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Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[Off voice] Please welcome Kal Penn...
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[Applause and cheers]
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[Kal Penn] Thank you - thank you guys
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I am honored to accept your nomination for president of the United States!
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Wait, this isn’t my speech.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Prompter guy, can we pull up my speech?
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,While we’re waiting:
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a special message for those of you at home who have recently turned 18.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Good news. I can now legally register you to vote.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I’ve worked on a lot of fun movies,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but my favorite job was having a boss who gave the order to take out bin Laden
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and who’s cool with all of us getting gay-married.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Thank you, invisible man in the chair, for that,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and for giving my friends access to affordable health insurance
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and doubling funding for the Pell grant.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I started volunteering for Barack Obama in 2007.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But nothing compares to what I saw behind the scenes at the White House,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,when I had the honor to serve for two years
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,as President Obama’s liaison to young Americans.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I saw how hard he fights for us.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,One of the most special days was a Saturday in 2010.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The Senate repealed “don’t ask, don’t tell,”
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,so anyone can serve the country they love, regardless of whom they love.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But that same day, the Dream Act was blocked.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That bill would give immigrant children
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- who’ve never pledged allegiance to any flag but ours -
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the chance to earn their citizenship. Simple. Important.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I was in a small office on the second floor of the West Wing with eight other staffers.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We’d worked our hearts out and cared deeply about
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,what this would mean for other young people.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There wasn’t a dry eye in the room, tears of joy for the history that was made,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but also tears of sadness because some American dreams would still be deferred.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Five minutes later, President Obama walked in, sleeves rolled up.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He said to us, “This is not over. We’re gonna keep fighting. I’m gonna keep fighting.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I need young people to keep fighting.”
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That’s why we’re here!
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,A few months later, President Obama fought to keep taxes
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,from going up on middle-class families.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Our Republican friends said, “Sure you can do that.”
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But one of the things they were willing to trade
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is a little item called the college tax credit,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,which today is saving students up to $10,000 over four years of school.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Now, President Obama paid off his own student loans not too long ago.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He remembers what it is like.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He said making it easier to go to college and get technical training
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is exactly how we grow our economy, create jobs and out-compete the world.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So he stood firm. And that tuition tax credit is still here.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But, if we don’t register, if we don’t vote, it won’t be.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I volunteered in Iowa in 2007 because, like you,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I had friends serving in Iraq, friends who were looking for jobs,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,others who couldn’t go to the doctor because they couldn’t afford it.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I felt that had to change.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So I knocked on doors.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I registered voters.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I’m volunteering again now
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because my friend Matt got a job at a Detroit car company that still exists,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and Lauren can get the prescription she needs.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I’m volunteering because Josiah is back from Iraq,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Chris is finishing college on the GI Bill,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and three weeks ago, my buddy Kevin’s boyfriend was able to
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,watch him graduate from Marine Corps training.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That’s change!
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And we can’t turn back now.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So before I close
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- and as I wonder which Twitter hash tags you’ll start using when I’m done talking
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(hash tag sexy face) -
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I ask all you young people to join me.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You don’t even have to put pants on.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Go to commit.barackobama.com and register right there.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And the oldies out there, you can do it, too.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Let’s keep fighting for a president who’s never stopped fighting for us!
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Go online.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Find your local campaign office.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Call your friends. Call some strangers. Volunteer.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That’s how we’re going to win this thing.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I really enjoyed listening to Rahm’s speech.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But he’s a mayor now, so he can’t use four-letter words.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But I’m no mayor. So I’ve got one for you:
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Vote.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(English captions based on the script in http://www.demconvention.com/pressrelease/2012-democratic-national-convention-remarks-as-prepared-for-delivery-by-kal-penn-actorproducer-former-associate-director-of-the-white-house-office-of-public-engagement/)
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,