Memorable Speech - Barack Obama at Chicago - Victory Speech

Hello, Chicago! If there is anyone out there who still doubts that America is a place where all things are possible, who still wonders if the dream of our founders is alive in our time, who still questions the power of our democracy, tonight is your answer. It’s the answer told by lines that stretched around schools and churches in numbers this nation has never seen, by people who waited three hours and four hours, many for the first time in their lives, because they believed that this time must be different, that their voices could be that difference. It’s the answer spoken by young and old, rich and poor, Democrat and Republican, black, white, Hispanic, Asian, Native American, gay, straight, disabled and not disabled. Americans who sent a message to the world that we have never been just a collection of individuals or a collection of red states and blue states. We are, and always will be, the United States of America. It's the answer that led those who've been told for so long by so many to be cynical and fearful and doubtful about what we can achieve to put their hands on the arc of history and bend it once more toward the hope of a better day. It's been a long time coming, but tonight, because of what we did on this date in this election at this defining moment change has come to America. A little bit earlier this evening, I received an extraordinarily gracious call from Senator Mc-Cain. Senator McCain fought long and hard in this campaign. And he's fought even longer and harder for the country that he loves. He has endured sacrifices for America that most of us cannot begin to imagine. We are better off for the service rendered by this brave and selfless leader. I congratulate him; I congratulate Governor Palin for all that they've achieved. And I look forward to working with them to renew this nation's promise in the months ahead. I want to thank my partner in this journey, a man who campaigned from his heart, and spoke for the men and women he grew up with on the streets of Scranton ... and rode with on the train home to Delaware, the vice president-elect of the United States, Joe Biden. And I would not be standing here tonight without the unyielding support of my best friend for the last 16 years ... the rock of our family, the love of my life, the nation's next first lady ... Michelle Obama. Sasha and Malia ... I love you both more than you can imagine. And you have earned the new puppy that’s coming with us ...to the new White House. And while she’s no longer with us, I know my grandmother’s watching, along with the family that made me who I am. I miss them tonight. I know that my debt to them is beyond measure. To my sister Maya, my sister Alma, all my other brothers and sisters, thank you so much for all the support that you’ve given me. And to my campaign manager, David Plouffe ... the unsung hero of this campaign, who built the best... the best political campaign, I think, in the history of the United States of America. To my chief strategist David Axelrod ... who’s been a partner with me every step of the way. To the best campaign team ever assembled in the history of politics ... you made this happen, and I am forever grateful for what you’ve sacrificed to get it done. But above all, I will never forget who this victory truly belongs to. It belongs to you. It belongs to you. I was never the likeliest candidate for this office. We didn’t start with much money or many endorsements. Our campaign began in the backyards of Des Moines and the living rooms of Concord and the front porches of Charleston. It was built by working men and women who dug into what little savings they had to give $5 and $10 and $20 to the cause. It drew strength from the not-so-young people who braved the bitter cold and scorching heat to knock on doors of strangers, and from the millions of Americans who volunteered and organised and proved that more than two centuries later a government of the people, by the people, and for the people has not perished from the Earth. This is your victory. And I know you didn’t do this just to win an election. And I know you didn't do it for me. You did it because you understand the enormity of the task that lies ahead. For even as we celebrate tonight, we know the challenges that tomorrow will bring are the greatest of our lifetime — two wars, a planet in peril, the worst financial crisis in a century. The road ahead will be long. Our climb will be steep. We may not get there in one year or even in one term. But, America, I have never been more hopeful than I am tonight that we will get there. I promise you, we as a people will get there. There will be setbacks and false starts. There are many who won't agree with every decision or policy I make as president. And we know the government can't solve every