKING BURLY AND WOMAN THAT SHE IS. |
| 00:54:58 | [CHEERS AND APPLAUSE] |
| 00:55:01 | WHAT SHE HAS ACCOMPLISHED IN HER OWN RIGHT, THE MOTHER SHE HAS BECOME AND THE VALUE SHE INSTILLED IN HER DAUGHTER'S. |
| 00:55:10 | MY MOTHER, MARION, IS HERE TONIGHT. |
| 00:55:14 | SHE REMAINS OUR FAMILY'S ANCHOR, AND THE SOLE REASON THAT MESHAAL WAS WILLING TO CAMPAIGN AT ALL WAS BECAUSE SHE KNEW THAT MOM WAS THERE TO TAKE CARE OF THE GIRLS. |
| 00:55:30 | [APPLAUSE] WHEN WE WERE YOUNG KIDS OUR PARENTS DIVIDED THE BEDROOM WE SHARED SO WE COULD EACH HAVE OUR OWN ROOM. |
| 00:55:40 | MANY NIGHTS WE WOULD TALK WHEN WE WERE SUPPOSED TO BE SLEEPING. |
| 00:55:44 | MY SISTER ALWAYS TALKED ABOUT WHO WAS GETTING PUT ON A SCHOOL OR WHO WAS HAVING A TOUGH TIME AT HOME. |
| 00:55:51 | I DIDN'T REALIZE IT THEN, BUT I REALIZE IT NOW THOSE WERE THE PEOPLE SHE WAS GOING TO DEDICATE HER LIFE TO. |
| 00:55:59 | THE PEOPLE WHO WERE STRUGGLING WITH LIFE'S CHALLENGES. |
| 00:56:04 | SHE IS CONTINUED TO FOLLOW THAT PASSION. |
| 00:56:06 | SHE GAVE UP A BIG JOB AND A LAW FIRM TO WORK IN HER COMMUNITY WITH A GROUP CALLED PUBLIC ALLIES. |
| 00:56:14 | SHE TRAINED A NEW GENERATION OF COMMUNITY LEADERS. |
| 00:56:16 | SHE DEVELOPED THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO IS COMMUNITY SERVICE CENTER CONNECTING THE UNIVERSITY TO THE NEIGHBORHOOD THAT WAS BLOGS AWAY BUT ALSO WORLDS AWAY FROM ITS GATES AND WHEN I WASN'T HAPPY DOING WHAT I WAS DOING, SHE WAS THE ONE WHO ENCOURAGED ME TO GO BACK TO MY FIRST LOVE, TEACHING AND COACHING. |
| 00:56:38 | AND TODAY -- I'M PROUD TO BE THE COACH OF THE OREGON STATE MEN'S BASKETBALL TEAM. |
| 00:56:47 | GOUGH BEAVERS! BUT SHE DID TAKE SOMETHING AWAY FROM THE FIRST LAW FIRM JOB. |
| 00:56:58 | A YOUNG LAWYER BY THE NAME OF BARACK OBAMA. |
| 00:57:03 | [CHEERS AND APPLAUSE] |
| 00:57:05 | NOW MY SISTER HAD GROWN UP HERE IN MY FATHER AND ME TALK ABOUT HOW YOU CAN JUDGE A PERSON'S CHARACTER BY WHAT TYPE OF SPORTSMAN THEY ARE. |
| 00:57:14 | SO SHE ASKED ME TO TAKE HER TO PLAY BASKETBALL. |
| 00:57:17 | A AND IF YOU'RE LOOKING FOR A POLITICAL ANALYSIS BASED ON HIS PLAYING, HERE IT IS. |
| 00:57:23 | HE'S CONFIDENT BUT NOT COCKY. |
| 00:57:24 | HE WILL TAKE THE SHOT IF HE'S OPEN, HE IS A TEAM PLAYER WHO IMPROVES THE PEOPLE AROUND HIM. |
| 00:57:31 | AND HE WON'T BACK DOWN FROM ANY CHALLENGE. |
| 00:57:38 | [CHEERS AND APPLAUSE] |
| 00:57:41 | TOGETHER, I HAVE WATCHED BARACK AND MICHELLE STRENGTHEN EACH OTHER. |
| 00:57:46 | I'VE WATCHED THEM. |
| 00:57:47 | A HOME FILLED WITH LOVE AND GROUNDED WITH FAITH. |
| 00:57:50 | DURING CHALLENGING TIMES, I HAVE WATCHED MICHELLE AND BARACK STAND BY EACH OTHER, AND I KNOW THEY WILL STAND BY YOU, THE AMERICAN PEOPLE NOW AND IN THE FUTURE. |
