【正文】 that at the heart of the matter we are bound one to another, that the problems of a retired school teacher in Duluth are our problems。 that the failure anywhere to provide what reasonably we might, to avoid pain, is our failure. Now for 50 years for 50 years we Democrats created a better future for our children, using traditional Democratic principles as a fixed beacon, giving us direction and purpose, but constantly innovating, adapting to new realities: Roosevelt39。 Kennedy39。 Carter39。 that they gave us a chance to work, to go to college, to raise a family, to own a house, to be secure in our old age and, before that, to reach heights that our own parents would not have dared dream of. That struggle to live with dignity is the real story of the shining city. And it39。s first woman Vice President, the child of immigrants, and she she she will open with one magnificent stroke, a whole new frontier for the United States. Now, it will happen. It will happen if we make it happen。t read in a book, or learn in a classroom. I saw it and lived it, like many of you. I watched a small man with thick calluses on both his hands work 15 and 16 hours a day. I saw him once literally bleed from the bottoms of his feet, a man who came here uneducated, alone, unable to speak the language, who taught me all I needed to know about faith and hard work by the simple eloquence of his example. I learned about our kind of democracy from my father. And, I learned about our obligation to each other from him and from my mother. They asked only for a chance to work and to make the world better for their children, and they they asked to be protected in those moments when they would not be able to protect themselves. This nation and this nation39。s family contributing, building partnerships with the private sector, providing a sound defense without depriving ourselves of what we need to feed our children and care for our people. We can have a future that provides for all the young of the present, by marrying mon sense and passion. We know we can, because we did it for nearly 50 years before 1980. And we can do it again, if we do not fet if we do not fet that this entire nation has profited by these progressive principles。 Johnson39。 Truman39。 that the struggle of a disabled man in Boston to survive, and live decently, is our struggle。s history, one that can spend trillions on instruments of destruction, ought to be able to help the middle class in its struggle, ought to be able to find work for all who can do it, room at the table, shelter for the homeless, care for the elderly and infirm, and hope for the destitute. And we proclaim as loudly as we can the utter insanity of nuclear proliferation and the need for a nuclear freeze, if only to affirm the simple truth that peace is better than war because life is better than death. We believe in firm We believe in firm but fair law and order. We believe proudly in the union movement. We believe We believe in privacy for people, openness by government. We believe in civil rights, and we believe in human rights. We believe in a single We believe in a single fundamental idea that describes better than most textbooks and any speech that I could write what a proper government should be: the idea of family, mutuality, the sharing of benefits and burdens for the good of all, feeling one another39。t distort or promise to do things that we know we can39。 the man who believes that trees pollute the environment。s amiability and the failure by some to separate the salesman from the product. And, now now now it39。 by the loss of 279 young Americans in Lebanon in pursuit of a plan and a policy that no one can find or describe. We give money to Latin American governments that murder nuns, and then we lie about it. We have been less than zealous in support of our only real friend it seems to me, in the Middle East the one democracy there, our flesh and blood ally, the state of Israel. Our Our policy Our foreign policy drifts with no real direction, other than an hysterical mitment to an arms race that leads nowhere if we39。ll learn from them, what they predict for the inflation rate a year from now, because of the deficit. Now, how important is this question of the deficit. Think about it practically: What chance would the Republican candidate have had in 1980 if he had told the American people that he intended to pay for his socalled economic recovery with bankruptcies, unemployment, more homeless, more hungry, and the largest government debt known to humankind? If he had told the voters in 1980 that truth, would American voters have signed the loan certificate for him on Election Day? Of course not! That was an election won under false pretenses. It was won with smoke and mirror