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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 very first time in
their lives, because they believed that this time must be different;
that their voice could be that difference.
It's the answer spoken by young and old, rich and poor,
Democrat and Republican, black, white, Latino, Asian, Native
American, gay, straight, disabled and not disabled
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Americans
who sent a message to the world that we have never been a
collection of red states and blue states; we are, and always will be,
the United States of America.
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:It's the answer that led those who have been told for so long
by so many to be cynical, and fearful, and doubtful of what we can
achieve to put their hands on the arc of history and bend it once
more toward the hope of a better day.
It's been a long time coming, but tonight, because of what we
did on this day, in this election, at this defining moment, change has
come to America.