| 00:58:06 | [CHEERS AND APPLAUSE] |
| 00:58:08 | SO, PLEASE JOIN ME IN WELCOMING AND AN IMPASSIONED PUBLIC SERVANT, A LOVING DAUGHTER, WIFE, AND MOTHER, MY LITTLE SISTER AND OUR NATION'S NEXT FIRST LADY, MICHELLE OBAMA. |
| 00:58:28 | [CHEERS AND APPLAUSE] |
| 00:58:52 | (music)(music) (music)(music) [CHEERS AND APPLAUSE] |
| 00:59:08 | [CHEERS AND APPLAUSE] |
| 00:59:42 | [CHEERS AND APPLAUSE] |
| 00:59:43 | >> AS YOU MIGHT IMAGINE, FOUR BARACK RUNNING FOR PRESIDENT IS NOTHING COMPARED TO THAT FIRST GAME OF BASKETBALL WITH MY BROTHER. |
| 00:59:54 | I CAN'T TELL YOU HOW MUCH IT MEANS TO HAVE CRAIG AND MY MOM HERE TONIGHT. |
| 01:00:01 | LIKE REG I CAN FEEL MY DAD LOOKING DOWN ON US JUST AS I FELT HIS PRESENCE IN EVERY GRACE FILLED MOMENT OF MY LIFE. |
| 01:00:10 | AND AT 6 FEET SIX I'VE OFTEN FELT LIKE CRAIG WAS LOOKING DOWN ON ME LITERALLY. |
| 01:00:16 | [LAUGHTER] THE TRUTH IS WHEN WE WERE KIDS AND TODAY CRAIG WASN'T LOOKING DOWN ON ME, HE WAS WATCHING OVER ME. |
| 01:00:24 | AND HE HAS BEEN THERE FOR ME. |
| 01:00:29 | [CHEERS AND APPLAUSE] -- EVERY STEP OF THE WAY SINCE THAT CLEAR DAY OF FEBRUARY, 90 MONTHS AGO WITH LITTLE MORE THAN OUR FAITH IN EACH OTHER AND HUNGER FOR CHANGE, WE JOINED MY HUSBAND, BARACK OBAMA, ON THE IMPROBABLE JOURNEY THAT LED US TO THIS MOMENT BUT EACH OF US COMES HERE ALSO BY WAY OF OUR OWN IMPROBABLE JOURNEY. |
| 01:00:54 | I COME HERE TONIGHT AS A SISTER BLESSED WITH A BROTHER WHO IS MY MENTOR, PROTECTOR, AND MY LIFELONG FRIEND, AND I COME HERE AS A WIFE WHO LOVES MY HUSBAND AND BELIEVES HE WILL BE AN EXTRAORDINARY PRESIDENT. |
| 01:01:12 | [CHEERS AND APPLAUSE] |
| 01:01:17 | AND I COME HERE AS A MOM WHO SCROLLS OR THE HEART OF MY HEART AND CENTER OF MY WORLD. |
| 01:01:26 | THEY ARE THE FIRST THINGS I THINK ABOUT WHEN I WAKE UP IN THE MORNING AND LAST THING I THINK ABOUT BEFORE I GO TO BED AT NIGHT. |
| 01:01:34 | THEIR FUTURE AND ALL OUR CHILDREN'S FUTURE IS MY STAKE IN THIS ELECTION. |
| 01:01:38 | AND I COME HERE AS A DAUGHTER, RAISED ON THE SOUTH SIDE OF CHICAGO -- [CHEERS AND APPLAUSE] |
| 01:01:47 | -- BY A FATHER WHO WAS A BLUE-COLLAR CITY WORKER AND MOTHER WHO STAYED AT HOME WITH MY BROTHER AND ME. |
| 01:01:53 | MY MOTHER'S LOVE HAS ALWAYS BEEN A SUSTAINING FORCE FOR OUR FAMILY AND ONE OF MY GREATEST JOYS IS SEEING HER INTEGRITY, HER PASSION, HER INTELLIGENCE REFLECTED IN MY DAUGHTER'S. |
| 01:02:06 | MY DAD WAS OUR ROCK AND ALTHOUGH HE WAS DIAGNOSED WITH MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS IN HIS EARLY 30'S HE WAS OUR PROVIDER. |
| 01:02:16 | HE WAS OUR CHAMPION, OUR HERO. |
| 01:02:19 | BUT AS HE GOT MORE SEC IT GOT HARDER FOR HIM TO WALK. |
