2.11.2007
Obama Pledges New Generation of U.S. Leadership (NZHerald.co.nz)
Sunday February 11, 2007
SPRINGFIELD, Illinois - Democratic presidential hopeful Barack Obama, citing the legacy of Abraham Lincoln, has pledged to bridge the partisan gridlock in Washington, end the war in Iraq and transform American politics as the first black US president.
Launching his 2008 White House campaign outside the building in where Lincoln began his fight against slavery with a famous 1858 speech that declared "a house divided against itself cannot stand," Obama said it was time to "turn the page" to a new politics.
"Let us begin this hard work together. Let us transform this nation," Obama, 45, told a cheering crowd of supporters in Springfield, Illinois, who braved sub-freezing temperatures outside the old state capital building.
"By ourselves, this change will not happen. Divided, we are bound to fail," he said.
Obama, a rising party star and the only black US senator, said the United States had overcome many difficult challenges, from gaining its independence to the Civil War to the Great Depression.
"Each and every time, a new generation has risen up and done what's needed to be done. Today we are called once more -- and it is time for our generation to answer that call," he said.
(More ... New Zealand Herald > World)
SPRINGFIELD, Illinois - Democratic presidential hopeful Barack Obama, citing the legacy of Abraham Lincoln, has pledged to bridge the partisan gridlock in Washington, end the war in Iraq and transform American politics as the first black US president.
Launching his 2008 White House campaign outside the building in where Lincoln began his fight against slavery with a famous 1858 speech that declared "a house divided against itself cannot stand," Obama said it was time to "turn the page" to a new politics.
"Let us begin this hard work together. Let us transform this nation," Obama, 45, told a cheering crowd of supporters in Springfield, Illinois, who braved sub-freezing temperatures outside the old state capital building.
"By ourselves, this change will not happen. Divided, we are bound to fail," he said.
Obama, a rising party star and the only black US senator, said the United States had overcome many difficult challenges, from gaining its independence to the Civil War to the Great Depression.
"Each and every time, a new generation has risen up and done what's needed to be done. Today we are called once more -- and it is time for our generation to answer that call," he said.
(More ... New Zealand Herald > World)
Labels: 2008 election, New Zealand Herald, Obama
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