by Brian Tomlinson

Created on: August 29, 2008

Tonight, what began in Concord, Massachusetts, as a coalition of farmers, cobblers and tinsmiths, of statesmen and students, mothers and wives, fathers and sons, lives over two centuries later as America! Tonight, Sen. Barak Obama will officially accept the democratic nomination for President of the United States. This will be the first time in American history that an African American will be nominated for such a high office. "If there is no struggle, there is no progress".

Forty-five years ago Dr. Martin Luther King gave the famous, "I have a dream" speech. That speech represented the hopes and dreams of that generation. Tonight, Sen. Obama will fulfill a small part of that larger dream of Dr. King. Over the past 8 years America has endured many hardships from war to crippling economic hardships. It is time for a change.
Once again it is time for the mantle to be past to a new generation of leaders. Once again it is time for a new generation to take responsibility for the future. Once again it is time for America to dream. The realities have not changed, the hardships are the same. But the methods in which we address these issues are just as important and critical as how we solve them. We are a nation of laws, and we must continue to be the beacon of hope and of light and truth that our forefathers wanted.

Over the past half century, we've split the atom; we've spliced the gene and cured countless diseases, and on the doorsteps of curing more. We've reached for the stars and never have we been closer to having them in our grasp then now and , we must never, must never stop dreaming and reaching, and hoping. We're here at this moment in time and we do an immense thing; we must continue to say what we feel, that government, no matter what it's failures in the past and in times to come for that matter, that government can be a place where all people can come together and where no one gets left behind, and that government can and will be an instrument of good.

The United States will continue to be committed to her friends and her allies, and committed to freedom around the world. We continue in President Kennedy's words by paying any price, bearing any burden, meeting any hardship, supporting any friend, and opposing any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty.
We will continue to do what is right, and we will continue to do what his hard. Tonight the hope and dreams of a past generation have been awoke and passed.
OBAMA 08'

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