Barack Obama

i want to start by thank your presid __PUNCT__ lauren wolf __PUNCT__ for the leadership you bring to thi organ and to student all across america __PUNCT__

i also like to thank your vice_presid __PUNCT__ awai khaleel __PUNCT__ and your execut_director __PUNCT__ latoia jone __PUNCT__

i like to give a special shout __PUNCT__ out to two other colleg democrat_leader who i am lucki enough to have work on my campaign __PUNCT__ bess evan is an organ for us in iowa and ashlei baia is organ for us right here in south_carolina __PUNCT__

and i like to especi thank the coupl hundr of you who have join my colleg democrat steer committe __PUNCT__

thi is an unpreced show of support and we veri grate to have it __PUNCT__

but mostli i want to thank everi student here for the work you do all across the countri __PUNCT__

you ar organ campus __PUNCT__ you ar regist new voter __PUNCT__ and you ar breath new life into a polit that ha never need it more __PUNCT__ and for that you should all be veri proud __PUNCT__

each of you ha made the decis to come here and get involv for a reason __PUNCT__

mayb you want to make sure the colleg_educ you receiv will lead to a good_job that can pai off all those loan __PUNCT__

mayb you tire of watch our planet pollut and our climat chang forev becaus you know that you and your children will be the on deal with it __PUNCT__

mayb you travel abroad and heard peopl belittl america __PUNCT__ and mayb you felt angri becaus you know we a better countri than thi __PUNCT__ you know we not a countri that tortur peopl or lock them awai without ever tell them why __PUNCT__

you know we not a countri that alien our alli and reject diplomaci with our enemi __PUNCT__

we better than that __PUNCT__

or mayb you here becaus you had to sai goodby to a friend or a classmat when thei left to fight thi war in iraq __PUNCT__

you know how brave thei ar __PUNCT__ and you know thei done everyth that been ask of them __PUNCT__ but you also know on other thing __PUNCT__ you know that thi is a war that should never been author and never been wage __PUNCT__ and it time for that friend to come home __PUNCT__

but no matter what the reason is that brought you here __PUNCT__ you came becaus you believ that we can chang all thi __PUNCT__

you believ what wa said about thi countri in the earliest_dai of our revolut __PUNCT__ that we have it within our power to begin the world anew __PUNCT__

i want you to know that why i here too __PUNCT__

that what i have believ all my life __PUNCT__

and that why i run for presid of the unit_state __PUNCT__

i know it not an easi proposit to believ __PUNCT__

especi todai __PUNCT__

not when our polit is more concern with who up and who down than who work to solv the challeng_face our gener __PUNCT__

not when our politician allow the oil_compani to control our energi_polici __PUNCT__ and the insur_compani to control our health_care_polici __PUNCT__ and whoever got the most monei and influenc to control the agenda in washington __PUNCT__

and not when we got a __NUM__ __PUNCT__ hour new cycl that never fail to keep us post on how mani dai pari hilton will spend in jail but doesn't alwai cover the continu genocid in darfur or the recoveri effort in new orlean or the poverti that plagu too mani american street __PUNCT__

you see all thi and it easi to becom cynic __PUNCT__ to believ these same pundit when thei sai that the youth vote doesn't realli matter __PUNCT__ that colleg_student don't regist to vote and when thei do __PUNCT__ thei never go to the poll anywai __PUNCT__

and so it easi to just stai_home and give in to the proposit that on person realli can't make a differ after all __PUNCT__

don't believ it __PUNCT__

if there on thing i learn in my own life __PUNCT__ it that when you stop listen to the cynic and start try to make that differ __PUNCT__ extraordinari thing can happen __PUNCT__

a few year after i graduat from colleg i had thi crazi idea that i want to be a commun_organ __PUNCT__

my friend had all appli for job on wall_street and my mother and grandpar thought i should go to law_school __PUNCT__

but i went ahead and wrote letter to everi organ in the countri that i could think of __PUNCT__

and final __PUNCT__ thi small_group of church on the south_side of chicago wrote back and gave me a job for __MONEY__ a year help to turn around neighborhood that had been devast by steel __PUNCT__ plant_close __PUNCT__

and i can still rememb the convers i had with an older_man i had met befor i move to chicago __PUNCT__

i told him about my plan __PUNCT__ and he look at me and said __PUNCT__ let me tell someth __PUNCT__

you look like a nice clean __PUNCT__ cut young_man __PUNCT__ and you got a nice voic __PUNCT__

so let me give you a piec of advic __PUNCT__ forget thi commun_organ busi __PUNCT__

you can't chang the world __PUNCT__ and peopl won't appreci you try __PUNCT__

what you should do is go into televis broadcast __PUNCT__

i tell you __PUNCT__ you got a futur __PUNCT__

now __PUNCT__ no offens to my friend with the microphon in the back of the room __PUNCT__ but boi am i glad i didn't listen to that old man __PUNCT__

i kept go to chicago __PUNCT__ and when i got there and saw the jobless and hopeless that exist in those neighborhood __PUNCT__ i knew my job wouldn't be easi __PUNCT__

