Excerpts from Obama’s South Carolina Speech (read full transcript here):
Accentuations (Hervorhebungen) by Füchsin
„(…) We are looking for more than just a change of party in the White House.
(…) We’re also struggling with our own doubts, our own fears, our own cynicism. The change we seek has always required great struggle and great sacrifice. And so this is a battle in our own hearts and minds about what kind of country we want and how hard we’re willing to work for it. So let me remind you tonight that change will not be easy. Change will take time. There will be setbacks and false starts, and sometimes we’ll make mistakes. But as hard as it may seem, we cannot lose hope, (…)
(…) When I hear that we’ll never overcome the racial divide in our politics, I think about that Republican woman who used to work for Strom Thurmond, who’s now devoted to educating inner-city children, and who went out into the streets of South Carolina and knocked on doors for this campaign [i.e. Obama’s campaign //Füchsin//]. Don’t tell me we can’t change.”
(Cheers, applause.)
“Yes, we can. Yes, we can change.”
(Chants of “Yes, We Can! Yes, We Can!”)
“Yes, we can.”
(Continued chants of “Yes, We Can!”)
“Yes, we can heal this nation. Yes, we can seize our future. And as we leave this great state with a new wind at our backs, and we take this journey across this great country, a country we love, with the message we’ve carried from the plains of Iowa to the hills of New Hampshire, from the Nevada desert to the South Carolina coast, the same message we had when we were up and when we were down, that out of many we are one, that while we breathe we will hope, and where we are met with cynicism and doubt and fear and those who tell us that we can’t, we will respond with that timeless creed that sums up the spirit of the American people in three simple words: Yes, we can.”
Sounds frightening to me.