| 01:02:22 | IT TOOK HIM LONGER TO GET DRESSED IN THE MORNING. |
| 01:02:25 | YOU KNOW, BUT IF HE BOWS IN PAIN, HE NEVER LIED ON. |
| 01:02:30 | HE NEVER STOPPED SMILING AND LAUGHING EVEN WHILE STRUGGLING TO BUTTON HIS SHIRT. |
| 01:02:36 | EVEN WHILE USING TO CANNES TO GET HIMSELF ACROSS THE ROOM TO GIVE MY MOM A KISS, HE JUST WOKE UP A LITTLE EARLIER AND HE WORKED A LITTLE HARDER. |
| 01:02:45 | HE AND MY MOM POURED EVERYTHING THEY HAD IN TO ME AND CRAIG. |
| 01:02:50 | IT WAS THE GREATEST GIFT A CHILD COULD RECEIVE. |
| 01:02:54 | NEVER DOUBTING FOR A SINGLE MINUTE THAT YOUR LOVED AND CHERISHED AND HAVE A PLACE IN THIS WORLD. |
| 01:03:00 | AND THANKS TO THEIR FAITH AND HARD WORK WE BOTH WERE ABLE TO GO TO COLLEGE. |
| 01:03:05 | SO I KNOW FIRST HAND FROM THEIR LIVES AND MIND THAT THE AMERICAN DREAM AND -- ENDURES. |
| 01:03:19 | [CHEERS AND APPLAUSE] AND WHAT STRUCK ME WHEN I FIRST MET BARACK IS EVEN THOUGH HE HAD THIS FUNNY NAME AND EVEN THOUGH HE HAD GROWN UP ALL THE WAY ACROSS THE CONTINENT IN HAWAII, HIS FAMILY WAS SO MUCH LIKE MINE. |
| 01:03:32 | HE WAS RAISED BY GRANDPARENTS WORKING-CLASS FOLKS JUST LIKE MY PARENTS. |
| 01:03:37 | AND A SINGLE MOTHER WHO STRUGGLED TO PAY THE BILLS JUST LIKE WE DID. |
| 01:03:40 | AND LIKE MY FAMILY, THE SCRIMPED AND SAVED SO THAT HE COULD HAVE OPPORTUNITIES THAT THEY NEVER HAD FOR THEMSELVES. |
| 01:03:49 | AND BARACK AND I WERE RAISED WITH SO MANY OF THE VALUES LIKE YOU WORK HARD FOR WHAT YOU WANT IN LIFE. |
| 01:03:57 | THAT YOUR WORD IS YOUR BOND. |
| 01:04:00 | YOU SAY WHAT YOU'RE GOING TO DO. |
| 01:04:01 | THAT YOU TREAT PEOPLE -- [CHEERS AND APPLAUSE] |
| 01:04:05 | -- WITH DIGNITY AND RESPECT, EVEN IF YOU DON'T KNOW THEM, AND EVEN IF YOU DON'T AGREE WITH THEM. |
| 01:04:13 | [CHEERS AND APPLAUSE] |
| 01:04:15 | AND BARACK AND I SET OUT TO BUILD LIVES GUIDED BY THESE VALUES AND TO PASS THEM ON TO THE NEXT GENERATION BECAUSE WE WANT OUR CHILDREN AND ALL CHILDREN IN THIS NATION TO KNOW THAT THE ONLY LIMITED TO THE HEIGHT OF YOUR ACHIEVEMENTS IS THE REACH OF YOUR DREAMS AND WILLINGNESS TO WORK HARD FOR THEM. |
| 01:04:38 | [CHEERS AND APPLAUSE] |
| 01:04:39 | AND AS OUR FRIENDSHIP GREW AND I LEARNED MORE ABOUT BARACK, HE INTRODUCED ME TO WORK HE HAD DONE WHEN HE FIRST MOVED TO CHICAGO AFTER COLLEGE. |
| 01:04:49 | YOU SEE, INSTEAD OF GOING TO WALL STREET, BARACK WENT TO WORK IN NEIGHBORHOODS THAT HAD BEEN DEVASTATED BY THE CLOSING OF THE STEEL PLANTS. |
| 01:05:01 | JOBS DRIED UP AND BARACK WAS INVITED BACK TO SPEAK TO PEOPLE FROM THOSE NEIGHBORHOODS ABOUT HOW TO REBUILD THEIR COMMUNITY AND THE PEOPLE GATHERED THERE TOGETHER THAT DAY OR ORDINARY FOLKS DOING THE BEST THEY COULD TO BUILD A GOOD LIFE. |