problem. But I will always be honest with you about the challenges we face. I will listen to you, especially when we disagree. And, above all, I will ask you to join in the work of remaking this nation, the only way it's been done in America for 221 years - block by block, brick by brick, calloused hand by calloused hand. What began 21 months ago in the depths of winter cannot end on this autumn night. This victory alone is not the change we seek. It is only the chance for us to make that change. And that cannot happen if we go back to the way things were. It can't happen without you, without a new spirit of service, a new spirit of sacrifice. Let us remember that, if this financial crisis taught us anything, it's that we cannot have a thriving Wall Street while Main Street suffers. In this country, we rise or fall as one nation, as one people. Let's resist the temptation to fall back on the same partisanship and pettiness and immaturity that has poisoned our politics for so long. xAs Lincoln said to a nation far more divided than ours, we are not enemies but friends. Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection. And to those Americans whose support I have yet to earn, I may not have won your vote tonight, but I hear your voices. I need your help. And I will be your president, too. And to all those watching tonight from beyond our shores, from parliaments and palaces, to those who are huddled around radios in the forgotten corners of the world, our stories are singular, but our destiny is shared, and a new dawn of American leadership is at hand. To those... to those who would tear the world down: We will defeat you. To those who seek peace and security: We support you. And to all those who have wondered if America's beacon still burns as bright: Tonight we proved once more that the true strength of our nation comes not from the might of our arms or the scale of our wealth, but from the enduring power of our ideals: democracy, liberty, opportunity and unyielding hope. That's the true genius of America: that America can change. Our union can be perfected. What we've already achieved gives us hope for what we can and must achieve tomorrow. This election had many firsts and many stories that will be told for generations. But one that's on my mind tonight's about a woman who cast her ballot in Atlanta. She's a lot like the millions of others who stood in line to make their voice heard in this election except for one thing: Ann Nixon Cooper is 106 years old. She was born just a generation past slavery; a time when there were no cars on the road or planes in the sky; when someone like her couldn't vote for two reasons - because she was a woman and because of the colour of her skin. And tonight, I think about all that she's seen throughout her century in America - the heartache and the hope; the struggle and the progress; the times we were told that we can't, and the people who pressed on with that American creed: Yes we can. At a time when women's voices were silenced and their hopes dismissed, she lived to see them stand up and speak out and reach for the ballot. Yes we can. When there was despair in the dust bowl and depression across the land, she saw a nation conquer fear itself with a New Deal, new jobs, a new sense of common purpose. Yes we can. When the bombs fell on our harbor and tyranny threatened the world, she was there to witness a generation rise to greatness and a democracy was saved. Yes we can. She was there for the buses in Montgomery, the hoses in Birmingham, a bridge in Selma, and a preacher from Atlanta who told a people that We Shall Overcome. Yes we can. A man touched down on the moon, a wall came down in Berlin, a world was connected by our own science and imagination. And this year, in this election, she touched her finger to a screen, and cast her vote, because after 106 years in America, through the best of times and the darkest of hours, she knows how America can change. Yes we can. America, we have come so far. We have seen so much. But there is so much more to do. So tonight, let us ask ourselves - if our children should live to see the next century; if my daughters should be so lucky to live as long as Ann Nixon Cooper, what change will they see? What progress will we have made? This is our chance to answer that call. This is our moment. This is our time, to put our people back to work and open doors of opportunity for our kids; to restore prosperity and promote the cause of peace; to reclaim the American dream and reaffirm that fundamental truth, that, out of many, we are one; that while we breathe, we hope. And where we are met with cynicism and doubts and those who tell us that we can't, we will respond with that timeless creed that sums up the spirit of a people: Yes, we can. Thank you. God bless you. And may God bless the United States of America.

