【正文】 day, in Mentor, Ohio, where a father told the story of his 8yearold daughter, whose long battle with leukemia nearly cost their family everything had it not been for health care reform passing just a few months before the insurance pany was about to stop paying for her had an opportunity to not just talk to the father, but meet this incredible daughter of when he spoke to the crowd listening to that father39。s story, every parent in that room had tears in their eyes, because we knew that little girl could be our I know that every American wants her future to be just as 39。s who we 39。s the country I39。m so proud to lead as your : And tonight, despite all the hardship we39。ve been through, despite all the frustrations of Washington, I39。ve never been more hopeful about our have never been more hopeful about I ask you to sustain that 39。m not talking about blind optimism, the kind of hope that just ignores the enormity of the tasks ahead or theroadblocks that stand in our 39。m not talking about the wishful idealism that allows us to just sit on the sidelines or shirk from a have always believed that hope is that stubborn thing inside us that insists, despite all the evidence to the contrary, that something better awaits us so long as we have the courage to keep reaching, to keep working, to keep , I believe we can build on the progress we39。ve made and continue to fight for new jobs and new opportunity and new security for the middle believe we can keep the promise of our founders, the idea that if you39。re willing to work hard, it doesn39。t matter who you are or where you e from or what you look like or where you doesn39。t matter whether you39。re black or white or Hispanic or Asian or Native American or young or old or rich or poor, able, disabled, gay or straight, you can make it here in America if you39。re willing to believe we can seize this future together because we are notes divided as our politics 39。re not as cynical as the pundits are greater than the sum of our individual ambitions, and we remain more than a collection of red states and blue are and forever will be the United States of together with your help and God39。s grace we will continue our journey forward and remind the world just why it is that we live in the greatest nation on you, bless bless these United States.第四篇：奧巴馬2012大選勝選演講文稿奧巴馬2012大選勝選演講文稿Transcript: Obama39。s victoryspeechPresident Barack Obama delivered remarks Wednesday in for a transcript of Obama39。s : Thank you so , more than 200 years after a former colony won the rightto determine its own destiny, the task of perfecting our unionmoves forward.(APPLAUSE)OBAMA: It moves forward because of moves forward becauseyou reaffirmed the spirit that has triumphed over war anddepression, the spirit that has lifted this country from the depthsof despair to the great heights of hope, the belief that while eachof us will pursue our own individual dreams, we are an Americanfamily and we rise or fall together as one nation and as onepeople.(APPLAUSE)Tonight, in this election, you, the American people, reminded usthat while our road has been hard, while our journey has been long,we have picked ourselves up, we have fought our way back, and weknow in our hearts that for the United States of America the bestis yet to e.(APPLAUSE)OBAMA: I want to thank every American who participated in thiselection...(APPLAUSE)...whether you voted for the very first time or waited in linefor a very long time.(APPLAUSE)By the way, we have to fix that.(APPLAUSE)Whether you pounded the pavement or picked up the phone...(APPLAUSE)...whether you held an Obama sign or a Romney sign, you madeyour voice heard and you made a just spoke with Governor Romney and I congratulated him andPaul Ryan on a hardfought campaign.(APPLAUSE)We may have battled fiercely, but it39。s only because we love thiscountry deeply and we care so strongly about its to Lenore to their son Mitt, the Romney family has chosen togive back to America through public service and that is the legacythat we honor and applaud tonight.(APPLAUSE)In the weeks ahead, I also look forward to sitting down withGovernor Romney to talk about where we can work together to movethis country forward.(APPLAUSE)I want to thank my friend and partner of the last four years,America39。s happy warrior, the best vice president anybody could everhope for, Joe Biden.(APPLAUSE)OBAMA: And I wouldn39。t be the man I am today without the womanwho agreed to marry me 20 years ago.(APPLAUSE)Let me say this publicly: Michelle, I have never loved you have never been prouder to watch the rest of America fall in lovewith you, too, as our nation39。s first lady.(APPLAUSE)Sasha and Malia, before our very eyes you39。re growing up tobee two strong, smart beautiful young women, just like yourmom.(APPLAUSE)OBAMA: And I39。m so proud of you I will say that for nowone dog39。s probably enough.(LAUGHTER)To the best campaign team and volunteers in the history ofpolitics...(APPLAUSE)The best of you were new this time around,and some of you have been at my side since the very beginning.(APPLAUSE)But all of you are matter what you do or where you gofrom here, you will carry the memory of the history we madetogether and you will have the lifelong appreciation of a you for believing all the way, through every hill,through every valley.(APPLAUSE)You lifted me up the whole way and I will always be grateful foreverything that you39。ve done and all the incredible work that youput in.(APPLAUSE)I know that political campaigns can sometimes seem small, that provides plenty of fodder for the cynics that tellus that politics is nothing more than a contest of egos or thedomain of special if you ever get the chance to talkto folks who turned out at our rallies and crowded along a ropeline in a high school gym, or saw folks working late in a campaignoffice in some tiny county far away from home, you39。ll discoversomething : You39。ll hear the determination in the voice of a youngfield organizer who39。s worki