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[geekchick]

Transcript of Barack Obama's keynote.

Wow.

If you missed it the first time around, try to watch him when CNN or CSPAN repeats the coverage later tonight.

Now even as we speak, there are those who are preparing to divide us, the spin masters and negative ad peddlers who embrace the politics of anything goes.

Well, I say to them tonight, there's not a liberal America and a conservative America; there's the United States of America.

(APPLAUSE)

There's not a black America and white America and Latino America and Asian America; there's the United States of America.

(APPLAUSE)

The pundits, the pundits like to slice and dice our country into red states and blue States: red states for Republicans, blue States for Democrats. But I've got news for them, too. We worship an awesome God in the blue states, and we don't like federal agents poking around our libraries in the red states.

We coach little league in the blue states and, yes, we've got some gay friends in the red states.

(APPLAUSE)

There are patriots who opposed the war in Iraq, and there are patriots who supported the war in Iraq.

We are one people, all of us pledging allegiance to the stars and stripes, all of us defending the United States of America.

(APPLAUSE)

OBAMA: In the end, that's what this election is about. Do we participate in a politics of cynicism, or do we participate in a politics of hope?

Comments

[geekchick]

I doubt he really believes that it would be impossible for such a thing to happen elsewhere; do some of the people he's addressing think so? Maybe, I don't know. It sounds to me like he might just be playing up the "American dream" thing, which is going to go over well at a convention. Given the rest of his speech, that little bit didn't actually even register with me; I was ready to vote for him for president by the end of it.