Prepared Text of Barack Obama's Acceptance Speech

Here is the full text of Barack Obama's acceptance speech for the Democratic nomination for the presidency. The title of tonight's speech at Invesco Field in Denver is "The American Promise."

Tonight, I say to the American people, to Democrats and Republicans and Independents across this great land – enough! This moment – this election – is our chance to keep, in the 21st century, the American promise alive. Because next week, in Minnesota, the same party that brought you two terms of George Bush and Dick Cheney will ask this country for a third. And we are here because we love this country too much to let the next four years look like the last eight. On November 4th, we must stand up and say: “Eight is enough.”

Comments

[Ling]

Spectacular!! There are no other words to describe tonight.

I must say what got to me the most was seeing the faces of the people in the crowd. You could taste their hunger for change and their need to embrace a new hero. Americans are in desperate need of healing, and Obama got it. That literally brought a tear or two witnessing this.

[Ling]

Spectacular!! There are no other words to describe tonight.

I must say what got to me the most was seeing the faces of the people in the crowd. You could taste their hunger for change and their need to embrace a new hero. Americans are in desperate need of healing, and Obama got it. That literally brought a tear or two witnessing this.

[If_I_was_a_tree_I'd_hug_myself]

Multiple choice...

Whose words are these?

"It is useless to reopen wounds that seem scarcely healed;...useless to speak of guilt regarding men who in the bottom of their hearts, perhaps, were all devoted to their nation with equal love, and who only missed or failed to understand the common road."

A. Barack Obama
B. Adolf Hitler
C. Josef Dzhugashvili

Answer is B. Adolf Hitler wrote it in Mein Kampf, Volume Two (per Shirer, from The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich.)

The statement could have been made by either of the other two. Except C could have been eliminated by anyone who pays attention; Uncle Joe wasn't one for flowery speechs, and didn't care to even give lip service to healing.