Obama and the American Promise

I was hoping that it would live up to the hype and the man did not disappoint me. Here is the full text and the video.

America, we are better than these last eight years. We are a better country than this. ....
We are more compassionate than a government that lets veterans sleep on our streets and families slide into poverty; that sits on its hands while a major American city drowns before our eyes.
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Because next week, in Minnesota, the same party that brought you two terms of George Bush and Dick Cheney will ask this country for a third. And we are here because we love this country too much to let the next four years look like the last eight. On November 4th, we must stand up and say: "Eight is enough."
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It's not because John McCain doesn't care. It's because John McCain doesn't get it.
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Well it's time for them to own their failure. It's time for us to change America.
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The times are too serious, the stakes are too high for this same partisan playbook. So let us agree that patriotism has no party. I love this country, and so do you, and so does John McCain. The men and women who serve in our battlefields may be Democrats and Republicans and Independents, but they have fought together and bled together and some died together under the same proud flag. They have not served a Red America or a Blue America - they have served the United States of America.
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But I stand before you tonight because all across America something is stirring. What the nay-sayers don't understand is that this election has never been about me. It's been about you.
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You have shown what history teaches us - that at defining moments like this one, the change we need doesn't come from Washington. Change comes to Washington. Change happens because the American people demand it - because they rise up and insist on new ideas and new leadership, a new politics for a new time.
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This country of ours has more wealth than any nation, but that's not what makes us rich. We have the most powerful military on Earth, but that's not what makes us strong. Our universities and our culture are the envy of the world, but that's not what keeps the world coming to our shores.
Instead, it is that American spirit - that American promise - that pushes us forward even when the path is uncertain; that binds us together in spite of our differences; that makes us fix our eye not on what is seen, but what is unseen, that better place around the bend.
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At this moment, in this election, we must pledge once more to march into the future. Let us keep that promise - that American promise - and in the words of Scripture hold firmly, without wavering, to the hope that we confess.

That was right up there with his 2004 Keynote speech, the New Hampshire Primary "Yes We Can" speech, and the race speech. He is truly one of the most gifted orators that we have seen. Its so nice to see someone that can string words together intelligently again, despite republican cries to the contrary he is so much more than a good speech. Hillary tried that argument. Look where it got her. His judgement has again and again proven to be correct.

He hit McCain directly. He tore into Bush and the last eight years. He tied this moment in history to King and the march on Washington. He challenged the way campaigns have been run. He challenged all Americans to fulfill the promise that is America.