Michelle Obama’s Speech At The DNC

Best part of the Michelle Obama speech to my ears? This section:

And in the end, after all that’s happened these past 19 months, see the Barack Obama I know today is the same man I fell in love with 19 years ago. He’s the same man who drove me and our new baby daughter home from the hospital 10 years ago this summer, inching along at a snail’s pace, peering anxiously at us in the rearview mirror, feeling the whole weight of her future in his hands, determined to give her everything he’d struggled so hard for himself, determined to give her something he never had: the affirming embrace of a father’s love.

And as I tuck that little girl in and her little sister into bed at night, I think about how one day, they’ll have families of their own. And one day, they — and your sons and daughters — will tell their own children about what we did together in this election. They’ll tell them how this time we listened to our hopes, instead of our fears. How this time, we decided to stop doubting and to start dreaming.

How this time, in this great country, where a girl from the south side of Chicago can go to college and to law school, and the son of a single mother from Hawaii can go all the way to the White House. We committed ourselves to building the world as it should be.

So tonight, in honor of my father’s memory and my daughters’ future, out of gratitude for those whose triumphs we mark this week and those whose everyday sacrifices have brought us to this moment, let us devote ourselves to finishing their work…

Well written passage, and very well delivered. What did you all think?

UPDATE:  And the kids are adorable.  The "persistent president" line was priceless.

(YouTube is the pre-speech message that the Obama campaign sent out of Michelle Obama and the girls doing pre-speech prep.)

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