【正文】 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 yourself up by your own bootstrapswhen the average American family saw its ine go up $7,500 instead of down $2,000 like it has under George measure the strength of our economy not by the number of billionaires we have or the profits of the Fortune 500, but by whether someone with a good idea can take a risk and start a new business, or whether the waitress who lives on tips can take a day off to look after a sick kid without losing her joba promise that is the only reason I am standing here in the faces of those young veterans who e back from Iraq and Afghanistan, I see my grandfather, who signed up after Pearl Harbor, marched in Patton39。s Army, and was rewarded by a grateful nation with the chance to go to college on the GI the face of that young student who sleeps just three hours before working the night shift, I think about my mom, who raised my sister and me on her own while she worked and earned her degree。who once turned to food stamps but was still able to send us to the best schools in the country with the help of student loans and I listen to another worker tell me that his factory has shut down, I remember all those men and women on the South Side of Chicago who I stood by and fought for two decades ago after the local steel plant when I hear a woman talk about the difficulties of starting her own business, I think about my grandmother, who worked her way up from the secretarial pool to middlemanagement, despite years of being passed over for promotions because she was a 39。s the one who taught me about hard 39。s the one who put off buying a new car or a new dress for herself so that I could have a better poured everything she had into although she can no longer travel, I know that she39。s watching tonight, and that tonight is her night as don39。t know what kind of lives John McCain thinks that celebrities lead, but this has been are my are the stories that shaped it is on their behalf that I intend to win this election and keep our promise alive as President of the United is that promise?It39。s a promise that says each of us has the freedom to make of our own lives what we will, but that we also have the obligation to treat each other with dignity and 39。s a promise that says the market should reward drive and innovation and generate growth, but that businesses should live up to their responsibilities to create American jobs, look