Obama Cries In Final Speech

As sentimentality goes, President Barack Obama hosting the last campaign event of his political career in Des Moines, Iowa, is hard to top. The Hawkeye State launched the then-junior senator from Illinois to national prominence. And there is a movie script-like quality to having such a historic political trajectory emerge out of the frosty cornfields.

Speaking just steps from his 2008 caucus headquarters on Monday evening, it seemed at times as if the magic hadn't faded.

"I came back to ask you to help us finish what we started because this is where our movement for change began," Obama declared. "To all of you who've lived and breathed the hard work of change: I want to thank you. You took this campaign and made it your own ... starting a movement that spread across the country.

"When the cynics said we couldn't, you said yes we can. You said yes we can and we did. Against all odds, we did," he said.

Wiping the occasional tear from his eye, and looking over a crowd of 20,000, Obama concluded with the same story that he told on the last day of his '08 campaign: about the origins of his signature "fired-up-ready-to-go" chant. The arc of his first term in office was seemingly complete.

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[hanoitwin]

You Retard

[hanoitwin]

Thanks you fucking idiot.

[torahislife]

fake tears. just like Barry Sotero and his fake birth certificate.

[Saint Jimmy]

Loling at how you think votes mean anything.

[Antoine Lafrance]

But you americans did vote for Bush twice..

[Clint Walker]

I helped him get back in

[mick tellerino]

you got that right my friend

[truism567]

he is crying for his enormous egoshould he loose... not for Americans

huge diff

[Chase M]

Dude if Obama sucks then he wouldn't have been elected again.

[Chris Wehan]

look at all the dumb american's who live inside the box.