【文章內(nèi)容簡介】 lect of the United States, Joe I would not be standing here tonight without the unyielding support of my best friend for the last 16 years the rock of our family, the love of my life, the nation39。s next first lady Michelle and Malia I love you both more than you can you have earned the new puppy that39。s ing with us to the new White while she39。s no longer with us, I know my grandmother39。s watching, along with the family that made me who I miss them know that my debt to them is beyond my sister Maya, my sister Alma, all my other brothers and sisters, thank you so much for all the support that you39。ve given am grateful to to my campaign manager, David Plouffe, the unsung hero of this campaign, who built the best —— the best political campaign, I think, in the history of the United States of my chief strategist David Axelrod who39。s been a partner with me every step of the the best campaign team ever assembled in the history of politics you made this happen, and I am forever grateful for what you39。ve sacrificed to get it above all, I will never forget who this victory truly belongs belongs to belongs to was never the likeliest candidate for this didn39。t start with much money or many campaign was not hatched in the halls of began in the backyards of Des Moines and the living rooms of Concord and the front porches of was built by working men and women who dug into what little savings they had to give $5 and $10 and $20 to the grew strength from the young people who rejected the myth of their generation39。s apathy who left their homes and their families for jobs that offered little pay and less drew strength from the notsoyoung people who braved the bitter cold and scorching heat to knock on doors of perfect strangers, and from the millions of Americans who volunteered and organized and proved that more than two centuries later a government of the people, by the people, and for the people has not perished from the is your I know you didn39。t do this just to win an I know you didn39。t do it for did it because you understand the enormity of the task that lies even as we celebrate tonight, we know the challenges that tomorrow will bring are the greatest of our lifetime —— two 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 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 years —— block 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 those —— to 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 39。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 reasons ——