Obama's plea: If you want change, stay with me

Date
    September 8, 2012


Obama leans on his rhetoric of 'hope'

US correspondent Nick O'Malley delivers an analysis of President Barack Obama's speech at the democratic convention in Charlotte, North Carolina.


ACCEPTING the Democratic Party's nomination for the presidency, Barack Obama roused his audience with a defence not only of his record and his plans for a second term, but of the very role of government in America, insisting that he still had hope and that change took time.    

"We don't think governments can solve all our problems, but we don't think that government is the source of all our problems — any more than are welfare recipients, or corporations, or unions, or immigrants, or gays or any other group we are told to blame for our problems," he told a crowd of about 14,000 in a basketball arena in Charlotte, North Carolina.

"We, the people, recognise that we have responsibilities as well as rights; that our destinies are bound together; that a freedom that asks only 'what is in it for me', a freedom without a commitment to others, a freedom without love or charity or duty or patriotism, is unworthy of our founding ideals and those who died in their defense."


US President Barack Obama: 'If you turn away now, if you buy into the cynicism that the change we fought for isn't possible, well, change will not happen.'

The President began sombrely; acknowledging the crises the US has faced this century.


"Now, the first time I addressed this convention in 2004, I was a younger man, a Senate candidate from Illinois who spoke about hope. Eight years later, that hope has been tested, by the cost of war; by one of the worst economic crises in history; and by political gridlock that's left us wondering whether it's still even possible to tackle the challenges of our time."   

Mr Obama dismissed the Republican Party's plan for ending America's malaise by cutting taxes to shrink government and pay down debt.

"All they have to offer is the same prescription they have had for the past 30 years.    

"Have a surplus? Try a tax cut. Deficit too high? Try another.

"Feel a cold coming on? Take two tax cuts, roll back some regulations and call us in the morning."   

The President said voters faced the clearest choice in a generation at the election on November 6. 

"Over the next few years big decisions will be made in Washington on jobs and the economy, taxes and deficits, energy and education, war and peace.

"On every issue the choice you face won't just be between two parties or two candidates — it will be a choice between two different paths for America, a choice between two fundamentally different visions for the future."

Mr Obama's speech listed the issues he saw as critical to a second term — including energy.   

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Yeah, and give him another Nobel Prize. Give him two.
And a banana.

Kaaaarnaaaal!!!!!

Avram Horowitz wrote on Sep 8^th, 2012 at 9:50am:



You would. Like you beat Palestinian children with battens and clubs.

Ex Dame Pansi wrote on Sep 8^th, 2012 at 10:03am:

i saw a bit of his speech,
those yanks are weird.

they really seem to think they are gods chosen people.
i honestly thought i was watching a pentecostal church crowd,  all teary and spiritual and sh#t.


god spare us from these people,
i'd feel much safer snuggling up to china or putin to be honest.  at least they have some understanding of how the world works 

Avram Horowitz wrote on Sep 8^th, 2012 at 10:11am:


can always step out of the way of a tank,  those drones sneak up on you

I am a proud US Citizen and I hope there is change in America.
A change of President!

And he made a bigger mess