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  • THOSE VALUES ARE ENDANGERED IN

  • THE AGE OF DONALD TRUMP.

  • >> Pelley: AND THE PRESIDENT

  • OF THE UNITED STATES IS BEING

  • INTRODUCED NOW AT McCORMACK

  • PLACE IN CHICAGO.

  • LET'S LISTEN IN.

  • ♪ ♪ ♪

  • THE MORE YOU SEE THE LESS YOU

  • KNOW

  • THE LESS YOU FIND OUT AS YOU

  • GO.

  • ( CHEERS AND APPLAUSE ).

  • >> HELLO, CHICAGO!

  • IT'S GOOD TO BE HOME!

  • ( CHEERS AND APPLAUSE )

  • THANK YOU, EVERYBODY.

  • THANK YOU.

  • THANK YOU.

  • THANK YOU!

  • THANK YOU SO MUCH.

  • THANK YOU, THANK YOU.

  • THANK YOU!

  • IT'S GOOD TO BE HOME.

  • ( CHEERS )

  • THANK YOU.

  • ( CHEERS )

  • THANK YOU.

  • THANK YOU.

  • ALL RIGHT, EVERYBODY SIT DOWN.

  • WE'RE ON LIVE TV HERE.

  • I GOTTA-- I GOTTA MOVE.

  • ( CHEERS )

  • YOU CAN TELL-- YOU CAN TELL THAT

  • I'M-- YOU CAN-- YOU-- YOU CAN

  • TELL THAT-- YOU CAN TELL THAT

  • I'M A LAME DUCK BECAUSE NOBODY'S

  • FOLLOWING INSTRUCTIONS.

  • ( LAUGHTER )

  • EVERYBODY HAVE A SEAT.

  • ( CHEERS )

  • MY FELLOW AMERICANS,.

  • ( CHEERS )

  • ( APPLAUSE )

  • MICHELLE AND I HAVE BEEN SO

  • TOUCHED BY ALL THE WELL WISHES

  • THAT WE'VE RECEIVED OVER THE

  • PAST FEW WEEKS, BUT TONIGHT,

  • TONIGHT IT'S MY TURN TO SAY

  • THANKS.

  • WHETHER WE HAVE SEEN EYE TO EYE

  • OR RARELY AGREED AT ALL, MY

  • CONVERSATIONS WITH YOU, THE

  • AMERICAN PEOPLE, IN LIVING ROOMS

  • AND IN SCHOOLS, IN FARMS, ON

  • FACTORY FLOORS, AT DINERS, AND

  • ON DISTANT MILITARY OUTPOSTS,

  • THOSE CONVERSATIONS ARE WHAT

  • HAVE KEPT ME HONEST AND KEPT ME

  • INSPIRED AND KEPT ME GOING.

  • AND EVERY DAY I HAVE LEARNED

  • FROM YOU.

  • YOU MADE ME A BETTER PRESIDENT.

  • AND YOU MADE ME A BETTER MAN.

  • SO I FIRST CAME TO CHICAGO WHEN

  • I WAS IN MY EARLY 20s, AND I

  • WAS STILL TRYING TO FIGURE OUT

  • WHO I WAS, STILL SEARCHING FOR A

  • PURPOSE IN MY LIFE, AND IT WAS A

  • NEIGHBORHOOD NOT FAR FROM HERE

  • WHERE I BEGAN WORKING WITH

  • CHURCH GROUPS IN THE SHADOWS OF

  • CLOSED STEEL MILLS.

  • IT WAS ON THESE STREETS WHERE I

  • WITNESSED THE POWER OF FAITH AND

  • THE QUIET DIGNITY OF WORKING

  • PEOPLE IN THE FACE OF STRUGGLE

  • AND LOSS.

  • >> FOUR MORE YEARS!

  • FOUR MORE YEARS.

  • >> I CAN'T DO THAT.

  • >> FOUR MORE YEARS!

  • FOUR MORE YEARS!

  • NOW, THIS IS WHERE I LEARNED

  • THAT CHANGE ONLY HAPPENS WHEN

  • ORDINARY PEOPLE GET INVOLVED AND

  • THEY GET ENGAGED AND THEY COME

  • TOGETHER TO DEMAND IT.

  • AFTER EIGHT YEARS AS YOUR

  • PRESIDENT, I STILL BELIEVE THAT.

  • AND IT'S NOT JUST MY BELIEF.

  • IT'S THE BEATING HEART OF OUR

  • AMERICAN IDEA, OUR BOLD

  • EXPERIMENT IN SELF-GOVERNMENT.

  • IT'S THE CONVICTIONS THAT WE ARE

  • ALL CREATED EQUAL, ENDOWED BY

  • OUR CREATOR WITH CERTAIN

  • UNALIENABLE RIGHT, AMONG THEM

  • LIFE, LIBERTY, AND THE PURSUIT

  • OF HAPPINESS.

  • IT'S THE INSISTENCE THAT THESE

  • RIGHTS, WHILE SELF-EVIDENT, HAVE

  • NEVER BEEN SELF-EXECUTING.

  • THAT WE, THE PEOPLE, THROUGH THE

  • INSTRUMENT OF OUR DEMOCRACY, CAN

  • FORM A MORE PERFECT UNION.

  • WHAT A RADICAL IDEA.

  • THE GREAT GIFT THAT OUR FOUNDERS

  • GAVE TO US.

  • THE FREEDOM TO CHASE OUR

  • INDIVIDUAL DREAMS THROUGH OUR

  • SWEAT AND TOIL AND IMAGINATION,

  • AND THE IMPERATIVE TO STRIVE

  • TOGETHER AS WELL, TO ACHIEVE A

  • COMMON GOOD, A GREATER GOOD.

  • FOR 240 YEARS, OUR NATION'S CALL

  • TO CITIZENSHIP HAS GIVEN WORK

  • AND PURPOSE TO EACH NEW

  • GENERATION.

  • IT'S WHAT LED PATRIOTS TO CHOOSE

  • REPUBLIC OVER TYRANNY.

  • PIONEERS TO TREK WEST.

  • SLAVES TO BRAVE THAT MAKESHIFT

  • RAILROAD TO FREEDOM.

  • IT'S WHAT PULLED IMMIGRANTS AND

  • REFUGEES ACROSS OCEANS AND THE

  • RIO GRANDE.

  • ( CHEERS )

  • IT'S WHAT PUSHED WOMEN TO REACH

  • FOR THE BALLOT.

  • IT'S WHAT POWERED WORKERS TO

  • ORGANIZE.

  • IT'S WHY G.I.s GAVE THEIR

  • LIVES ON OMAHA BEACH AND IWO

  • JIMA, IRAQ, AND AFGHANISTAN.

  • AND WHY MEN AND WOMEN FROM SELMA

  • TO STONEWALL WERE PREPARED TO

  • GIVE THEIRS AS WELL.

  • ( CHEERS )

  • ( APPLAUSE )

  • SO THAT'S WHAT WE MEAN WHEN WE

  • SAY AMERICA'S EXCEPTIONAL.

  • NOT THAT OUR NATION'S BEEN

  • FLAWLESS FROM THE START BUT THAT

  • WE HAVE SHOWN THE CAPACITY TO

  • CHANGE AND MAKE LIFE BETTER FOR

  • THOSE WHO FOLLOW.

  • YES, OUR PROGRESS HAS BEEN

  • UNEVEN.