| 01:05:17 | SEE, THEY WERE PARENTS TRYING TO GET BY FROM PAYCHECK TO PAYCHECK, GRANDPARENTS TRYING TO GET IT TOGETHER ON A FIXED INCOME. |
| 01:05:25 | MEN FRUSTRATED THAT THEY COULDN'T SUPPORT THEIR FAMILIES AFTER JOBS HAD DISAPPEARED. |
| 01:05:31 | THOSE FOLKS WERE NOT ASKING FOR A HANDOUT OR SHORTCUT. |
| 01:05:35 | THEY WERE READY TO WORK. |
| 01:05:37 | THEY WANTED TO CONTRIBUTE. |
| 01:05:39 | THEY BELIEVE LIKE YOU AND I AMERICA SHOULD BE A PLACE WHERE YOU CAN MAKE IT TO TRY. |
| 01:05:49 | [CHEERS AND APPLAUSE] |
| 01:05:52 | AND BARACK STOOD UP THAT DAY AND SPOKE WORDS THAT STAYED WITH ME EVER SINCE. |
| 01:05:58 | HE TALKED ABOUT THE WORLD AS IT IS AND THE WORLD AS IT SHOULD BE. |
| 01:06:02 | AND HE SAID ALL TOO OFTEN WE ACCEPT THE DISTANCE BETWEEN THE TWO AND WE SETTLE FOR THE WORLD AS IT IS EVEN MONEY DOESN'T REFLECT OUR VALUES AND ASPIRATIONS. |
| 01:06:15 | ABOUT HE REMINDED US THAT WE ALSO KNOW WHAT THE WORLD SHOULD LOOK LIKE. |
| 01:06:20 | HE SAID WE KNOW WHAT FAIRNESS AND JUSTICE AND OPPORTUNITY LOOK LIKE. |
| 01:06:26 | AND HE URGED US TO BELIEVE IN OURSELVES, TO FIND THE STRENGTH WITHIN OUR SELF TO STRIVE FOR THE WORLD AS IT SHOULD BE. |
| 01:06:35 | AND ISN'T THAT THEY'RE GREAT AMERICAN STORY? |
| 01:06:40 | [CHEERS AND APPLAUSE] |
| 01:06:41 | IT'S THE STORY OF MEN AND WOMEN GATHERED IN CHURCHES AND UNION HALLS AND HIGH SCHOOL GYMS AND PEOPLE WHO STOOD UP AND MARCHED AND RISKED EVERYTHING THEY HAD, REFUSING TO SETTLE, DETERMINED TO MOLD OUR FUTURE INTO THE SHAPE OF OUR IDEALS. |
| 01:06:58 | AND IT IS BECAUSE OF THEIR WILL AND DETERMINATION THAT THIS WEEK WE CELEBRATE TO ANNIVERSARIES. |
| 01:07:05 | THE 80TH ANNIVERSARY OF WOMEN EARNING THE RIGHT TO VOTE. |
| 01:07:11 | [CHEERS AND APPLAUSE] |
| 01:07:12 | AND 45TH ANNIVERSARY -- THE 45TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE HOT SUMMER DAY WHEN DR. |
| 01:07:21 | KING LIFTED OUR SITES AND HEARTS WITH HIS DREAM FOR OUR NATION [CHEERS AND APPLAUSE] |
| 01:07:31 | [CHEERS AND APPLAUSE] |
| 01:07:32 | AND I STAND HERE TODAY AT THE CROSSCURRENT OF THAT HISTORY, KNOWING THAT MY PIECE OF THE AMERICAN DREAM IS A BLESSING HARD-WON BY PEOPLE WHO CAN BE FOR ME. |
| 01:07:44 | ALL OF THEM DRIVEN BY THE SAME CONVICTION THAT DROVE MY DAD TO GET UP ONE HOUR EARLY EACH DAY TO PAINSTAKINGLY DRESS HIMSELF FOR WORK TO BE THE SAME CONVICTION THAT DRIVES THE MEN AND WOMEN I'VE MET ALL ACROSS THIS COUNTRY. |
| 01:07:58 | PEOPLE WHO WORK THE DAY SHIFT AND THEN KISS THEIR KIDS GOOD NIGHT AND HEAD OUT FOR THE NIGHT SHIFT WITHOUT DISAPPOINTMENT, WITHOUT REGRET. |
| 01:08:07 | SEE THAT GOOD NIGHT KISS IS A REMINDER OF EVERYTHING THEY ARE WORKING FOR. |
