Friday, August 29, 2008

Democratic National Convention - Day 4

Das große Finale: Barack Obama hat eine großartige Rede im Football-Stadion von Denver gehalten, ca. 70.000 Zuschauer vor Ort, Feuerwerk.

I love this country, and so do you, and so does John McCain. The men and women who serve in our battlefields may be Democrats and Republicans and Independents, but they have fought together and bled together and some died together under the same proud flag. They have not served a Red America or a Blue America - they have served the United States of America.

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This country of ours has more wealth than any nation, but that's not what makes us rich. We have the most powerful military on Earth, but that's not what makes us strong. Our universities and our culture are the envy of the world, but that's not what keeps the world coming to our shores.

Instead, it is that American spirit - that American promise - that pushes us forward even when the path is uncertain; that binds us together in spite of our differences; that makes us fix our eye not on what is seen, but what is unseen, that better place around the bend.


Die Rede lesen oder als Video sehen bei www.demconvention.com !

Interessant war die Ähnlichkeit des Bühnendesigns mit dem der Republikaner 2004 (Bilder hier). Obama und seine Familie kamen glaubwürdig und sympathisch rüber, es ist fast unmöglich, sie nicht zu mögen.