  • THE WORK OF DEMOCRACY HAS ALWAYS

  • BEEN HARD.

  • IT'S ALWAYS BEEN CONTENTIOUS.

  • SOMETIMES IT'S BEEN BLOODY.

  • FOR EVERY TWO STEPS FORWARD, IT

  • OFTEN FEELS WE TAKE ONE STEP

  • BACK.

  • BUT THE LONG SWEEP OF AMERICA

  • HAS BEEN DEFINED BY FORWARD

  • MOTION, A CONSTANT WIDENING OF

  • OUR FOUNDING CREED TO EMBRACE

  • ALL, AND NOT JUST SOME.

  • ( APPLAUSE ).

  • ( CHEERS )

  • IF I HAD TOLD YOU EIGHT YEARS

  • AGO THAT AMERICA WOULD REVERSE A

  • GREAT RECESSION, REBOOT OUR AUTO

  • INDUSTRY, AND UNLEASH THE

  • LONGEST STRETCH OF JOB CREATION

  • IN OUR HISTORY.

  • ( CHEERS AND APPLAUSE )

  • IF I HAD TOLD YOU THAT WE WOULD

  • OPEN UP A NEW CHAPTER WITH THE

  • CUBAN PEOPLE, SHUT DOWN IRAN'S

  • NUCLEAR WEAPONS PROGRAM WITHOUT

  • FIRING A SHOT, TAKE OUT THE

  • MASTERMIND OF 9/11, IF I HAD

  • TOLD YOU THAT WE WOULD WIN

  • MARRIAGE EQUALITY AND SECURE THE

  • RIGHT TO HEALTH INSURANCE FOR

  • ANOTHER 20 MILLION OF OUR FELLOW

  • CITIZENS.

  • ( CHEERS AND APPLAUSE )

  • IF I HAD TOLD YOU ALL THAT, YOU

  • MIGHT HAVE SAID OUR SIGHTS WERE

  • SET A LITTLE TOO HIGH.

  • BUT THAT'S WHAT WE DID.

  • ( CHEERS )

  • THAT'S WHAT YOU DID.

  • YOU WERE THE CHANGE.

  • YOU ANSWERED PEOPLE'S HOPES, AND

  • BECAUSE OF YOU, BY ALMOST EVERY

  • MEASURE, AMERICA IS A BETTER,

  • STRONGER PLACE THAN IT WAS WHEN

  • WE STARTED.

  • ( APPLAUSE )

  • IN 10 DAYS, THE WORLD WILL

  • WITNESS A HALLMARK OF OUR

  • DEMOCRACY-- NO, NO, NO.

  • THE PEACEFUL TRANSFER OF POWER

  • FROM ONE FREELY ELECTED

  • PRESIDENT TO THE NEXT.

  • ( APPLAUSE )

  • I COMMITTED TO PRESIDENT-ELECT

  • TRUMP THAT MY ADMINISTRATION

  • WOULD ENSURE THE SMOOTHEST

  • POSSIBLE TRANSITION, JUST AS

  • PRESIDENT BUSH DID FOR ME.

  • ( APPLAUSE )

  • BECAUSE IT'S UP TO ALL OF US TO

  • MAKE SURE OUR GOVERNMENT CAN

  • HELP US MEET THE MANY CHALLENGES

  • WE STILL FACE.

  • WE HAVE WHAT WE NEED TO DO SO.

  • WE HAVE EVERYTHING WE NEED TO

  • MEET THOSE CHALLENGES.

  • AFTER ALL, WE REMAIN THE

  • WEALTHIEST, MOST POWERFUL AND

  • MOST RESPECTED NATION ON EARTH.

  • OUR YOUTH, OUR DRIVE, OUR

  • DIVERSITY AND OPENNESS, OUR

  • BOUNDLESS CAN CAPACITY FOR RISK

  • AND REINVENTION MEANS THAT THE

  • FUTURE SHOULD BE OURS.

  • BUT THAT POTENTIAL WILL ONLY BE

  • REALIZED IF OUR DEMOCRACY WORKS.

  • ONLY IF OUR POLITICS BETTER

  • REFLECTS THE DECENCY OF OUR

  • PEOPLE.

  • ( APPLAUSE )

  • ONLY IF ALL OF US, REGARDLESS OF

  • PARTY AFFILIATION OR PARTICULAR

  • INTERESTS, HELP RESTORE THE

  • SENSE OF COMMON PURPOSE THAT WE

  • SO BADLY NEED RIGHT NOW.

  • THAT'S WHAT I WANT TO FOCUS ON

  • TONIGHT, THE STATE OF OUR

  • DEMOCRACY.

  • UNDERSTAND DEMOCRACY DOES NOT

  • REQUIRE UNIFORMITY.

  • OUR FOUNDERS ARGUED, THEY

  • QUARRELED, AND EVENTUALLY THEY

  • COMPROMISED.

  • THEY EXPECTED US TO DO THE SAME.

  • BUT THEY KNEW THAT DEMOCRACY

  • DOES REQUIRE A BASIC SENSE OF

  • SOLIDARITY.

  • THE IDEA THAT FOR ALL OUR

  • OUTWARD DIFFERENCES WE'RE ALL IN

  • THIS TOGETHER, THAT WE RISE OR

  • FALL AS ONE.

  • ( APPLAUSE )

  • THERE HAVE BEEN MOMENTS

  • THROUGHOUT OUR HISTORY THAT

  • THREATENED THAT SOLIDARITY.

  • THE BEGINNING OF THIS CENTURY

  • HAS BEEN ONE OF THOSE TIMES.

  • A SHRINKING WORLD, GROWING

  • INEQUALITY, DEMOGRAPHIC CHANGE

  • AND THE SPECTER OF TERRORISM.

  • THESE FORCES HAVEN'T JUST TESTED

  • OUR SECURITY AND OUR PROSPERITY

  • BUT ARE TESTING OUR DEMOCRACY AS

  • WELL.

  • AND HOW WE MEET THESE CHALLENGES

  • TO OUR DEMOCRACY WILL DETERMINE

  • OUR ABILITY TO EDUCATE OUR KIDS

  • AND CREATE GOOD JOBS AND PROTECT

  • OUR HOMELAND.

  • IN OTHER WORDS, IT WILL

  • DETERMINE OUR FUTURE.

  • TO BEGIN WITH, OUR DEMOCRACY

  • WON'T WORK WITHOUT A SENSE THAT

  • EVERYONE HAS ECONOMIC

  • OPPORTUNITY.

  • AND THE GOOD NEWS IS THAT TODAY,

  • THE ECONOMY IS GROWING AGAIN.

  • WAGES, INCOMES, HOME VALUES, AND

  • RETIREMENT ACCOUNTS ARE ALL

  • RISING AGAIN.

  • POVERTY IS FALLING AGAIN.

  • ( APPLAUSE )

  • THE WEALTHY ARE PAYING A FAIR

  • SHARE OF TAXES, EVEN AS WANT

  • STOCK MARKET SHATTERS RECORD.

  • THE UNEMPLOYMENT RATE IS NEAR A

  • 10-YEAR LOW.

  • THE UNINSURED RATE HAS NEVER,

  • EVER BEEN LOWER.