| 01:08:12 | THE MILITARY FAMILIES WHO SAY GRACE EACH NIGHT WITH AN EMPTY SEAT AT THE TABLE. |
| 01:08:18 | [CHEERS AND APPLAUSE] |
| 01:08:20 | THE SERVICE MEN -- [CHEERS AND APPLAUSE] |
| 01:08:26 | -- THE SERVICE MEN AND WOMEN WHO LOVE THIS COUNTRY SO MUCH THEY LEAVE THOSE THEY LEFT MOST TO DEFEND IT. |
| 01:08:31 | THE YOUNG PEOPLE ACROSS AMERICA, SERVING OUR COMMUNITY, TEACHING CHILDREN, CLEANING UP NEIGHBORHOODS, CARING FOR THE LEAST AMONG US EACH AND EVERY DAY. |
| 01:08:42 | PEOPLE LIKE HILLARY CLINTON -- [CHEERS AND APPLAUSE] |
| 01:08:56 | -- WHO PUT THOSE 18 MILLION CRACKS IN THE GLASS CEILING SO THAT OUR DAUGHTERS AND OUR SONS CAN DREAM A LITTLE BIGGER AND AIMED A LITTLE HIGHER. |
| 01:09:05 | PEOPLE LIKE JOE BIDEN -- [CHEERS AND APPLAUSE] |
| 01:09:10 | -- WHO HAS NEVER FORGOTTEN WHERE HE CAME FROM AND NEVER STOPPED FIGHTING FOR FOLKS WHO WORK LONG HOURS AND FACE LONG ODDS AND NEED SOMEONE ON THEIR SIDE AGAIN. |
| 01:09:20 | ALL OF US DRIVEN BY THE SIMPLE BELIEF THAT THE WORLD AS IT IS JUST WON'T DO. |
| 01:09:26 | THAT WE HAVE AN OBLIGATION TO FIGHT FOR THE WORLD AS IT SHOULD BE. |
| 01:09:30 | AND THAT IS THE THREAD THAT CONNECTS OUR HEART. |
| 01:09:34 | THAT IS THE THREAD THAT RUNS THROUGH MY JOURNEY AND BARACK'S JOURNEY AND SO MANY OTHER IMPROBABLE JOURNEYS THAT HAVE BROUGHT US HERE TONIGHT WITH THE CURRENT HISTORY MEETS THIS NEW TYPE OF HOPE. |
| 01:09:49 | AND, YOU SEE, THAT IS WHY I LOVE THIS COUNTRY. |
| 01:09:55 | [CHEERS AND APPLAUSE] |
| 01:10:10 | AND IN MY OWN LIFE -- IN MY OWN LIFE, IN MY OWN SMALL WAY I HAVE TRIED TO GIVE BACK TO THIS COUNTRY THAT HAS GIVEN ME SO MUCH. |
| 01:10:20 | SEE, THAT IS WHY I LEFT A JOB AT A BIG LAW FIRM FOR A CAREER IN PUBLIC SERVICE, WORKING TO EMPOWER YOUNG PEOPLE TO VOLUNTEER IN THEIR COMMUNITIES. |
| 01:10:30 | BECAUSE I BELIEVE THAT EACH OF US, NO MATTER WHAT OUR AGE OR BACKGROUND OR WALK IN LIFE, EACH OF US HAS SOMETHING TO CONTRIBUTE TO THE LIFE OF THIS NATION. |
| 01:10:40 | AND IT'S A BELIEF THAT BARACK OBAMA SHARES. |
| 01:10:43 | A BELIEF AT THE HEART OF HIS LIFE'S WORK. |
| 01:10:46 | SEE, IT IS WHAT HE DID ALL THOSE YEARS AGO IN CHICAGO. |
| 01:10:50 | SETTING UP JOB TRAINING TO GET PEOPLE BACK TO WORK AND AFTER-SCHOOL PROGRAMS TO KEEP KIDS SAFE. |
| 01:10:55 | WORKING BLOG BY BLOG TO HELP PEOPLE LIFT UP THEIR FAMILIES. |
| 01:10:59 | IT IS WHAT HE DID IN THE ILLINOIS SENATE MOVING PEOPLE FROM WELFARE TO JOBS, PASSING TAX CUTS FOR HARD-WORKING FAMILIES AND MAKING SURE WOMEN GET EQUAL PAY FOR EQUAL WORK. |
| 01:11:16 | [CHEERS AND APPLAUSE] |
