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SEN. OBAMA: My wife, Michelle, is there, and she could give you
a much longer list than I do. (Laughter.) And most of the time, I
learn it by asking her.
But look, the nature of the challenges that we're going to face
are immense. And one of the things that we know about the presidency
is that it's never the challenges that you expect, it's the challenges
that you don't that end up consuming most of your time.
But here's what I do know. I know that I wouldn't be standing
here if it weren't for the fact that this country gave me opportunity.
You know, I came from very modest means. I had a single mom, and my
grandparents raised me, and it was because of the help of scholarships
and my grandmother scrimping on things that, you know, she might have
wanted to purchase, and my mom at one point getting food stamps in
order for us to put food on the table. Despite all that, I was able
to go to the best schools on Earth. I was able to succeed in a way
that I could not have succeeded anywhere else in this country. The
same is true for Michelle, and I'm sure the same is true for a lot of
you.
And the question in this election is, are we going to pass on
that same American dream to the next generation? Over the last eight
years, we've seen that dream diminish.


Wages and incomes have gone down. People have lost their health care
or are going bankrupt because they get sick.
We've got young people who have got the grades and the will and
the drive to go to college. But they just don't have the money. And
we can't expect that if we do the same things that we've been doing,
over the last

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  • CANADA FOR OBAMA

  • Where did you buy your education, Intelligentcreature? Serious question. You can't buy an Ivy League education with craker jack money. Put you and Senator Obama in a public debate. He'd own you.

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  • As if America was the epitomy of goodness and moral values before Bush came out and tarnished its reputation. America was built and defined on the basis of racial extermination, segregation and slavery ; has always been a bloody continent with its incalculable wars ; and transformed into an imperialistic entity after the second world war, helped by its powerful propaganda channels (Hollywood, mainly) and its capitalist vultors...

  • @xolalaox11 BWAHAHAHA!!!! I love outdated YouTube comments. Especially when people make claims that they are so SURE of, and they turn out to be so wrong. I can't stand Obama, but McCain is every bit as bad. Oh, and in case you didn't hear it on FOX news, Obama won. BWAHAHAHAHA!!!!!

  • GOD !!! hey is that you ?

    I came across this girl in my nite club

    OMG I still have her profile saved @ DateHerSafe[]com/profile?=1683

  • get over it ...WE WIN U LOSER!

  • ...at being old and dusty!

  • So McCain only established that he isn't psychic and can't read the future. And later in his response, like I said before, McCain tried to appeal to the working-class people because Obama wasted his whole response doing that.

    McCain didn't say "what he didn't know" other than saying he doesn't know "what's going to happen" and the "unexpected". That's not answering the question, that's 1st grade LOGIC! N-o-b-o-d-y knows the unexpected or the future. Both dodged it equally. End of story.

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