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   From: Art@Arthurian.com   
      
   "Obamas Energy Plan - Fill Your Tires"    
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   news:70710dd7-cbed-40c3-a3b4-469c8f215f14@b1g2000hsg.googlegroups.com...   
   > If Obama pulls off a win in November, you will be seeing a whole lot   
   > of this:   
      
   You don't have to wait till election to find idiots who post garbage   
   like that.   
      
   Try reading and comprehending-   
      
   Remarks of Senator Barack Obama: The American Promise (Democratic   
   Convention   
   Denver, CO | August 28, 2008   
      
      
   To Chairman Dean and my great friend Dick Durbin; and to all my fellow   
   citizens of this great nation;   
      
      
   With profound gratitude and great humility, I accept your nomination   
   for the presidency of the United States.   
      
      
   Let me express my thanks to the historic slate of candidates who   
   accompanied me on this journey, and especially the one who traveled   
   the farthest - a champion for working Americans and an inspiration to   
   my daughters and to yours -- Hillary Rodham Clinton. To President   
   Clinton, who last night made the case for change as only he can make   
   it; to Ted Kennedy, who embodies the spirit of service; and to the   
   next Vice President of the United States, Joe Biden, I thank you. I am   
   grateful to finish this journey with one of the finest statesmen of   
   our time, a man at ease with everyone from world leaders to the   
   conductors on the Amtrak train he still takes home every night.   
      
      
   To the love of my life, our next First Lady, Michelle Obama, and to   
   Sasha and Malia - I love you so much, and I'm so proud of all of you.   
      
      
   Four years ago, I stood before you and told you my story - of the   
   brief union between a young man from Kenya and a young woman from   
   Kansas who weren't well-off or well-known, but shared a belief that in   
   America, their son could achieve whatever he put his mind to.   
      
      
   It is that promise that has always set this country apart - that   
   through hard work and sacrifice, each of us can pursue our individual   
   dreams but still come together as one American family, to ensure that   
   the next generation can pursue their dreams as well.   
      
      
   That's why I stand here tonight. Because for two hundred and thirty   
   two years, at each moment when that promise was in jeopardy, ordinary   
   men and women - students and soldiers, farmers and teachers, nurses   
   and janitors -- found the courage to keep it alive.   
      
      
   We meet at one of those defining moments - a moment when our nation is   
   at war, our economy is in turmoil, and the American promise has been   
   threatened once more.   
      
      
   Tonight, more Americans are out of work and more are working harder   
   for less. More of you have lost your homes and even more are watching   
   your home values plummet. More of you have cars you can't afford to   
   drive, credit card bills you can't afford to pay, and tuition that's   
   beyond your reach.   
      
      
   These challenges are not all of government's making. But the failure   
   to respond is a direct result of a broken politics in Washington and   
   the failed policies of George W. Bush.   
      
      
   America, we are better than these last eight years. We are a better   
   country than this.   
      
      
   This country is more decent than one where a woman in Ohio, on the   
   brink of retirement, finds herself one illness away from disaster   
   after a lifetime of hard work.   
      
      
   This country is more generous than one where a man in Indiana has to   
   pack up the equipment he's worked on for twenty years and watch it   
   shipped off to China, and then chokes up as he explains how he felt   
   like a failure when he went home to tell his family the news.   
      
      
   We are more compassionate than a government that lets veterans sleep   
   on our streets and families slide into poverty; that sits on its hands   
   while a major American city drowns before our eyes.   
      
      
   Tonight, I say to the American people, to Democrats and Republicans   
   and Independents across this great land - enough! This moment - this   
   election - is our chance to keep, in the 21st century, the American   
   promise alive. Because next week, in Minnesota, the same party that   
   brought you two terms of George Bush and Dick Cheney will ask this   
   country for a third. And we are here because we love this country too   
   much to let the next four years look like the last eight. On November   
   4th, we must stand up and say: "Eight is enough."   
      
      
   Now let there be no doubt. The Republican nominee, John McCain, has   
   worn the uniform of our country with bravery and distinction, and for   
   that we owe him our gratitude and respect. And next week, we'll also   
   hear about those occasions when he's broken with his party as evidence   
   that he can deliver the change that we need.   
      
      
   But the record's clear: John McCain has voted with George Bush ninety   
   percent of the time. Senator McCain likes to talk about judgment, but   
   really, what does it say about your judgment when you think George   
   Bush has been right more than ninety percent of the time? I don't know   
   about you, but I'm not ready to take a ten percent chance on change.   
      
      
   The truth is, on issue after issue that would make a difference in   
   your lives - on health care and education and the economy - Senator   
   McCain has been anything but independent. He said that our economy has   
   made "great progress" under this President. He said that the   
   fundamentals of the economy are strong. And when one of his chief   
   advisors - the man who wrote his economic plan - was talking about the   
   anxiety Americans are feeling, he said that we were just suffering   
   from a "mental recession," and that we've become, and I quote, "a   
   nation of whiners."   
      
   A nation of whiners? Tell that to the proud auto workers at a Michigan   
   plant who, after they found out it was closing, kept showing up every   
   day and working as hard as ever, because they knew there were people   
   who counted on the brakes that they made. Tell that to the military   
   families who shoulder their burdens silently as they watch their loved   
   ones leave for their third or fourth or fifth tour of duty. These are   
   not whiners. They work hard and give back and keep going without   
   complaint. These are the Americans that I know.   
      
      
   Now, I don't believe that Senator McCain doesn't care what's going on   
   in the lives of Americans. I just think he doesn't know. Why else   
   would he define middle-class as someone making under five million   
   dollars a year? How else could he propose hundreds of billions in tax   
   breaks for big corporations and oil companies but not one penny of tax   
   relief to more than one hundred million Americans? How else could he   
   offer a health care plan that would actually tax people's benefits, or   
   an education plan that would do nothing to help families pay for   
      
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