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Dialogue: 0,0:00:00.00,0:00:09.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[Guitar and drum intro music plays]
Dialogue: 0,0:00:09.00,0:00:13.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[Piano music plays]
Dialogue: 0,0:00:13.00,0:00:19.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[Guitar strums and Audience cheers]
Dialogue: 0,0:00:19.76,0:00:24.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,>>ROBERT LEHRMAN: Barack Obama in 2004 was totally unknown.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:24.64,0:00:27.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,People were saying, "Huh, I don't know who this guy is.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:27.41,0:00:28.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Wonder why they picked him."
Dialogue: 0,0:00:28.64,0:00:31.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,>>MICHAEL COHEN: He had this reputation as a bit of an upstart.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:31.24,0:00:34.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,As sort of a young, rising figure in the party.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:34.04,0:00:35.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But no one knew who this guy was.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:35.42,0:00:37.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This was his chance to introduce himself to people.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:38.03,0:00:45.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,>>BARACK OBAMA: Tonight is a particular honor for me because, let's face it, my presence on this stage is pretty unlikely.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:46.76,0:00:52.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,My father was a foreign student, born and raised in a small village in Kenya.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:53.00,0:00:58.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,>>COHEN: What makes a great political feat is if you can somehow fold your story into this larger American story.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:58.16,0:01:00.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,>>LEHRMAN: The next thing he says is about his mother's family.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:00.63,0:01:05.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,His grandfather fought in World War II, he used the GI Bill, they settled in Kansas.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:05.71,0:01:08.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So white people could say, "Huh, oh.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:08.91,0:01:10.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He's just like us."
Dialogue: 0,0:01:10.86,0:01:13.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,>>OBAMA: My parents shared not only an improbable love;
Dialogue: 0,0:01:13.88,0:01:17.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,they shared an abiding faith in the possibilities of this nation.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:19.02,0:01:23.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I stand here knowing that my story is part of the larger American story.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:23.78,0:01:27.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That I owe a debt to all of those who came before me,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:27.22,0:01:31.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and that in no other country on earth is my story even possible.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:31.47,0:01:35.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[New Age transition music plays]
Dialogue: 0,0:01:35.56,0:01:40.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,>>CHARLTON MCILWAIN: Going into this speech, we've had four years of George Bush,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:40.38,0:01:43.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and we felt, as a country, like we've grown further apart.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:43.59,0:01:46.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,>>COHEN: '04 was very much a divisive partisan race.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:46.57,0:01:49.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Obama's speech was in some ways an antidote to that.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:49.19,0:01:51.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,>>OBAMA: Alongside our famous individualism,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:51.69,0:01:58.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,there's another ingredient in the American saga, a belief that we are all connected as one people.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:59.42,0:02:02.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If there's a child on the south side of Chicago who can't read,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:02.54,0:02:05.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that matters to me, even if it's not my child.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:05.02,0:02:05.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[Audience applauds]
Dialogue: 0,0:02:05.82,0:02:10.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If there's a senior citizen somewhere who\Ncan't pay for their prescription,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:10.10,0:02:12.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and having to choose between medicine and the rent,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:12.22,0:02:15.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that makes my life poorer, even if it's not my grandparent.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:15.40,0:02:17.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[Audience applauds]
Dialogue: 0,0:02:17.22,0:02:20.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It is that fundamental belief, I am my brother's keeper,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:20.92,0:02:24.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I am my sister's keeper, that makes this country work.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:24.41,0:02:25.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[Audience applauds]
Dialogue: 0,0:02:25.41,0:02:29.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"E pluribus unum," out of many, one.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:29.66,0:02:34.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,>>COHEN: He gives a speech that presages his entire political message of 2008
Dialogue: 0,0:02:34.54,0:02:36.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,which is this sort of post-partisan argument.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:36.54,0:02:41.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,>>OBAMA: Now even as we speak, there are those who are preparing to divide us,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:41.46,0:02:47.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the spin masters, the negative ad peddlers who embrace the politics of anything goes.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:48.20,0:02:54.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Well, I say to them tonight, there is not a liberal America and a conservative America;
Dialogue: 0,0:02:54.74,0:02:57.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,there is the United States of America.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:57.56,0:02:58.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[Audience applauds]
Dialogue: 0,0:02:58.73,0:03:01.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[Jazzy transition music plays]
Dialogue: 0,0:03:01.08,0:03:04.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,>>MARIO CUOMO: Obama was born with two great gifts.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:04.36,0:03:10.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,One is his mind, and the other is his ability to speak to large groups of people.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:10.98,0:03:15.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,>>LEHRMAN: There are three things that Obama does that really makes that speech effective.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:15.82,0:03:21.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He wants concrete detail, he likes story, and he loves antithesis,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:21.00,0:03:25.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the use of repetition and structure to show contrast.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:25.02,0:03:28.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"There is not a liberal America, or a conservative America."
