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at tomorrow will bring are the greatest of our lifetimetwo wars, a planet in peril, the worst financial crisis in a as we stand here tonight, we know there are brave Americans waking up in the deserts of Iraq and the mountains of Afghanistan to risk their lives for are mothers and fathers who will lie awake after the children fall asleep and wonder how they39。ll make the mortgage or pay their doctors39。 bills or save enough for their child39。s college 39。s new energy to harness, new jobs to be created, new schools to build, and threats to meet, alliances to road ahead will be climb will be may not get there in one year or even in one , America, I have never been more hopeful than I am tonight that we will get promise you, we as a people will get will be setbacks and false are many who won39。t agree with every decision or policy I make as we know the government can39。t solve 2 every I will always be honest with you about the challenges we will listen to you, especially when we , above all, I will ask you to join in the work of remaking this nation, the only way it39。s been done in America for 221 yearsblock by block, brick by brick, calloused hand by calloused began 21 months ago in the depths of winter cannot end on this autumn victory alone is not the change we is only the chance for us to make that that cannot happen if we go back to the way things can39。t happen without you, without a new spirit of service, a new spirit of let us summon a new spirit of patriotism, of responsibility, where each of us resolves to pitch in and work harder and look after not only ourselves but each us remember that, if this financial crisis taught us anything, it39。s that we cannot have a thriving Wall Street while Main Street this country, we rise or fall as one nation, as one 39。s resist the temptation to fall back on the same partisanship and pettiness and immaturity that has poisoned our politics for so 39。s remember that it was a man from this state who first carried the banner of the Republican Party to the White House, a party founded on the values of selfreliance and individual liberty and national are values that we all while the Democratic Party has won a great victory tonight, we do so with a measure of humility and determination to heal the divides that have held back our Lincoln said to a nation far more divided than ours, we are not enemies but passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of to those Americans whose support I have yet to earn, I may not have won your vote tonight, but I hear your need your I will be your president, to all those watching tonight from beyond our shores, from parliaments and palaces, to those who are huddled around radios in the forgotten corners of the world, our stories are singular, but our destiny is shared, and a new dawn of American leadership is at handTo thoseto those who would tear the world down: We will defeat those who seek peace and security: We support to all those who have wondered if America39。s beacon still burns as bright: Tonight we proved once more that the true strength of our nation es not from the might of our arms or the scale of our wealth, but from the enduring power of our ideals: democracy, liberty, opportunity and unyielding That39。s the true genius of America: that America can union can be we39。ve already achieved gives us hope for what we can and must achieve election had many firsts and many stories that will be told for one that39。s on my mind tonight39。s about a woman who cast her ballot in 39。s a lot like the millions of others who stood in line to make their voice heard in this election except for one thing: Ann Nixon Cooper is 106 years was born just a generation past slavery。a time when there were no cars on the road or planes in the sky。when someone like her couldn39。t vote for two reasonsbecause she was a woman and because of the color of her tonight, I think about all that she39。s seen throughout her century in Americathe heartache and the hope。the struggle and the progress。the times we were told that we can39。t, and the people who pressed on with that American creed: Yes we a time when women39。s voices were silenced and their hopes dismissed, she lived to see them stand up and speak out and reach for the we there was despair in the dust bowl and depression across the land, she saw a nation conquer fear itself with a New Deal, new jobs, a new sense of mon we the bombs fell on our harbor and tyranny threatened the world, she was there to witness a generation rise to greatness and a democracy was we was there for the buses in Montgomery, the hoses in Birmingham, a bridge in Selma, and a preacher from Atlanta who told a people that “We Shall Overe.” Yes we man touched down on the moon, a wall came down in Berlin, a world was connected by our own science and this year, in this election, she touched her finger to a screen, and cast her vote, because after 106 years in America, through the best of times and the darkest of hours, she knows how America can change.。Yes we , we have e so have seen so there is so much more to tonight, let us ask ourselvesif our children should live to see the next century。if my daughters should be so lucky to live as long as Ann Nixon Cooper, what change will they see? What progress will we have made?This is our chance to answer that is our is our time, to put our people back to work and open doors of opportunity for our kids。to restore prosperity and promote the cause of peace。to reclaim the American dream and reaffirm that fundamental truth, that, out of many, we are one。that while we breathe, we where we are met with cynicism and doubts and 4 those who tell us that we can39。t, we will respond with that timeless creed that sums up the spirit of a people: Yes, we bless may God bless the United States of ,對于這一點如果還有任何人心存懷疑,對民主的力量還表示疑慮的話,今晚就是對這一問題的最好回答。這個答案早已經(jīng)印在了到處懸掛在學校和教堂的競選條幅上,人們隨處可見。這些人們已經(jīng)等待了三四個小時,對于他們當中的大多數(shù),這是有生以來第一次經(jīng)歷這樣的過程,因為他們堅信這一時刻注定與眾