  • ( CHEERS AND APPLAUSE )

  • HEALTH CARE COSTS ARE RISING AT

  • THE LOWEST RATE IN 50 YEARS, AND

  • I'VE SAID AND I MEAN IT-- IF

  • ANYONE CAN PUT TOGETHER A PLAN

  • THAT IS DEMONSTRABLY BETTER THAN

  • THAN THE IMPROVEMENTS WE'VE MADE

  • TO OUR HEALTH CARE SYSTEM THAT

  • COVERS AS MANY PEOPLE AT LESS

  • COST, I WILL PUBLICLY SUPPORT

  • IT.

  • ( CHEERS AND APPLAUSE )

  • BECAUSE THAT, AFTER ALL, IS WHY

  • WE SERVE.

  • NOT TO SCORE POINTS OR TAKE

  • CREDIT BUT TO MAKE PEOPLE'S

  • LIVES BETTER.

  • BUT FOR ALL THE REAL PROGRESS

  • THAT WE'VE MADE, WE KNOW IT'S

  • NOT ENOUGH.

  • OUR ECONOMY DOESN'T WORK AS WELL

  • OR GROW AS FAST WHEN A FEW

  • PROSPER AT THE EXPENSE OF A

  • MIDDLE CLASS AND LADDERS FOR

  • FOLKS WHO WANT TO GET INTO THE

  • MIDDLE CLASS.

  • THAT'S THE ECONOMIC ARGUMENT BUT

  • STARK INEQUALITY IS ALSO

  • CORROSIVE TO OUR DEMOCRATIC ID

  • IDEA.

  • WHILE THE TOP 1% HAS AMASSED A

  • BIGGER SHARE OF WEALTH AND

  • INCOME, TOO MANY OF OUR FAMILIES

  • IN INNER CITIES AND IN RURAL

  • COUNTIES HAVE BEEN LEFT BEHIND.

  • THE LAID OFF FACTORY WORKER, THE

  • WAITRESS OR HEALTH CARE WORKER

  • WHO IS JUST BARELY GETTING BY

  • AND STRUGGLING TO PAY THE BILLS,

  • CONVINCED THAT THE GAME IS FIXED

  • AGAINST THEM, THAT THEIR

  • GOVERNMENT ONLY SERVES THE

  • INTERESTS OF THE POWERFUL.

  • THAT'S A RECIPE FOR MORE

  • CYNICISM AND POLARIZATION IN OUR

  • POLITICS.

  • THERE ARE NO QUICK FIXES TO THIS

  • LONG-TERM TREND.

  • I AGREE.

  • OUR TRADE SHOULD BE FAIR AND NOT

  • JUST FREE.

  • BUT THE NEXT WAVE OF ECONOMIC

  • DISLOCATIONS WON'T COME FROM

  • OVERSEAS.

  • IT WILL COME FROM THE RELENTLESS

  • PACE OF AUTOMATION THAT MAKES A

  • LOT OF GOOD, MIDDLE-CLASS JOBS

  • OBSOLETE.

  • AND SO WE'RE GOING TO HAVE TO

  • FORGE A NEW SOCIAL COMPACT TO

  • GUARANTEE ALL OUR KIDS THE

  • EDUCATION THEY NEED.

  • ( APPLAUSE )

  • TO GIVE WORKERS THE POWER TO

  • UNIONIZE FOR BETTER WAGES.

  • TO UPDATE THE SOCIAL SAFETY NET

  • TO REFLECT THE WAY WE LIVE NOW.

  • AND MAKE MORE REFORMS TO THE TAX

  • CODES SO CORPORATIONS AND

  • INDIVIDUALS WHO RECEIPT MOST

  • FROM THIS NEW ECONOMY DON'T

  • AVOID THEIR OBLIGATIONS TO THE

  • COUNTRY THAT'S MADE THEIR VERY

  • SUCCESS POSSIBLE.

  • ( APPLAUSE )

  • WE CAN ARGUE ABOUT HOW TO BEST

  • ACHIEVE THESE GOALS, BUT WE

  • CAN'T BE COMPLACENT ABOUT THE

  • GOALS THEMSELVES.

  • FOR IF WE DON'T CREATE

  • OPPORTUNITY FOR ALL PEOPLE, THE

  • DISAFFECTION AND DIVISION THAT

  • HAS STALLED OUR PROGRESS WILL

  • ONLY SHARPEN IN YEARS TO COME.

  • THERE'S A SECOND THREAT TO OUR

  • DEMOCRACY, AND THIS ONE IS AS

  • OLD AS OUR NATION ITSELF.

  • AFTER MY ELECTION, THERE WAS

  • TALK OF A POST-RACIAL AMERICA,

  • AND SUCH A VISION, HOWEVER WELL

  • INTENDED, WAS NEVER REALISTIC.

  • RACE REMAINS A POTENT AND OFTEN

  • DIVISIVE FORCE IN OUR SOCIETY.

  • NOW, I'VE LIVED LONG ENOUGH TO

  • KNOW THAT RACE RELATIONS ARE

  • BETTER THAN THEY WERE 10 OR 20

  • OR 30 YEARS AGO, NO MATTER WHAT

  • SOME FOLKS SAY.

  • ( APPLAUSE )

  • YOU CAN SEE IT NOT JUST IN

  • STATISTICS.

  • YOU SEE IT IN THE ATTITUDES OF

  • YOUNG AMERICANS ACROSS THE

  • POLITICAL SPECTRUM.

  • BUT WE'RE NOT WHERE WE NEED TO

  • BE.

  • AND ALL OF US HAVE MORE WORK TO

  • DO.

  • IF EVERY ECONOMIC ISSUE IS

  • FRAMED AS A STRUGGLE BETWEEN A

  • HARDWORKING WHITE MIDDLE CLASS

  • AND AN UNDESERVING MINORITY,

  • THEN WORKERS OF ALL SHADES ARE

  • GOING TO BE LEFT FIGHTING FOR

  • SCRAPS, WHILE THE WEALTHY

  • WITHDRAW FURTHER INTO THEIR

  • PRIVATE ENCLAVES.

  • ( CHEERS AND APPLAUSE )

  • IF WE'RE UNWILLING TO INVEST IN

  • THE CHILDREN OF IMMIGRANTS JUST

  • BECAUSE THEY DON'T LOOK LIKE US,

  • WE WILL DIMINISH THE PROSPECTS

  • OF OUR OWN CHILDREN BECAUSE

  • THOSE BROWN KIDS WILL REPRESENT

  • A LARGER AND LARGER SHARE OF

  • AMERICA'S WORKFORCE.

  • ( CHEERS AND APPLAUSE )

  • AND WE HAVE SHOWN THAT OUR

  • ECONOMY DOESN'T HAVE TO BE A

  • ZERO-SUM GAME.

  • LAST YEAR, INCOMES ROSE FOR ALL

  • RACES, ALL AGE GROUPS, FOR MEN

  • AND FOR WOMEN.

  • SO.

  • WE'RE GOING TO BE SERIOUS ABOUT

  • RACE GOING FORWARD, WE NEED TO

  • UPHOLD LAWS AGAINST

  • DISCRIMINATION IN HIRING AND IN

  • HOUSING AND IN EDUCATION AND IN

  • THE CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM.

  • THAT IS WHAT OUR CONSTITUTION

  • AND OUR HIGHEST IDEALS REQUIRE.

  • ( APPLAUSE )

  • BUT LAWS ALONE WON'T BE ENOUGH.

  • HEARTS MUST CHANGE.

