did you get the sense that he was not physically, but sort of spiritually passing the torch to president obama? well, teddy didn t like to pass any torches on, so i think that he was so thrilled to have a partner. i think he thought the future would be so fantastic for him and all the issues that he cared about. i remember another such time in the 1960s when i came to the senate at the age of 30. we had a new president who inspired the nation, especially the young, to seek a new frontier. the parallels of a young senator who was breaking down barriers connected so personally to my father with his brother being another young president, a time when people didn t believe he could be elected because of his religion. and now we were facing this question again, whether someone could be elected based upon their race. despite obama s popularity and victories, the question was still open. would america be able to
and i think that was the sense that we were really here in the presence of somebody who s a new kind of leader. are you fired up?! ready to go?! fired up! ready to go? fired up! ready to go? ready to go! so am i. on january 3rd, 2008, these fired up voters swept obama to victory in the iowa caucuses. they said this day would never come. he had beaten john edwards by eight points. senator clinton had come in third. we are choosing hope over fear. we re choosing unity over division and sending a powerful message that change is coming to america. but winning iowa didn t clear obama s path to the nomination. he struggled to reach working class whites while the hearts of older women were with hillary clinton. the next president of the united states, hillary clinton! five days after iowa, obama
of trying, today, after over a year of debate, today, after all the votes have been tallied, health insurance reform becomes law in the united states of america. [ applause ] it was, as the vice president whispered in his ear, a truly historic achievement. this is a big deal. but the victory served notice to republicans that if this president didn t get their help, he d still get things done. big things. republicans vowed to fight him every step of the way. over the past week, some have said it was indelicate of me to suggest that our top political priority over the next two years should be to deny president obama a second term. stop cap and tax! stop cap and tax. meanwhile, across the country, a new political force was mobilizing, the tea party movement, who aimed to push the government further to the right. stop spending money, now.
kind of leader. are you fired up?! ready to go?! fired up! ready to go? fired up! ready to go? ready to go! so am i. on january 3rd, 2008, these fired up voters swept obama to victory in the iowa caucuses. they said this day would never come. he had beaten john edwards by eight points. senator clinton had come in third. we are choosing hope over fear. we re choosing unity over division and sending a powerful message that change is coming to america. but winning iowa didn t clear obama s path to the nomination. he struggled to reach working class whites while the hearts of older women were with hillary clinton. the next president of the united states, hillary clinton! five days after iowa, obama lost narrowly to clinton in new hampshire. it was going to be a long,
health insurance reform becomes law in the united states of america. it was, as the vice president whispered in his ear, a truly historic achievement. this is a big deal. but the victory served notice to republicans that if this president didn t get their help, he d still get things done. big things. republicans vowed to fight him every step of the way. over the past week, some have said it was indelicate of me to suggest that our top political priority over the next two years should be to deny president obama a second term. stop cap and tax! stop cap and tax. meanwhile, across the country, a new political force was mobilizing, the tea party movement, who aimed to push the government further to the right. stop spending money, now. in the 2010 midterm