This was a concession speech New Hampshire Primary 2008

I remember this night. I had only slept a total of three hours the week before and was living on fast food and coffee. In the morning I led my team from the South Shore of Massachusetts to Portsmouth, New Hampshire then on a moonlit run across the state to find a small high school gym to hear Obamas speech in person. The people in the gym had become family to me in the months leading up to this night. We were hoping for an Obama victory but everything came crashing down when Hillary Clinton was announced as the winner of the critical New Hampshire primary. The gym had become a funeral waiting for the body to show up. This was the moment when the campaign should have fallen apart. The upstart outsider did not defeat the establishment candidate. Then Barack Obama walked onstage.




In November, one week after Obamas victory in the general campaign, Massachusetts State Director Roger Fisk reminded the sea of volunteers at the Grass Roots Victory party that the long timeline that is American history has many high and low points. From now until the end of our lives we will look to the Barack Obama presidential victory and say we helped make that high point happen. The defeated campaign in New Hampshire became a movement; the movement became a mandate for change, and the victory became an awakening of hope.

The conservative extremists think what we did was a joke. They believe that the status quo can be maintained by maintaining the Bush era politics of fear and division. They have turned reforming healthcare into a political line in the sand for defeating President Obama. By publicly referring to healthcare reform as Obamas Waterloo, they have turned their back on 40 million Americans without health insurance and are ignoring the biggest national crisis in a generation. They do not think our grassroots movement has the ability to change the status quo. I have been witness to the fact that Yes We Can!

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[DCSln]

Nice reference JB. Just about a year ago, at our first volunteer recruitment party, I talked about Obama losing New Hampshire, and that night coming right back with this speech. I think the point was that this guy is willing to fight, and we should fight with him.