  • THEY WON'T CHANGE OVERNIGHT.

  • SOCIAL ATTITUDES OFTENTIMES TAKE

  • GENERATIONS TO CHANGE, BUT IF

  • OUR DEMOCRACY IS TO WORK THE WAY

  • IT SHOULD IN THIS INCREASINGLY

  • DIVERSE NATION, THEN EACH ONE OF

  • US NEED TO TRY TO HEED THE

  • ADVICE OF A GREAT CHARACTER IN

  • AMERICAN FICTION, ATTICUS FINCH,

  • WHO SAID, "YOU NEVER REALLY

  • UNDERSTAND A PERSON UNTIL YOU

  • CAN CONSIDER THINGS FROM HIS

  • POINT OF VIEW, UNTIL YOU CLIMB

  • INTO HIS SKIN AND WALK AROUND IN

  • IT."

  • FOR BLACKS AND OTHER MINORITY

  • GROUPS, THAT MEANS TYING OUR OWN

  • VERY REAL STRUGGLES FOR JUSTICE

  • TO THE CHALLENGES THAT A LOT OF

  • PEOPLE IN THIS COUNTRY FACE, NOT

  • ONLY THE REFUGEE OR THE

  • IMMIGRANT OR THE RURAL POOR OR

  • THE TRANSGENDER AMERICAN BUT

  • ALSO THE MIDDLE-AGED WHITE GUY

  • WHO FROM THE OUTSIDE MAY SEEM

  • LIKE HE'S GOT ADVANTAGES, BUT

  • HAS SEEN HIS WORLD UPENDED BY

  • ECONOMIC AND CULTURAL AND

  • TECHNOLOGICAL CHANGE.

  • WE HAVE TO PAY ATTENTION AND

  • LISTEN.

  • ( APPLAUSE )

  • FOR WHITE AMERICANS, IT MEANS

  • ACKNOWLEDGING THAT THE AFFECTS

  • OF SLAVERY AND JIM CROW DIDN'T

  • SUDDENLY VANISH IN THE 60s.

  • ( APPLAUSE )

  • THAT WHEN MINORITY GROUPS VOICE

  • DISCONTENT, THEY'RE NOT JUST

  • ENGAGING IN REVERSE RACISM OR

  • PRACTICING POLITICAL CORRECT

  • CORRECTNESS.

  • WHEN THEY WAGE PEACEFUL PROTESTS

  • THEY'RE NOT DEMANDING SPECIAL

  • TREATMENT BUT THE EQUAL

  • TREATMENT THAT OUR FOUNDERS

  • PROMISED.

  • ( CHEERS AND APPLAUSE )

  • FOR NATIVE-BORN AMERICANS, FOR

  • NATIVE-BORN AMERICANS, IT MEANS

  • REMINDING OURSELVES THAT THE

  • STEREOTYPES ABOUT IMMIGRANTS

  • TODAY WERE SAID ALMOST WORD FOR

  • WORD ABOUT THE IRISH AND

  • ITALIANS AND POLS, WHO IT WAS

  • SAID WERE GOING TO DESTROY THE

  • FUNDAMENTAL CHARACTER OF

  • AMERICA.

  • AND AS IT TURNED OUT, AMERICA

  • WASN'T WEAKENED BY THE PRESENCE

  • OF THESE NEWCOMERS.

  • THESE NEWCOMERS EMBRACED THIS

  • NATION'S CREED, AND THIS NATION

  • WAS STRENGTHENED.

  • ( APPLAUSE )

  • SO REGARDLESS OF THE STATION

  • THAT WE OCCUPY, WE ALL HAVE TO

  • TRY HARDER.

  • WE ALL HAVE TO START WITH THE

  • PREMISE THAT EACH OF OUR FELLOW

  • CITIZENS LOVES THIS COUNTRY JUST

  • AS MUCH AS WE DO.

  • THAT THEY VALUE HARD WORK AND

  • FAMILY, JUST LIKE WE DO.

  • THAT THEIR CHILDREN ARE JUST AS

  • CURIOUS AND HOPEFUL AND WORTHY

  • OF LOVE AS OUR OWN.

  • ( APPLAUSE )

  • AND THAT'S NOT EASY TO DO.

  • FOR TOO MANY OF US, IT'S BECOME

  • SAFER TO RETREAT INTO OUR OWN

  • BUBBLES, WHETHER IN OUR

  • NEIGHBORHOODS OR ON COLLEGE

  • CAMPUSES OR PLACES OF WORSHIP

  • OR, ESPECIALLY, OUR SOCIAL MEDIA

  • FEEDS, SURROUNDED BY PEOPLE WHO

  • LOOK LIKE US AND SHARE THE SAME

  • POLITICAL VIEWS, OUR ASSUMPTIONS

  • AND THE RISE OF NAKED

  • PARTISANSHIP, INCREASING

  • ECONOMIC AND REGIONAL

  • STRATIFICATION, THE SPLINTERING

  • OF OUR MEDIA INTO A CHANNEL FOR

  • EVERY TASTE.

  • ALL THIS MAKES THIS GREAT

  • SORTING SEEM NATURAL, EVEN

  • INEVITABLE.

  • AND INCREASINGLY, WE BECOME SO

  • SECURE IN OUR BUBBLES THAT WE

  • START ACCEPTING ONLY

  • INFORMATION, WHETHER IT'S TRUE

  • OR NOT, THAT FITS OUR OPINIONS

  • INSTEAD OF BASING OUR OPINIONS

  • ON THE EVIDENCE THAT IS OUT

  • THERE.

  • ( APPLAUSE )

  • AND THIS TREND REPRESENTS A

  • THIRD THREAT TO OUR DEMOCRACY.

  • LOOK, POLITICS IS A BATTLE OF

  • IDEAS.

  • THAT'S HOW OUR DEMOCRACY WAS

  • DESIGNED.

  • IN THE COURSE OF A HEALTHY

  • DEBATE, WE PRIORITIZE DIFFERENT

  • GOALS AND THE DIFFERENT MEANS OF

  • REACHING THEM.

  • BUT WITHOUT SOME COMMON BASELINE

  • OF FACTS, WITHOUT A WILLINGNESS

  • TO ADMIT NEW INFORMATION AND

  • CONCEDE THAT YOUR OPPONENT MIGHT

  • BE MAKING A FAIR POINT, AND THAT

  • SCIENCE AND REASON MATTER, THEN

  • WE'RE GOING TO KEEP TALKING PAST

  • EACH OTHER.

  • ( APPLAUSE )

  • AND WE'LL MAKE COMMON GROUND AND

  • COMPROMISE IMPOSSIBLE.

  • AND ISN'T THAT PART OF WHAT SO

  • OFTEN MAKES POLITICS

  • DISPIRITING?

  • HOW CAN ELECTED OFFICIALS RAGE

  • ABOUT DEFICITS WHEN WE PROPOSE

  • TO SPEND MONEY ON PRESCHOOL FOR

  • KIDS BUT NOT WHEN WE'RE CUTTING

  • TAXES FOR CORPORATIONS?

  • ( APPLAUSE )

  • HOW DO WE EXCIEWZ ETHICAL LAPSES

  • IN OUR OWN PARTY BUT POUNCE WHEN

  • THE OTHER PARTY DOES THE SAME

  • THING?

  • IT'S NOT JUST DISHONEST, THIS

  • SELECTIVE SORTING OF THE FACTS.

