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A freedom which only asks, “What’s in it for me?” – a freedom without a commitment to others, a freedom without love or charity or duty or patriotism – is unworthy of our founding ideals, and those who died in their defense.
As citizens, we understand that America is not about what can be done for us. It’s about what can be done by us, together, through the hard and frustrating but necessary work of self-government.
This is a real Barack Obama speech, vintage 2008. I’d almost forgotten how good that was to listen to. As good, in its way, as Michelle Obama Tuesday or Bill Clinton last night. And good enough not to seem an anti-climax after Joe Biden’s astounding performance.
Has there ever been a convention with four such speeches?
I won’t spoil the peroration by quoting it. Full text at the jump.
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