but i work_hard to build coalit with all kind of commun_leader __PUNCT__ and we kept work __PUNCT__ and we set up child_care and job_train train_program __PUNCT__ and we taught peopl to stand up to their govern when it wasn't stand up for them __PUNCT__

we didn't chang the world __PUNCT__ but we chang those neighborhood __PUNCT__ and i prove that old man wrong __PUNCT__

and i done the same_thing ever sinc __PUNCT__

when i got to the illinoi state_senat __PUNCT__ peopl said it wa too tough to take on the issu of monei in polit __PUNCT__ that i couldn't do anyth about a law that actual allow politician to pocket the monei in their campaign account for person us __PUNCT__

but i brought peopl togeth __PUNCT__ and i found a few folk on the other side of the aisl who were will to listen __PUNCT__ and we pass the first major ethic reform in twenti __PUNCT__ five year __PUNCT__

peopl told me i couldn't reform a death_penalti system that had sent __NUM__ innoc_peopl to death_row __PUNCT__

but we did that __PUNCT__

thei told me that try to pass_law to stop racial_profil would stir up too much controversi __PUNCT__

but we did that too __PUNCT__

thei doubt whether we could put govern_back on the side of averag peopl __PUNCT__ but we put tax_cut in the pocket of the work_famili who need them instead of the folk who didn't __PUNCT__

and i pass health_care_reform that insur anoth __NUM___children and parent __PUNCT__

so i want you to know that i been where you ar __PUNCT__

i look at the world as a young_man and i want to make a differ __PUNCT__

and i wa often told that chang wasn't possibl __PUNCT__

but i learn that it wa __PUNCT__ i believ that it still is __PUNCT__ and i readi to join you in chang the cours that we on by bring a new gener of leadership to the unit_state of america __PUNCT__

the reason thi presid ha fail to lead our countri is becaus he ha not been abl to unit our countri __PUNCT__

he ha polar us when he could pull us togeth __PUNCT__

he ha put what right for hi friend and support ahead of what right for america __PUNCT__

that why the experi we need in the next presid is the abil to bring thi countri togeth __PUNCT__ to find common_ground so we can meet common challeng __PUNCT__

that the kind of experi i will bring to the white_hous __PUNCT__

i know it not enough to just chang parti or even presid __PUNCT__

i know that to truli chang the wai washington work __PUNCT__ we need to build a movement of everydai american who ar commit to that chang long after the last ballot is count __PUNCT__

and that what we do in thi campaign __PUNCT__

we had more peopl sign up and contribut than ani other campaign in histori __PUNCT__

we had countless peopl show up at our event who ar come to the first polit event of their lifetim __PUNCT__

thei ar young and old __PUNCT__ rich and poor __PUNCT__ gai and straight __PUNCT__ black __PUNCT__ white __PUNCT__ latino __PUNCT__ and asian __PUNCT__

these american ar sai it time for a chang __PUNCT__

it time to turn the page __PUNCT__

it time for a new gener of leadership in washington __PUNCT__

it time for a new gener of leadership to solv thi health_care crisi onc and for all __PUNCT__

it time to move past the fail debat of yesterdai __PUNCT__ bring everyon to the tabl __PUNCT__ and final let the drug and insur_compani know that while thei get a seat at that tabl __PUNCT__ the don't get to bui everi chair __PUNCT__

i have a univers_health_care health_care_plan that will cover everi american and cut the cost of a typic famili premium by up to __MONEY__ a year __PUNCT__

it a plan that let the uninsur bui_insur that similar to the kind member of congress give themselv __PUNCT__

if you can't afford that __PUNCT__ you get a subsidi to pai for it __PUNCT__

and here someth we includ after hear about it from young_peopl across the countri __PUNCT__ if you graduat and don't find a job that provid health_insur right awai __PUNCT__ you be abl to stai on your parent __PUNCT__ insur until you twenti __PUNCT__ five __PUNCT__

i can't promis thei let you live at home for that long __PUNCT__ but i can promis you thi __PUNCT__ i will sign thi univers_health_care health_care_bill by the end of my first term in offic as your presid __PUNCT__

it time to get that done __PUNCT__

it time for a new gener of leadership to make colleg more afford for ani american who want to go __PUNCT__

it time to tell all those privat lender and bank that we not go to give them eight billion in taxpay_dollar everi year so that thei can bribe colleg to get busi give student_loan at inflat price __PUNCT__

we not go to make colleg an unafford opportun or saddl our student with a lifetim of debt __PUNCT__

it time to end those high __PUNCT__ price loan and us the save to help more kid afford a colleg_educ __PUNCT__

and it time we had a presid who fight for that propos instead of threaten to veto it __PUNCT__

the veri first bill i introduc when i got to the u. __PUNCT__ senat wa a bill to make colleg more afford and provid more grant to student __PUNCT__

that the kind of leadership we need __PUNCT__

it time for a new gener of leadership to save our gener from global catastroph __PUNCT__