Dialogue: 0,0:03:28.26,0:03:29.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There is one America.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:29.56,0:03:33.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,>>OBAMA: There's not a black America and white America
Dialogue: 0,0:03:33.14,0:03:38.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and Latino America and Asian America; there's the United States of America.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:38.74,0:03:39.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[Audience applauds]
Dialogue: 0,0:03:39.70,0:03:44.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The pundits like to slice and dice our country into red states and blue states,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:44.83,0:03:46.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but I've got news for them too.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:46.47,0:03:49.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We worship an awesome God in the blue states,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:49.25,0:03:52.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and we don't like federal agents poking around our libraries in the red states.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:52.74,0:03:55.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[Audience cheers]
Dialogue: 0,0:03:55.12,0:04:00.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We coach little league in the blue states and, yes, we've got some gay friends in the red states.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:00.86,0:04:01.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[Audience applauds]
Dialogue: 0,0:04:01.40,0:04:05.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We are one people, all of us pledging allegiance to the stars and stripes,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:05.46,0:04:09.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,all of us defending the United States of America.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:09.56,0:04:11.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[Audience cheers]
Dialogue: 0,0:04:11.12,0:04:13.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,>>COHEN: The way he uses his hands, he actually points a lot
Dialogue: 0,0:04:13.84,0:04:15.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and does a lot of "this", and a lot of "this", and a lot of "that".
Dialogue: 0,0:04:15.90,0:04:18.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,>>MCILWAIN: In doing so, he gives off this sense of energy.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:18.30,0:04:21.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"I am new, I am someone who is dynamic."
Dialogue: 0,0:04:21.58,0:04:23.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,>>COHEN: And he doesn't do that so much anymore.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:23.38,0:04:27.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He's a little more solemn, and reserved when he gives speeches today.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:27.02,0:04:28.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I think it's more reflective of his office.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:28.93,0:04:31.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[Guitar-based transition music plays]
Dialogue: 0,0:04:31.45,0:04:32.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[Audience applauds]
Dialogue: 0,0:04:32.71,0:04:37.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,>>OBAMA: In the end, in the end, that's what this election is about.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:37.19,0:04:38.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[Audience chanting "Obama"]
Dialogue: 0,0:04:38.61,0:04:45.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Do we participate in a politics of cynicism, or do we participate in a politics of hope?
Dialogue: 0,0:04:46.06,0:04:49.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's the hope of slaves sitting around a fire singing freedom songs;
Dialogue: 0,0:04:50.00,0:04:53.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the hope of immigrants setting out for distant shores;
Dialogue: 0,0:04:54.18,0:04:59.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the hope of a young naval lieutenant bravely patrolling the Mekong Delta;
Dialogue: 0,0:04:59.56,0:05:03.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the hope of a millworker's son who dares to defy the odds;
Dialogue: 0,0:05:03.20,0:05:08.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the hope of a skinny kid with a funny name who believes that America has a place for him, too.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:08.64,0:05:10.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[Audience applauds]
Dialogue: 0,0:05:10.72,0:05:14.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,>>OBAMA: Hope. Hope in the face of difficulty.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:14.86,0:05:20.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Hope in the face of uncertainty, the audacity of hope.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:20.50,0:05:21.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[Audience cheering]
Dialogue: 0,0:05:21.86,0:05:25.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,>>LEHRMAN: His appearance at that convention, which was the best speech of the convention,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:25.90,0:05:29.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,better than John Kerry's, was electrifying.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:29.42,0:05:31.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And without it, he wouldn't be president.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:31.62,0:05:33.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,>>CUOMO: I think sincerity means a lot.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:33.84,0:05:37.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There are people who, when they speak, they speak the truth as they see it.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:37.92,0:05:40.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And they're- they're very effective doing that.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:40.44,0:05:43.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,>>OBAMA: I believe this country will reclaim it's promise,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:43.66,0:05:47.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and out of this long political darkness, a brighter day will come.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:47.27,0:05:48.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Thank you very much, everybody.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:48.27,0:05:49.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,God bless you.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:49.27,0:06:03.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[Audience cheers]
Dialogue: 0,0:06:03.27,0:06:12.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[Drum-based outro music plays]