  • IT'S SELF-DEFEATING.

  • BECAUSE, AS MY MOM USED TO TELL

  • ME, REALITY HAS A WAY OF

  • CATCHING UP WITH YOU.

  • TAKE THE CHALLENGE OF CLIMATE

  • CHANGE.

  • IN JUST EIGHT YEARS, WE'VE

  • HALVED OUR DEPENDENCE ON FOREIGN

  • OIL.

  • WE'VE DOUBLED OUR RENEWABLE

  • ENERGY.

  • WE'VE LED THE WORLD TO AN

  • AGREEMENT THAT HAS THE PROMISE

  • TO SAVE THIS PLANET.

  • ( CHEERS AND APPLAUSE )

  • BUT WITHOUT BOLDER ACTION, OUR

  • CHILDREN WON'T V HAVE TIME TO

  • DEBATE THE EXISTENCE OF CLIMATE

  • CHANGE.

  • THEY'LL BE BUSY DEALING WITH ITS

  • EFFECTS, MORE ENVIRONMENTAL

  • DISASTERS, MORE ECONOMIC

  • DISRUPTIONS, WAVES OF CLIMATE

  • REFUGEES SEEKING SANCTUARY.

  • AND WE CAN AND SHOULD ARGUE

  • ABOUT THE BEST APPROACH TO SOLVE

  • THE PROBLEM, BUT TO SIMPLY DENY

  • THE PROBLEM NOT ONLY BETRAYS

  • FUTURE GENERATIONS.

  • IT BETRAYS THE ESSENTIAL SPIRIT

  • OF THIS COUNTRY, THE ESSENTIAL

  • SPIRIT OF INNOVATION AND

  • PRACTICAL PROBLEM SOLVING THAT

  • GUIDED OUR FOUNDERS.

  • ( CHEERS AND APPLAUSE )

  • IT IS THAT SPIRIT, IT IS THAT

  • SPIRIT BORNE OF THE

  • ENLIGHTENMENT THAT MADE US AN

  • ECONOMIC POWERHOUSE, THE SPIRIT

  • THAT TOOK FLIGHT AT KITTY HAWK

  • AND CAPE CANAVERAL.

  • THE SPIRIT THAT CURES DISEASE

  • AND PUT A COMPUTER IN EVERY

  • POCKET.

  • IT'S THAT SPIRIT, A FAITH IN

  • REASON AND ENTERPRISE, AND THE

  • PRIMACY OF RIGHT OVER MIGHT THAT

  • ALLOWED US TO RESIST THE LURE OF

  • FASCISM AND TYRANNY DURING THE

  • GREAT DEPRESSION, THAT ALLOWED

  • US TO BUILD A POST-WORLD WAR II

  • ORDER WITH OTHER DEMOCRACIES, AN

  • ORDER BASED NOT JUST ON MILITARY

  • POWER OR NATIONAL AFFILIATIONS,

  • BUT BUILT ON PRINCIPLES, THE

  • RULE OF LAW, HUMAN RIGHTS,

  • FREEDOM OF RELIGION AND SPEECH

  • AND ASSEMBLY, AND AN INDEPENDENT

  • PRESS.

  • ( APPLAUSE )

  • THAT ORDER IS NOW BEING

  • CHALLENGED, FIRST BY VIOLENT

  • FANATICS WHO CLAIM TO SPEAK FOR

  • ISLAM.

  • MORE RECENTLY BY AUTOCRATS IN

  • FOREIGN CAPITALS WHO SEE FREE

  • MARKETS AND OPEN DEMOCRACIES AND

  • CIVIL SOCIETY ITSELF AS A THREAT

  • TO THEIR POWER.

  • THE PERIL EACH POSES TO OUR

  • DEMOCRACY IS MORE FAR REACHING

  • THAN A CAR BOMB OR A MISSILE.

  • THEY REPRESENT THE FEAR OF

  • CHANGE, THE FEAR OF PEOPLE WHO

  • LOOK OR SPEAK OR PRAY

  • DIFFERENTLY, A CONTEMPT FOR THE

  • RULE OF LAW THAT HOLDS LEADERS

  • ACCOUNTABLE, AN INTOLERANCE OF

  • DISSENT AND FREE THOUGHT, A

  • BELIEF THAT THE SWORD OR THE GUN

  • OR THE BOMB OR THE PROPAGANDA

  • MACHINE IS THE ULTIMATE ARBITER

  • OF WHAT'S TRUE AND WHAT'S RIGHT.

  • BECAUSE THE EXTRAORDINARY

  • COURAGE OF OUR MEN AND WOMEN IN

  • UNIFORM, BECAUSE OF OUR

  • INTELLIGENCE OFFICERS AND LAW

  • ENFORCEMENT AND DIPLOMATS WHO

  • SUPPORT OUR TROOPS, NO FOREIGN

  • TERRORIST ORGANIZATION HAS

  • SUCCESSFULLY PLANNED AND

  • EXECUTED AN ATTACK ON OUR

  • HOMELAND THESE PAST EIGHT YEARS.

  • ( CHEERS AND APPLAUSE )

  • AND ALTHOUGH BOSTON AND ORLANDO

  • AND SAN BERNARDINO AND FORT HOOD

  • REMIND US OF HOW DANGEROUS

  • RADICALIZATION CAN BE, OUR LAW

  • ENFORCEMENT AGENCIES ARE MORE

  • EFFECTIVE AND VIGILANT THAN

  • EVER.

  • WE HAVE TAKEN OUT TENS OF

  • THOUSANDS OF TERRORISTS,

  • INCLUDING BIN LADEN.

  • ( CHEERS AND APPLAUSE )

  • THE GLOBAL COALITION WE'RE

  • LEADING AGAINST ISIL HAS TAKEN

  • OUT THEIR LEADERS AND TAKEN AWAY

  • ABOUT HALF THEIR TERRITORY.

  • ISIL WILL BE DESTROYED, AND NO

  • ONE WHO THREATENS AMERICA WILL

  • EVER BE SAFE.

  • ( APPLAUSE )

  • AND ALL WHO SERVE OR HAVE

  • SERVED, IT HAS BEEN THE HONOR OF

  • MY LIFETIME TO BE YOUR COMMANDER

  • IN CHIEF.

  • AND WE ALL OWE YOU A DEEP DEBT

  • OF GRATITUDE.

  • ( CHEERS AND APPLAUSE )

  • BUT PROTECTING OUR WAY OF LIFE,

  • THAT'S NOT JUST THE JOB OF OUR

  • MILITARY.

  • DEMOCRACY CAN BUCKLE WHEN IT

  • GIVES IN TO FEAR.

  • SO JUST AS WE, AS CITIZENS, MUST

  • REMAIN VIGILANT AGAINST EXTERNAL

  • AGGRESSION, WE MUST GUARD

  • AGAINST A WEAKENING OF THE

  • VALUES THAT MAKE US WHO WE ARE.

  • ( APPLAUSE )

  • AND THAT'S FOR THE PAST EIGHT

  • YEARS, I'VE WORKED TO PUT THE

  • FIGHT AGAINST TERRORISM ON A

  • FIRMER LEGAL FOOTING.

  • THAT'S WHY WE'VE ENDED TORTURE,

  • WORKED TO CLOSE GITMO, REFORMED

  • OUR LAWS GOVERNING SURVEILLANCE

  • TO PROTECT PRIVACY AND CIVIL

  • LIBERTIES.