OBAMA a new Lease of Hope - YES WE CAN

Barack Obama, a new lease of hope not only for Americans but for the whole world. Last night i heard his victory speech at Chicago, and he was like a true politician and ture leader.Most of the people there has wet eyes while he was delievring his speech and the slogan he has given "Yes We Can" works like magic words and all americans goes after these words just like a bagpiper effect. My opinion is Barack Obama is more fortunate, i am not saying that he is not a deserving President. But the major factors which i think for his win are(a)Bush Administration failure(b)Disastorous Policies(c)Missionless war against terrorism(d)Drowning Economy.

I think he is at the right place at the right time.In my opinion if in place of Barack Obama, Hilary Clinton would be the democratic candidate for presidential election, results would be the same. May be i am wrong but the need of change that every americans are seeking for so long made him to be the world's most powerful man.I dont think Obama will be able to enjoy his victory for so long because now the real test will happen in front of all the people who has voted him and i know the expectation level of all the americans would be very high that Obama will wave some magic wand and all the problems will be just perished. But the people must understand that the existing issues are so vigourous and serious that they will sort out only after long reforms and correct policies and this will take time.Presently the situation is a single wrong step or policy will take america into deep trouble. But i am quite sure that Barack Obama is a well equiped guy with lot of minded advisors and policy makers. I wish him all the luck and success for his tenure, may god bless him all the power and ability to take whole world to the light of success and peaceful world.

Hello Everyone,

After a long break, finally I made my mind to write something here. Last two weeks I have been through a hell, and completely unexpected things were happening with me. Till before two weeks the word “Hacking” to me is like a fun word but this single thing can change your complete reputation in society, this single thing can change your life that is what happened with me.

I will tell you guys the complete story; me and one of my friend chatted on Google talk and we were very frequent. Mostly we talk about other friends in a light minded humor way and all this chat get stored in chat history of our Google account. Now comes the twister part, someone of our group hacked my friends Google account and took snap shots of our chat and made public to our other friends, and they represent as we are the most worst people on this earth because in some of the chats we used some bad words about one of the girl and that is also not seriously. The mastermind behind this represents all this as very serious issue like we are planning something. Adding more to it this, the planners took copy and paste our chat on notepad and edited it and add very bad words about our very good friends and convinced them that these guys are dirty minded people. Now everyone is convinced that we are not civilized people we think dirty about them and they stopped talking to us.

I was completely shocked when I got this news and now I am not able to prove myself not guilty. I am in such pressure that not able to do work in the office, 24 hours a day I am trying to find a way to prove that we are not such kind of people, we accepted that yes we did chat about someone in which we use some bad words but for other people we don’t even think that way, I am shocked and sad because those were my really good friends and they have lot of trust on me and now I am nowhere. They don’t even want to see my face or talk to me. How should I explain to them that all this is just a game plan by someone else to degrade us?

I know what you are thinking now, that why should one plan something like this against us, so the reason is the person about whom we were chatted using some bad words had a tiff with my friend on the day before all this occurred and by doing this she is taking revenge and I am the one who is facing all this without doing anything.

If someone has some suggestions which helps me to come clean out of this please help.

Jumbled Up......!!

Hi,
I don’t know what is going on with me; I have started realizing that I am unable to handle the relationships in correct manner. Everybody around me is just so angry with me. I don’t know why all such things are happening, though I am constantly making efforts to fulfill everyone’s expectation that they have from me, but still I am failed.
One of my very good friends is very angry with me because I don’t give time to talk for just one or two days and that is because of my some very urgent work. Another friend who is also very angry just because I don’t have time for two or three days because of my office work.
What should I do, I mean should I always live for others, just to make them happy by listening to their problems, or by just be with them , by listening their achievements, or laugh with them in spite I have loads of tension on my head. What about me, what about my problems, what about my time, what about my work, Aren’t they important to my friends also as they are to me, don’t they think that sometimes I may also have some problems. I just can’t understand why I am always at the position where I have to just listen and console them or laugh with them or be with them no matter how much important work of mine is getting spoiled.
How should I change all this crap? After giving a thought to this problem I have found that, this problem has some credit to my time mismanagement also.
I can explain, like if I committed to some of my friend that I will give you a call at this time, and I just couldn’t make it on time, then it is but obvious that, he/she will get angry.
I just don’t know when it will get better or when I will change my bad habit of time mismanagement. You just can’t imagine that how much you have to suffer in life because of this time mismanagement.