| 01:11:17 | IT'S WHAT HE HAS DONE IN THE UNITED STATES SENATE, FIGHTING TO ENSURE THAT THE MEN AND WOMEN WHO SERVE THIS COUNTRY ARE WELCOMED HOME NOT JUST WITH METALS AND PARADES, BUT WITH GOOD JOBS AND BENEFITS AND HEALTH CARE INCLUDING MENTAL HEALTH CARE. |
| 01:11:36 | [CHEERS AND APPLAUSE] |
| 01:11:41 | MINCY, THAT IS WHY BARACK IS RUNNING, TO END THE WAR IN IRAQ RESPONSIBLY. |
| 01:11:47 | [CHEERS AND APPLAUSE] |
| 01:11:48 | TO BUILD AN ECONOMY THAT LIVES EVERY FAMILY, TO MAKE SURE HEALTH CARE IS AVAILABLE FOR EVERY AMERICAN AND TO MAKE SURE EVERY SINGLE CHILD IN THIS NATION HAS A WORLD-CLASS EDUCATION ALL THE WAY FROM PRESCHOOL TO COLLEGE. |
| 01:12:07 | [CHEERS AND APPLAUSE] |
| 01:12:09 | THAT'S WHAT BARACK OBAMA WILL DO AS PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. |
| 01:12:21 | HE WILL ACHIEVE THESE GOALS THE WAY HE ALWAYS HAS BY BRINGING US TOGETHER AND REMINDING US OF HOW MUCH WE SHARE AND HOW ALIKE WE ARE. |
| 01:12:33 | YOU SEE, BARACK DOESN'T CARE WHERE YOUR FROM OR WHAT YOUR BACKGROUND IS OR WHAT PART YOU BELONG TO. |
| 01:12:40 | THAT IS NOT HOW HE SEES THE WORLD. |
| 01:12:44 | HE KNOWS THE THREAT THAT CONNECT SAUCE. |
| 01:12:46 | OUR BELIEVE IN AMERICA'S PROMISE. |
| 01:12:49 | OUR COMMITMENT TO OUR CHILDREN'S FUTURE, HE KNOWS THE THREAT IS STRONG ENOUGH TO HOLD US TOGETHER AS ONE NATION EVEN WHEN WE DISAGREE. |
| 01:12:59 | IT WAS STRONG ENOUGH TO BRING HOPE TO THOSE NEIGHBORHOODS IN CHICAGO. |
| 01:13:04 | IT WAS STRONG ENOUGH TO BRING HOPE TO THE MOTHER HE MET WHO WAS WORRIED ABOUT HER CHILD IN IRAQ. |
| 01:13:11 | POPE TO THE MAN WHO IS UNEMPLOYED AND CAN'T AFFORD GAS TO FIND A JOB. |
| 01:13:17 | HOPE TO THE STUDENT WORKING NIGHTS TO PAY FOR HIS SISTERS HEALTH CARE SLEEPING JUST A FEW HOURS A DAY AND STRONG ENOUGH TO BRING HOPE TO PEOPLE WHO CAME OUT ON THE COLD ON THE ONE NIGHT AND BECAME THE FIRST FOUR RACES IN THIS COURSE FOR CHANGE THAT HAS BEEN ECHOED BY MILLIONS OF AMERICANS FROM EVERY CORNER OF THIS NATION [CHEERS AND [CHEERS AND APPLAUSE] |
| 01:13:44 | AMERICANS WHO KNOW BARACK OBAMA UNDERSTANDS THEIR DREAMS. |
| 01:13:47 | MILLIONS WHO KNOW THAT BARACK OBAMA WILL FIGHT FOR PEOPLE LIKE THEM AND THAT BARACK WILL BRING FINALLY THE CHANGE THAT WE NEED. |
| 01:13:57 | [CHEERS AND APPLAUSE] |
| 01:13:59 | AND IN THE END, AND IN THE END, AFTER ALL OF THAT HAS HAPPENED THESE PAST 19 MONTHS, THE BARACK OBAMA THAT I KNOW TODAY IS THE SAME MAN I FELL IN LOVE WITH 19 YEARS AGO. |
| 01:14:14 | [CHEERS AND APPLAUSE] |
| 01:14:15 | HE IS THE SAME MAN WHO DROVE ME AND OUR NEW BABY DAUGHTER HOME FROM THE HOSPITAL TEN YEARS AGO THIS SUMMER INCHING ALONG AT A SNAIL'S PACE PEERING OUT US ANXIOUSLY THROUGH THE REARVIEW MIRROR, FEELING THE WHOLE WEIGHT OF HER FUTURE IN HIS HANDS, DETERMINED TO GIVE HER EVERYTHING HE STRUGGLES SO HARD FOR HIMSELF. |