  • THAT'S WHY I REJECT

  • DISCRIMINATION AGAINST MUSLIM

  • AMERICANS.

  • ( CHEERS AND APPLAUSE )

  • WHO ARE JUST AS PATRIOTIC AS WE

  • ARE.

  • THAT'S WHY, THAT'S WHY WE CANNOT

  • WITHDRAW-- THAT'S WHY WE CANNOT

  • WITHDRAW FROM BIG GLOBAL FIGHTS

  • TO EXPAND DEMOCRACY AND HUMAN

  • RIGHTS AND WOMEN'S RIGHTS AND

  • L.G.B.T. RIGHTS.

  • NO MATTER HOW IMPERFECT OUR

  • EFFORTS, NO MATTER HOW EXPEDIENT

  • IGNORING SUCH VALUES MAY SEEM,

  • THAT'S PART OF DEFENDING AMER

  • AMERICA.

  • FOR THE FIGHT AGAINST EXTREMISM

  • AND INTOLERANCE AND SECTARIANISM

  • AND CHAUVINISM, ARE A PIECE OF A

  • FIGHT AGAINST AUTHORITARIANISM

  • AND NATIONALIST AGGRESSION.

  • IF THE SCOPE OF FREEDOM AND

  • RESPECT FOR THE RULE OF LAW

  • SHRINKS AROUND THE WORLD, THE

  • LIKELIHOOD OF WAR WITHIN AND

  • BETWEEN NATIONS INCREASES.

  • AND OUR OWN FREEDOMS WILL

  • EVENTUALLY BE THREATENED.

  • SO LET'S BE VIGILANT BUT NOT

  • AFRAID.

  • ( APPLAUSE )

  • ISIL WILL TRY TO KILL INNOCENT

  • PEOPLE, BUT THEY CANNOT DEFEAT

  • AMERICA UNLESS WE BETRAY OUR

  • CONSTITUTION AND OUR PRINCIPLES

  • IN THE FIGHT.

  • ( APPLAUSE )

  • RIVALS LIKE RUSSIA OR CHINA

  • CANNOT MATCH OUR INFLUENCE

  • AROUND THE WORLD UNLESS WE GIVE

  • UP WHAT WE STAND FOR AND TURN

  • OURSELVES INTO JUST ANOTHER BIG

  • COUNTRY THAT BULLIES SMALLER

  • NEIGHBORS.

  • WHICH BRINGS ME TO MY FINAL

  • POINT.

  • OUR DEMOCRACY, OUR DEMOCRACY IS

  • THREATENED WHENEVER WE TAKE IT

  • FOR GRANTED.

  • ( APPLAUSE )

  • ALL OF US, REGARDLESS OF PARTY,

  • SHOULD BE THROWING OURSELVES

  • INTO THE TASK OF REBUILDING OUR

  • DEMOCRATIC INSTITUTIONS.

  • ( APPLAUSE )

  • WHEN VOTING RATES IN AMERICA ARE

  • SOME OF THE LOWEST AMONG

  • ADVANCED DEMOCRACIES, WE SHOULD

  • BE MAKING IT EASIER NOT HARDER

  • TO VOTE.

  • ( CHEERS AND APPLAUSE )

  • WHEN TRUST IN OUR INSTITUTIONS

  • IS LOW, WE SHOULD REDUCE THE

  • CORROSIVE INFLUENCE OF MONEY IN

  • OUR POLITICS AND INSIST ON THE

  • PRINCIPLES OF TRANSPARENCY AND

  • ETHICS AND PUBLIC SERVICE.

  • WHEN CONGRESS IS DYSFUNCTIONAL,

  • WE SHOULD DRAW OUR CONGRESSIONAL

  • DISTRICTS TO ENCOURAGE

  • POLITICIANS TO CATER TO COMMON

  • SENSE AND NOT RIGID EXTREMES.

  • ( APPLAUSE )

  • BUT REMEMBER, NONE OF THIS

  • HAPPENS ON ITS OWN.

  • ALL OF THIS DEPENDS ON OUR

  • PARTICIPATION, ON EACH OF US

  • ACCEPTING THE RESPONSIBILITY OF

  • CITIZENSHIP, REGARDLESS OF WHICH

  • WAY THE PENDULUM OF POWER

  • HAPPENS TO BE SWINGING.

  • OUR CONSTITUTION IS A

  • REMARKABLE, BEAUTIFUL GIFT.

  • BUT IT'S REALLY JUST A PIECE OF

  • PARCHMENT.

  • IT HAS NO POWER ON ITS OWN.

  • WE, THE PEOPLE, GIVE IT POWER.

  • ( APPLAUSE )

  • WE, THE PEOPLE GIVE IT MEANING

  • WITH OUR PARTICIPATION AND WITH

  • THE CHOICES THAT WE MAKE AND THE

  • ALLIANCES THAT WE FORGE, WHETHER

  • OR NOT WE STAND UP FOR OUR

  • FREEDOMS, WHETHER OR NOT WE

  • RESPECT AND ENFORCE THE RULE OF

  • LAW.

  • THAT'S UP TO US.

  • AMERICA IS NO FRAGILE THING, BUT

  • THE GAINS OF OUR LONG JOURNEY TO

  • FREEDOM ARE NOT ASSURED.

  • IN HIS OWN FAREWELL ADDRESS,

  • GEORGE WASHINGTON WROTE THAT

  • SELF-GOVERNMENT IS THE

  • UNDERPINNING OF OUR SAFETY,

  • PROSPERITY, AND LIBERTY.

  • BUT FROM DIFFERENT CAUSES AND

  • FROM DIFFERENT QUARTERS, MUCH

  • PAINS WILL BE TAKEN TO WEAKEN IN

  • YOUR MINDS THE CONVICTION OF

  • THIS TRUTH.

  • AND SO WE HAVE TO PRESERVE THIS

  • TRUTH WITH JEALOUS ANXIETY, THAT

  • WE SHOULD REJECT THE FIRST

  • DAWNING OF EVERY ATTEMPT TO

  • ALIENATE ANY PORTION OF OUR

  • COUNTRY FROM THE REST OR TO

  • ENFEEBIL THE SACRED TIES THAT

  • MAKE US ONE.

  • ( APPLAUSE )

  • AMERICA, WE WEAKEN THOSE TIES

  • WHEN WE ALLOW OUR POLITICAL

  • DIALOGUE TO BECOME SO CORROSIVE,

  • THAT PEOPLE OF GOOD CHARACTER

  • AREN'T EVEN WILLING TO ENTER

  • INTO PUBLIC SERVICE.

  • SO COARSE WITH RANCOR, THAT

  • AMERICANS WITH WHOM WE DISAGREE

  • ARE SEEN NOT JUST AS MISGUIDED

  • BUT AS MALEVOLENT.

  • WE WEAKEN THOSE TIES WHEN WE

  • DEFINE SOME OF US AS MORE

  • AMERICAN THAN OTHERS.

  • WHEN WE WRITE OFF THE WHOLE

  • SYSTEM AS INEVITABLY CORRUPT.

  • ( APPLAUSE )

  • AND WHEN WE SIT BACK AND BLAME

  • THE LEADERS WE ELECT WITHOUT

  • EXAMINING OUR OWN ROLE IN

  • ELECTING THEM.

