Your eloquent introduction. Things worked out a little different from the way i thought , but let me tell you, i still love new york. [cheering] my fellow democrats, and my fellow americans, i have come not just not to argue as a candidate, but to affirm a cause. To renew theou commitment of the democratic justice. Economic im asking you to renew our commitment to a fair and lasting prosperity that can put america back to work. This is the cause that brought me into the campaign, and that sustained me for nine months before a in 40 different states. We had our losses, but the pain of our defeat is far less than the pain of the people that i have met. We have learned that it is important to take issues seriously, but never to take ourselves too seriously. The serious issue before us tonight is the cause for which the Democratic Party has stood , because thathour makes it in the second century of its age, the Largest Political Party in this republican, the public and the largest longest
our daughter chelsea will graduate from college in 2001 at the dawn of the next century. though that s not so far away, it is hard for any of us to know what the world will look like then, much less when chelsea is my age in the year 2028. but one thing we know for sure is that change is certain. progress is not. progress depends on the choices we make today for tomorrow and on whether we meet our challenges and protect our values. we can start by doing more to support parents and the job they have to do. issues affecting children and families are some of the hardest we face as parents, as citizens, as a nation. in october, bill and i will celebrate our 21st wedding anniversary. [cheers and applause] bill was with me when chelsea was born in the delivery room, in my hospital room, and when we brought our baby daughter home. not only did i have lots of help, i was able to stay in the hospital as long as my doctor thought i needed to be there. [cheers and applause] but today, t
were fresh and new, hadn t faded yet. to some degree we re going to be remind the of the 2008. the comparisons will be made. i don t think there s going to be the same excitement in the convention hall for barack obama that there was last time around. people are going to be asking why that is, and it s going to have something to do with the obama record. it s going to have something to do with the way he s conducted his presidency. that s something democrats are going to have to explain. 30 seconds. the president was not challenged in the primaries. a new president seeking re-election. if he wins, he will be for the second time truly historic. the last time we elected with an employment rate above as it raying raying. it dropped continuously the year before. a plummet raise has not dropped. it s ticked upped in recent months. if president obama winds, it will be because of demographic shifts, his ability to persuade voters. it s better than the alternative. be historic.
and human misery as weapons against the inflation. let us pledge that employment will be the first priority of our economic policy. . across the generations. it is the glory and the greatness of our tradition to speak for those who have no voice, to remember those who are forgotten, to respond to the frustrations and fulfill the aspirations of all americans seeking a better life in a better land. we dare not forsake that tradition. we cannot let the great purposes of the democratic party become the bygone passages of history. we must not permit the republicans to seize and run on the slogans of prosperity. we heard the orators at their convention all trying to talk like democrats. they proved that even republican nominees can quote franklin roosevelt to their own purpose. the grand old party thinks it has found a great new trick, but 40 years ago an earlier generation of republicans attempted the same trick. and franklin roosevelt himself replied, most republican leaders hav
potential for the future. to all those who are idle in the cities and industries of america let us provide new hope for the dignity of useful work. democrats have always believed that a basic civil right of all americans is their right to earn their own way. the party of the people must always be the party of full employment. [applause] . [applause] to all those who work hard for a living wage let us provide new hope that the price of their employment shall not be an unsafe workplace and a death at an earlier age. to all those who inhabit our land from california to the new york island, from the redwood forest to the gulfstream waters, let us provide new hope that prosperity shall not be purchased by poisoning the air, the rivers and the natural resources that are the greatest gift of this continent. [applause] we must insist that our children and our grandchildren shall inherit a land which they can truly call america the beautiful. [applause] to all those who see the worth