Good Morning

Hello Everyone
Good morning, here I am all set to publish my second post for my blog. Today is rakshabandhan (a Hindu festival). Those who don’t know about this Indian festival let me give a brief intro about it. It is a festival of brother and sister, today sisters will tie the wrist of their brothers with colored threads and brothers gladly takes on the responsibility of protecting her sister. This is something very sacred and true feelings which we Indian have, and these are the festivals which keep us together and close.
History witnesses that for this single thread tied by sister, how many brave men hugs the death happily for the vow they have taken of the protection of their sister. These are the tradition and values we strongly believe.
Now i am going to celebrate this festival, hope whoever reads this post and never heard of Rakshabandhan, is now having some brief idea about this festival.
So enjoy and take care

Auspicious Day - 15th AUgust 2008

Today is my first post for my blog and I am glad that it has started on the very special day for all the Indians. We have just entered into the 62nd year of our Independence. Today is 16th of August and the clock has just crossed the 15th. Independence Day, this word Independence has too many emotions in it. We the young generation will never feel the agony, the cheer or the passion for independence. And I am saying this not because it is written again and again in newspapers or magazines that young generation will never feel the importance of independence, but i do feel it strongly. Often we take the miss interpretation of independence. Here I think I have started the speech. Well the basic motto of writing this blog of mine is to splurge out all the things running in my mind day and night. I don’t know, it has any worth or not but I want to write it so I am writing it, as simple as that. So here I am sharing the experience of mine on the day of 15th of August 2008. Well I have started my day late in the morning as usual, and the first thing I did after I woke up is to put on the Television, this is not something I do everyday but today since childhood my mother fills an expression in our mind that, on such kind of days whatever our Prime minister or our President speaks to the nation is very much important and we have to see the parade of our armed forces and of other various states. But I forgot that all such happenings are of 26th January, which is our Republic day, so I just scrolled up the channels, and I saw one movie was there on Bharat Ratna Dr Bheem Rao Ambedkar and I have seen the whole movie. I don’t know why, but if you can ask to any Indian who has something in their hearts and mind for their country, today we feel something different within us, I don’t know about others but I do feel the difference from other days. Anyways for Indians Dr. Ambedkars name is not new and those who don’t know about this great man should read about him. Firstly a brief introduction of Dr Ambedkar, he came from the most oppressed community of Indian society and reached to the pinnacle of the Indian Politics and showed a path of light to each individual who belongs to the oppressed community anywhere in the world. After that movie, my day started and I was fully charged up and enthusiastic about the day, after my breakfast I headed to meet my friend came for Rakshabandhan (An Indian Festival) from Pune. After that I cam back home and again I sit in front of television, nowadays Beijing Olympics are going on, and one of our Indian has created the history called Abhinav Bindra, the hero, I have seen his victory moment on Television so many times till now and every time I saw the moment that Indian Flag is up above all other flags and Our National Anthem is playing on foreign land, I am just so thrilled. Now this pleasant gift to the nation just before Independence day is an excellent gift, one more good news for India today on 15th August that, one more Indian Hero Akhil Kumar has entered into the Quarter Finals of Boxing championship after defeating the world champion from Russia called Sergei. I saw the interview of Akhil Kumar on T.V and one tremendous line he has said that “Whenever I play in the ring, always my effort is to make my opponent and everyone in the arena should know that the player is from India, that is the impact I want to create, that is the only name “India” I want to hear again and again in the Arena. I just want to WIN and nothing else”. I feel that these are our modern days Patriots, who just want to win for the country nothing more and nothing less. There are lot of names you will heard everywhere on 15th August, Shaheed Bhagat Singh, Subhash Chandra Bose, Lal BAhadur Shahstri, Mahatma Gandhi, Jawahar Lal Nehru, Sardar Patel, Maulana Azaad, Chandrashekhar Azaad, Bahadur Shah Zafar and many others. These are the names of our Freedom Fight Heroes. These are the real heroes. In all of the above mentioned names, Shaheed Bhagat Singh was the youngest one. At the age of 23 years, he was hanged till death by the Britishers and he fearlessly kisses his death Dias for his country. Now I am feeling bit sleepy so ….i will continue in my next post Bye n take care