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.