| 01:14:41 | DETERMINED TO GIVE HER SOMETHING HE NEVER HAD, THE AFFIRMING EMBRACE OF A FATHER'S LOVE. |
| 01:14:52 | [CHEERS AND APPLAUSE] |
| 01:14:53 | AND AS I TOOK THAT LITTLE GIRL IN, AS I TALKED HER INTO BED EVERY NIGHT, YOU SEE, I THINK ABOUT HOW ONE DAY THEY WILL HAVE FAMILIES OF THEIR OWN AND HOW ONE DAY THEY AND YOUR SONS AND DAUGHTERS WILL TELL THEIR OWN CHILDREN ABOUT WHAT WE DID TOGETHER IN THIS ELECTION. |
| 01:15:17 | [CHEERS AND APPLAUSE] |
| 01:15:18 | THEY WILL TELL THEM -- THEY WILL TELL THEM HOW THIS TIME WE LISTENED TO OUR HOPES INSTEAD OF OUR FIERCE. |
| 01:15:28 | [CHEERS AND APPLAUSE] HOW THIS TIME -- HOW THIS TIME WE DECIDED TO STOP DOUBTING AND START DREAMING. |
| 01:15:37 | [CHEERS AND APPLAUSE] |
| 01:15:38 | HELD THIS TIME IN THIS GREAT COUNTRY WHERE A GIRL FROM THE SOUTH SIDE CHICAGO CAN GO TO COLLEGE AND LAW SCHOOL AND THE SON OF A SINGLE MOTHER FROM HAWAII CAN GO ALL THE WAY TO THE WHITE HOUSE. |
| 01:15:50 | [CHEERS AND APPLAUSE] |
| 01:15:52 | THAT WE COMMITTED OURSELVES. |
| 01:15:56 | WE COMMITTED OURSELVES TO BUILDING THE WORLD AS IT SHOULD BE. |
| 01:16:00 | SO TONIGHT, IN HONOR OF MY FATHER'S MEMORY, AND MY DAUGHTER'S FUTURE, OUT OF THE GRATITUDE FOR THOSE WHOSE TRIUMPH WE MARK THIS WEEK AND THOSE WHOSE EVERYDAY SACRIFICE HAS BROUGHT US TO THIS MOMENT, LET US DEVOTE OURSELVES TO FINISHING THEIR WORK. |
| 01:16:19 | LET US WORK TOGETHER TO FULFILL THEIR HOPE AND LET STAND TOGETHER TO ELECT BARACK OBAMA PRESIDENT OF THE HE MIGHT TO THE STATES OF AMERICA. |
| 01:16:30 | [CHEERS AND APPLAUSE] |
| 01:16:31 | THANK YOU. GOD BLESS YOU AND GOD BLESS AMERICA. |
| 01:16:39 | [CHEERS AND APPLAUSE] |
| 01:16:49 | [CHEERS AND APPLAUSE] |
| 01:17:22 | (music)(music) (music)(music) (music)(music) (music)(music) (music) ISN'T SHE LOVELY (music) (music) ISN'T SHE WONDERFUL (music) (music) (music) (music) ISN'T SHE LOVELY (music) (music)(music) (music)(music) [CHEERS AND APPLAUSE] |
| 01:18:27 | >> HI, DADDY. |
| 01:18:28 | >> HELLO EVERYBODY AND WELCOME. |
| 01:18:29 | HOW ABOUT MICHELLE OBAMA? |
| 01:18:37 | [CHEERS AND APPLAUSE] |
| 01:18:40 | NOW YOU KNOW WHY I ASKED HER OUT SO MANY TIMES. |
| 01:18:44 | [LAUGHTER] EVEN THOUGH SHE SAID NO. |
| 01:18:48 | YOU WANT A PERSISTENT PRESIDENT. |
| 01:18:55 | [LAUGHTER] [CHEERS AND APPLAUSE] |
| 01:19:02 | MICHELLE -- >> HI, DADDY >> -- YOU ARE UNBELIEVABLE. |
| 01:19:07 | AND ALSO LOOK VERY CUTE. |
| 01:19:10 | >> THANK YOU. |
| 01:19:14 | >> THANK YOU. |
| 01:19:15 | >> THAT'S SASHA. |
| 01:19:16 | >> I'M HERE WITH THE GERARDO FAMILY. |
| 01:19:25 | >> HI, GERARDO FAMILY. |