  • ( CHEERS AND APPLAUSE )

  • IT FALLS TO EACH OF US TO BE

  • THOSE ANXIOUS, JEALOUS GUARDIANS

  • OF OUR DEMOCRACY, TO EMBRACE THE

  • JOYOUS TASK WE'VE BEEN GIVEN, TO

  • CONTINUALLY TRY TO IMPROVE THIS

  • GREAT NATION OF OURS BECAUSE,

  • FOR ALL OUR OUTWARD DIFFERENCES,

  • WE IN FACT ALL SHARE THE SAME

  • PROUD TITLE, THE MOST IMPORTANT

  • OFFICE IN A DEMOCRACY-- CITIZEN.

  • ( APPLAUSE )

  • CITIZEN.

  • SO, YOU SEE, THAT'S WHAT OUR

  • DEMOCRACY DEMANDS.

  • IT NEEDS YOU, NOT JUST WHEN

  • THERE'S AN ELECTION, NOT JUST

  • WHEN YOUR OWN NARROW INTEREST IS

  • AT STAKE, BUT OVER THE FULL SPAN

  • OF A LIFETIME.

  • IF YOU'RE TIRED OF ARGUING WITH

  • STRANGERS ON THE INTERNET, TRY

  • TALKING WITH ONE OF THEM IN REAL

  • LIFE.

  • ( CHEERS AND APPLAUSE )

  • IF SOMETHING NEEDS FIXING, THEN

  • LACE UP YOUR SHOES AND DO SOME

  • ORGANIZING.

  • ( CHEERS AND APPLAUSE )

  • IF YOU'RE DISAPPOINTED BY YOUR

  • ELECTED OFFICIALS, GRAB A

  • CLIPBOARD, GET SOME SIGNATURES,

  • AND RUN FOR OFFICE YOURSELF.

  • ( CHEERS AND APPLAUSE )

  • SHOW UP, DIVE IN, STAY AT IT.

  • SOMETIMES YOU'LL WIN.

  • SOMETIMES YOU'LL LOSE.

  • PRESUMING A RESERVOIR OF

  • GOODNESS IN OTHER PEOPLE, THAT

  • CAMBRIDGE RISK.

  • AND THERE WILL BE TIMES WHEN THE

  • PROCESS WILL DISAPPOINT YOU, BUT

  • FOR THOSE OF US FORTUNATE ENOUGH

  • TO HAVE BEEN PART OF THIS WORK

  • AND TO SEE IT UP CLOSE, LET ME

  • TELL YOU, IT CAN ENERGIZE AND

  • INSPIRE.

  • AND MORE OFTEN THAN NOT, YOUR

  • FAITH IN AMERICA AND IN

  • AMERICANS WILL BE CONFIRMED.

  • MINE SURE HAS BEEN.

  • ( APPLAUSE )

  • OVER THE COURSE OF THESE EIGHT

  • YEARS, I'VE SEEN THE HOPEFUL

  • FACES OF YOUNG GRADUATES AND OUR

  • NEWEST MILITARY OFFICERS.

  • I HAVE MOURNED WITH GRIEVING

  • FAMILIES SEARCHING FOR ANSWERS

  • AND FOUND GRACE IN A CHARLESTON

  • CHURCH.

  • I'VE SEEN OUR SCIENTISTS HELP A

  • PARALYZED MAN REGAIN HIS SENSE

  • OF TOUCH.

  • I'VE SEEN WOUNDED WARRIORS WHO

  • AT POINTS WERE GIVEN UP FOR DEAD

  • WALK AGAIN.

  • I'VE SEEN OUR DOCTORS AND

  • VOLUNTEERS REBUILD AFTER

  • EARTHQUAKES AND STOP PANDEMICS

  • IN THEIR TRACKS.

  • I'VE SEEN THE YOUNGEST OF

  • CHILDREN REMIND US THROUGH THEIR

  • ACTIONS AND THROUGH THEIR

  • GENEROSITY OF OUR OBLIGATIONS TO

  • CARE FOR REFUGEES OR WORK FOR

  • PEACE.

  • ( APPLAUSE )

  • AND ABOVE ALL, TO LOOK OUT FOR

  • EACH OTHER.

  • SO THAT FAITH THAT I PLACED ALL

  • THOSE YEARS AGO, NOT FAR FROM

  • HERE, IN THE POWER OF ORDINARY

  • AMERICANS TO BRING ABOUT CHANGE,

  • THAT FAITH HAS BEEN REWARDED IN

  • WAYS I COULD NOT HAVE POSSIBLY

  • IMAGINED.

  • AND I HOPE YOUR FAITH HAS, TOO.

  • SOME OF YOU HERE TONIGHT OR

  • WATCHING AT HOME, YOU WERE THERE

  • WITH US IN 2004 AND 2008, 2012.

  • ( CHEERS AND APPLAUSE )

  • MAYBE YOU STILL CAN'T BELIEVE WE

  • PULLED THIS WHOLE THING OFF.

  • LET ME TELL YOU, YOU'RE NOT THE

  • ONLY ONES.

  • ( LAUGHTER )

  • MICHELLE.

  • ( CHEERS AND APPLAUSE )

  • MICHELLE LEVON ROBINSON, GIRL OF

  • THE SOUTH SIDE FOR THE PAST 25

  • YEARS, YOU HAVE NOT ONLY BEEN MY

  • WIFE AND MOTHER OF MY CHILDREN.

  • YOU HAVE BEEN MY BEST FRIEND.

  • ( CHEERS AND APPLAUSE )

  • YOU TOOK ON A ROLE YOU DIDN'T

  • ASK FOR, AND YOU MADE IT YOUR

  • OWN WITH GRACE AND WITH GRIT AND

  • WITH STYLE AND GOOD HUMOR.

  • ( APPLAUSE )

  • ( CHEERS )

  • YOU MADE THE WHITE HOUSE A PLACE

  • THAT BELONGS TO EVERYBODY.

  • AND A NEW GENERATION SETS ITS

  • SIGHTS HIGHER BECAUSE IT HAS YOU

  • AS A ROLE MODEL.

  • SO YOU HAVE MADE ME PROUD, AND

  • YOU HAVE MADE THE COUNTRY PROUD.

  • ( CHEERS AND APPLAUSE )

  • MALIA AND SASHA, UNDER THE

  • STRANGEST OF CIRCUMSTANCES, YOU

  • HAVE BECOME TWO AMAZING YOUNG

  • WOMEN.

  • YOU ARE SMART AND YOU ARE

  • BEAUTIFUL, BUT MORE IMPORTANTLY,

  • YOU ARE KIND AND YOU ARE

  • THOUGHTFUL AND YOU ARE FULL OF

  • PASSION.

  • ( APPLAUSE )

  • AND YOU WORE THE BURDEN OF YEARS

  • IN THE SPOTLIGHT SO EASILY.

  • OF ALL THAT I HAVE DONE IN MY

  • LIFE, I AM MOST PROUD TO BE YOUR

  • DAD.

  • ( APPLAUSE )

  • TO JOE BIDEN.

  • ( CHEERS AND APPLAUSE )

  • THE SCRAPPY KID FROM SCRANTON

  • WHO BECAME DELAWARE'S FAVORITE

  • SON, YOU WERE THE FIRST DECISION

  • I MADE AS A NOMINEE, AND IT WAS

  • THE BEST.