it time to tell the auto and oil_industri industri_lobbyist that thei don't get to stand in the wai of higher fuel standard __PUNCT__ and renew_sourc of energi __PUNCT__ and lower carbon_emiss anymor __PUNCT__

it time to let them know that our economi __PUNCT__ our secur __PUNCT__ and our planet come befor their profit __PUNCT__

as presid __PUNCT__ i will place a cap on carbon emiss __PUNCT__ and requir compani who can't meet the cap to bui credit from those who can __PUNCT__

thi will gener million of dollar to invest in renew_sourc of energi and creat new job and even a new industri in the process __PUNCT__

i put in place a low __PUNCT__ carbon fuel standard that will take __NUM___million car __PUNCT__ worth of pollut off the road __PUNCT__

and i rais the fuel_effici standard for our car and truck becaus we know we have the technolog to do it and it time we did __PUNCT__

and on more thing __PUNCT__

it is time for a new gener of leadership to end thi war in iraq and restor american leadership in the world __PUNCT__

i oppos thi war back in __NUM__ when i wa run for the unit_state state_senat __PUNCT__

and peopl told me that posit might cost me the elect __PUNCT__

but i believ then that be a leader mean that you do what right and leav the polit asid becaus you don't get a do __PUNCT__ over on an issu as import as war __PUNCT__

i introduc a plan in __DATE__ that would alreadi start bring our troop_home by now __PUNCT__ with the goal of bring all combat brigad home by __DATE__ __PUNCT__ __NUM__ __PUNCT__

georg_bush veto a bipartisan plan just like that __PUNCT__ but he doesn't get the last word here __PUNCT__

we ar fifteen vote awai in the senat from end thi war without him __PUNCT__

so we need to keep turn up the pressur on all those republican_congressmen and senat who aren't vote the right wai __PUNCT__

and i ask you all to help me with thi __PUNCT__

you can help bring thi war to an end __PUNCT__

some of these senat ar alreadi chang their mind __PUNCT__

so i need you to call them up __PUNCT__ and write them __PUNCT__ and tell them that if thei don't switch their vote on iraq __PUNCT__ you be switch your vote next __DATE__ __PUNCT__

it time to start get our troop out of iraq so we can start focus on the grow threat from al_qaeda __PUNCT__ becaus we can't win a war against the terrorist if we on the wrong battlefield __PUNCT__

it time to turn the page on the era of bush __PUNCT__ chenei diplomaci and reach out to the rest of the world again __PUNCT__

refus to engag in tough __PUNCT__ smart diplomaci with world_leader we don't like doesn't show your strength __PUNCT__ it show your stubborn __PUNCT__ and we don't need anoth eight year of that __PUNCT__

whether it terror or climat chang __PUNCT__ global aid or the spread of weapon of mass_destruct __PUNCT__ america cannot meet the threat of thi new centuri alon __PUNCT__ but the world cannot meet them without america __PUNCT__

it time for america to show the world that we still the last __PUNCT__ best hope of earth __PUNCT__

it time for america to lead again __PUNCT__ and we need a new gener of leadership to make that happen __PUNCT__

that where you come in __PUNCT__

thi countri need you __PUNCT__

as someon who is readi to serv as your next presid __PUNCT__ i need you __PUNCT__

we need your energi __PUNCT__ your enthusiasm __PUNCT__ and your commit to thi movement for chang __PUNCT__

we need you to get involv __PUNCT__ and join or start up a student for obama chapter of your own __PUNCT__ and i like to especi ask each of you to go back to your colleg_campus and regist ten __PUNCT__ or fifteen __PUNCT__ or fifti new voter __PUNCT__

i led a voter_registr drive when i wasn't much older than you and we regist __NUM__ new voter when no on thought it wa possibl __PUNCT__

so let prove the cynic wrong again __PUNCT__

let show them you do make a differ __PUNCT__ that your vote doe count __PUNCT__ that america better start listen to the next gener of american __PUNCT__

thi is our moment to make a differ __PUNCT__

throughout america stori __PUNCT__ there have been some gener that just fade into histori __PUNCT__ and other that have chang the cours of that histori forev __PUNCT__

in the face of secess and slaveri __PUNCT__ a gener answer their presid_call to the better angel of our natur by save a union and free a peopl __PUNCT__

in the face of depress and fascism __PUNCT__ a gener answer a leader who said that fear itself wa the onli thing stand our wai by conquer that fear __PUNCT__ lift our nation from despair __PUNCT__ and liber a contin __PUNCT__

in the face of inequ and injustic __PUNCT__ a gener answer a king dream of brotherhood by take freedom ride __PUNCT__ and sit at lunch_counter __PUNCT__ and march in the street until justic roll down like water __PUNCT__ and righteous like a mighti stream __PUNCT__

and now __PUNCT__ in thi elect __PUNCT__ it is our gener turn to answer thi call __PUNCT__

it is our turn to write a new chapter in the america stori __PUNCT__

let write that next chapter __PUNCT__

let turn that next page __PUNCT__

let bring a new gener of leadership to america __PUNCT__ and let chang thi countri togeth __PUNCT__

thank you __PUNCT__