【文章內(nèi)容簡(jiǎn)介】 t the challenges that we face as a are choosing hope over 39。re choosing unity over division, and sending a powerful message that change is ing to said the time has e to tell the lobbyists who think their money and their influence speak louder than our voices that they don39。t own this government, we do。and we are here to take it time has e for a President who will be honest about the choices and the challenges we face。who will listen to you and learn from you even when we disagree。who won39。t just tell you what you want to hear, but what you need to in New Hampshire, if you give me the same chance that Iowa did tonight, I will be that president for 39。ll be a President who finally makes health care affordable and available to every single American the same way I expanded health care in Illinoisthat in the face of impossible odds, people who love this country can change know thisI know this because while I may be standing here tonight, I39。ll never forget that my journey began on the streets of Chicago doing what so many of you have done for this campaign and all the campaigns here in Iowaa nighta night that, years from now, when we39。ve made the changes we believe in。when more families can afford to see a doctor。when our childrenwhen Malia and Sasha and your childreninherit a planet that39。s a little cleaner and safer。when the world sees America differently, and America sees itself as a nation less divided and more united。you39。ll be able to look back with pride and say that this was the moment when it all was the moment when the improbable beat what Washington always said was was the moment when we tore down barriers that have divided us for too longthis was the placewith a father from Kenya。a mother from Kansas。and a story that could only happen in the United States of is the bedrock of this nation。the belief that our destiny will not be written for us, but by us。by all those men and women who are not content to settle for the world as it is。who have the courage to remake the world as it should is what we started here in Iowa, and that is the message we can now carry to New Hampshire and beyond。the same message we had when we were up and when we were down。the one that can change this country brick by brick, block by block, calloused hand by calloused handa champion for working Americans and an inspiration to my daughters and to yoursHillary Rodham 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 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 the love of my life, our next First Lady, Michelle Obama, and to Sasha and Maliaof the brief union between a young man from Kenya and a young woman from Kansas who weren39。t welloff or wellknown, but shared a belief that in America, their son could achieve whatever he put his mind is that promise that has always set this country apartstudents and soldiers, farmers and teachers, nurses and janitorsfound the courage to keep it meet at one of those defining momentsenough!This momentis our chance to keep, in the 21st century, the American promise next week, in Minnesota, the same party that brought you two terms of George Bush and Dick Cheney will ask this country for a we are here because we love this country too much to let the next four years look like the last November 4th, we must stand up and say: “Eight is enough.”Now let there be no Republican nominee, John McCain, has worn the uniform of our country with bravery and distinction, and for that we owe him our gratitude and next week, we39。ll also hear about those occasions when he39。s broken with his party as evidence that he can deliver the change that we the record39。s clear: John McCain has voted with George Bush ninety percent of the 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 don39。t know about you, but I39。m not ready to take a ten percent chance on truth is, on issue after issue that would make a difference in your livesSenator McCain has been anything but said that our economy has made “great progress” under this said that the fundamentals of the economy are when one of his chief advisorswas talking about the anxiety Americans are feeling, he said that we were just suffering from a “mental recession,” and that we39。ve bee, 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 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 are not work hard and give back and keep going without are the Americans that I , I don39。t believe that Senator McCain doesn39。t care what39。s going on in the lives of just think he doesn39。t else would he define middleclass 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 panies 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 people39。s benefits, or an education plan that would do nothing to help families pay for college, or a plan that would privatize Social Security and gamble your retirement?It39。s not because John McCain doesn39。t 39。s because John McCain doesn39。t get over two decades, he39。s subscribed to that old, discredited Republican philosophyyou39。re on your of work? Tough health care? The market will fix into poverty? Pull