  • ( CHEERS AND APPLAUSE )

  • NOT JUST BECAUSE YOU HAVE BEEN A

  • GREAT VICE PRESIDENT, BUT

  • BECAUSE IN THE BARGAIN I GAINED

  • A BROTHER.

  • AND WE LOVE YOU AND JILL LIKE

  • FAMILY, AND YOUR FRIENDSHIP HAS

  • BEEN ONE OF THE GREAT JOYS OF

  • OUR LIFE.

  • ( APPLAUSE )

  • TO MY REMARKABLE STAFF, FOR

  • EIGHT YEARS-- AND FOR FOR SOME

  • OF YOU A WHOLE LOT MORE EYE HAVE

  • DRAWN FROM YOUR ENERGY, AND

  • EVERY DAY I TRIED TO REFLECT

  • BACK WHAT YOU DISPLAYED-- HEART

  • AND CHARACTER AND IDEALISM.

  • I'VE WATCHED YOU GROW UP, GET

  • MARRIED, HAVE KIDS, START

  • INCREDIBLE NEW JOURNEYS OF YOUR

  • OWN.

  • EVEN WHEN TIMES GOT TOUGH AND

  • FRUSTRATING, YOU NEVER LET

  • WASHINGTON GET THE BETTER OF

  • YOU.

  • YOU GUARDED AGAINST CYNICISM.

  • AND THE ONLY THING THAT MAKES ME

  • PROUDER THAN ALL THE GOOD THAT

  • WE'VE DONE IS THE THOUGHT OF ALL

  • THE AMAZING THINGS THAT YOU ARE

  • GOING TO ACHIEVE FROM HERE.

  • ( APPLAUSE )

  • AND TO ALL OF YOU OUT THERE,

  • EVERY ORGANIZER WHO MOVED TO AN

  • UNFAMILIAR TOWN, EVERY KIND

  • FAMILY WHO WELCOMED THEM IN,

  • EVERY VOLUNTEER WHO KNOCKED ON

  • DOORS, EVERY YOUNG PERSON WHO

  • CAST A BALLOT FOR THE FIRST TI

  • TIME, EVERY AMERICAN WHO LIVED

  • AND BREATHED THE HARD WORK OF

  • CHANGE, YOU ARE THE BEST

  • SUPPORTERS AND ORGANIZERS

  • ANYBODY COULD EVER HOPE FOR, AND

  • I WILL BE FOREVER GRATEFUL.

  • ( CHEERS AND APPLAUSE )

  • BECAUSE YOU DID CHANGE THE

  • WORLD.

  • YOU DID.

  • AND THAT'S WHY I LEAVE THIS

  • STAGE TONIGHT EVEN MORE

  • OPTIMISTIC ABOUT THIS COUNTRY

  • THAN WHEN WE STARTED BECAUSE I

  • KNOW OUR WORK HAS NOT ONLY

  • HELPED SO MANY AMERICANS.

  • IT HAS INSPIRED SO MANY

  • AMERICANS, ESPECIALLY SO MANY

  • YOUNG PEOPLE OUT THERE, TO

  • BELIEVE THAT YOU CAN MAKE A

  • DIFFERENCE, TO HITCH YOUR WAGON

  • TO SOMETHING BIGGER THAN

  • YOURSELVES.

  • LET ME TELL YOU, THIS GENERATION

  • COMING UP, UNSELFISH,

  • ALTRUISTIC, CREATIVE,

  • PATRIOTIC-- I'VE SEEN YOU IN

  • EVERY CORNER OF THE COUNTRY.

  • YOU BELIEVE IN A FAIR AND JUST

  • AND INCLUSIVE AMERICA.

  • ( CHEERS AND APPLAUSE )

  • YOU KNOW THAT CONSTANT CHANGE

  • HAS BEEN AMERICA'S HALLMARK,

  • THAT IT'S NOT SOMETHING TO FEAR

  • BUT SOMETHING TO EMBRACE.

  • YOU ARE WILLING TO CARRY THIS

  • HARD WORK OF DEMOCRACY FORWARD.

  • YOU'LL SOON OUTNUMBER ALL OF US,

  • AND I BELIEVE AS A RESULT, THE

  • FUTURE IS IN GOOD HANDS.

  • ( CHEERS AND APPLAUSE )

  • MY FELLOW AMERICANS, IT HAS BEEN

  • THE HONOR OF MY LIFE TO SERVE

  • YOU.

  • I WON'T STOP.

  • IN FACT, I WILL BE RIGHT THERE

  • WITH YOU AS A CITIZEN FOR ALL MY

  • REMAINING DAYS.

  • BUT FOR NOW, WHETHER YOU ARE

  • YOUNG OR WHETHER YOU ARE YOUNG

  • AT HEART, I DO HAVE ONE FINAL

  • ASK OF YOU AS YOUR PRESIDENT,

  • THE SAME THING I ASKED WHEN YOU

  • TOOK A CHANCE ON ME EIGHT YEARS

  • AGO.

  • I'M ASKING YOU TO BELIEVE, NOT

  • IN MY ABILITY TO BRING ABOUT

  • CHANGE BUT IN YOURS.

  • I AM ASKING YOU TO HOLD FAST TO

  • THAT FAITH WRITTEN INTO OUR

  • FOUNDING DOCUMENTS, THAT IDEA

  • WHISPERED BY SLAVES AND

  • APLITIONISTS, THAT SPIRIT SUNG

  • BY IMMIGRANTS AND HOMESTEADERS,

  • AND THOSE WHO MARCHED FOR

  • JUSTICE, THAT CREED REAFIRMED BY

  • THOSE WHO PLANTED FLAGS FROM

  • FOREIGN BATTLE FIELDS TO THE

  • SURFACE OF THE MOON, A CREED AT

  • THE CORE OF EVERY AMERICAN WHOSE

  • STORY IS NOT YET WRITTEN.

  • YES, WE CAN.

  • ( CHEERS AND APPLAUSE )

  • YES, WE DID.

  • YES, WE CAN.

  • THANK YOU, GOD BLESS YOU.

  • MAY GOD CONTINUE TO BLESS THE

  • UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.

  • ( CHEERS AND APPLAUSE )

  • THANK YOU.

  • >> Pelley: PRESIDENT BARACK

  • OBAMA'S FINAL ADDRESS TO THE

  • AMERICAN PEOPLE AS PRESIDENT AT

  • McCORMACK PLACE IN CHICAGO,

  • HIS HOME TOWN.

  • THERE WILL BE MORE ABOUT THE

  • PRESIDENT'S ADDRESS ON YOUR

  • LOCAL NEWS ON THIS CBS STATION.

  • OF COURSE, ON OUR 24-HOUR

  • STREAMING NEWS SERVICE, CBSN,

  • AND FIRST THING TOMORROW ON "CBS

  • THIS MORNING"."

  • ALSO TOMORROW, DONALD TRUMP WILL

  • HOLD HIS FIRST NEWS CONFERENCE

  • AS PRESIDENT-ELECT.

  • CBS NEWS WILL BRING THAT TO YOU

  • LIVE AT 11 A.M. EASTERN TIME.

  • FOR NOW, MOST OF THE COUNTRY,

  • CBS PRIME-TIME PROGRAMMING IS

  • COMING RIGHT UP.

  • BUT FOR SOME OF YOU IN THE WEST,

  • WE'LL BE RIGHT BACK WITH THE CBS

  • EVENING NEWS.

  • I'M SCOTT

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