| 01:19:29 | [LAUGHTER] >> WE HAVE GOT LINDSEY AND WE HAVE GOT HANNA AND GRACE OVER HERE AND THEY HAVE JUST BEEN WONDERFUL HOSTS THE WHOLE TIME THAT WE HAVE BEEN WATCHING. |
| 01:19:44 | [CHEERS AND APPLAUSE] |
| 01:19:45 | >> DADDY, WHAT CITY ARE YOU IN >> I'M IN KANSAS, SWEEP. |
| 01:19:53 | HOW DO YOU THINK YOUR MOM DID? |
| 01:19:56 | >> I THINK SHE DID GOOD. |
| 01:20:01 | [LAUGHTER] >> I THINK SO TOO. |
| 01:20:04 | WELL, LISTEN, I WANT YOU GUYS TO LOOK AFTER MOMMY BEFORE I GET THERE AND I WILL SEE YOU GUYS ON THURSDAY, ALL RIGHT? |
| 01:20:14 | >> I LOVE YOU, DADDY. |
| 01:20:18 | >> LOVE YOU GUYS. |
| 01:20:26 | >> LOVE YOU. |
| 01:20:28 | [CHEERS AND APPLAUSE] |
| 01:20:54 | (music)(music) (music)(music) >> MICHELLE OBAMA SPEECH BEFORE THE DEMOCRATIC NATIONAL CONVENTION IN DENVER TONIGHT. |
| 01:21:01 | THAT WRAPS UP HOUR PROGRAMMING HERE ON C-SPAN2. |
| 01:21:03 | IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO HAVE SOME MORE OPEN PHONES AND DISCUSS THE SPEECH BY MICHELLE OBAMA, PLEASE GO TO OUR SISTER NETWORK WHICH LATER WILL HAVE PHONES TO DISCUSS ALL OF THOSE THINGS. |
| 01:21:15 | COMING UP TOMORROW HERE ON C-SPAN2, WE ARE GOING TO BRING YOU LIVE COVERAGE OF SENATOR JOHN McCAIN'S SPEECH BEFORE THE AMERICAN LEGION'S 90TH ANNUAL CONVENTION IN PHOENIX ARIZONA. |
| 01:21:29 | THAT'S GOING TO BE LIVE AT 11:30 EASTERN ON C-SPAN2 AND THEN TOMORROW AND WEDNESDAY, THE REPUBLICAN PLATFORM COMMITTEE MEETINGS ARE GOING ON IN ST. |
| 01:21:37 | PAUL, MINNESOTA. |
| 01:21:39 | THEY'RE GOING TO OUTLINE THE PRINCIPALS IN A VARIETY OF ISSUES. |
| 01:21:42 | WE WILL HAVE LIVE COVERAGE ON THAT, 3:30 P. |
| 01:21:47 | M. EASTERN TIME, AND THEN ON WEDNESDAY AT 9 A. |
| 01:21:51 | M. EASTERN TIME. |
| 01:21:54 | AGAIN, BOTH HERE ON C-SPAN2. |
| 01:21:55 | ON C-SPAN TOMORROW MORNING WE WILL HAVE LIVE COVERAGE AT 10:30 A. |
| 01:22:00 | M. EASTERN TIME OF PROGRAMMING CALLED CONVENTION CONVERSATIONS, WHERE THE SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE WILL BE INVOLVED AND SPONSORED BY POLITICO, YAHOO!, AND THE DENVER POST. |
| 01:22:11 | AGAIN, THAT IS COMING UP AT 10: 30 LIVE TOMORROW MORNING AND THEN ON THE WASHINGTON JOURNAL TOMORROW MORNING, LIVE FROM DENVER WE WILL HAVE REPRESENTATIVES OF THE COLORADO DELEGATION AND CALIFORNIA DELEGATION. |
| 01:22:24 | ALSO A MEMBER OF THE DEMOCRATIC NATIONAL CONVENTION PLATFORM COMMITTEE AND ALSO THE CHAIRMAN OF THE PARLIAMENT OF GEORGIA WHO IS AT THE CONVENTIONS ALL OF THAT COMING UP TOMORROW. |
| 01:22:38 | WELL, THANK YOU FOR JOINING US TONIGHT AND WE WILL BE BACK AGAIN 8 P. |
| 01:22:47 | M. EASTERN TOMORROW EVENING. |
| 01:22:59 | (music)(music) [CHEERS AND |
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