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CDean - Obama's Victory Speech Analysis
by 2008-11-12)
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NEW WORDS
- founders
- achieved
- to renew
- unyielding
- the unsung hero
- chief strategist
- measure
- endorsements
- halls
- front porches
- backyards
- generation's apathy
- little pay and less sleep
- volunteered
- to risk
- mortgage
- to harness
- threats
- alliances
- partisanship
- pettiness
- slavery
- throughout
- heartache
- threatened
IDIOMS
- while she's no longer with us
- in the months ahead
- I am grateful to them
- every step of the way
- But above all
- block by block, brick by brick, calloused hand by calloused hand.
- one that's on my mind
- we shall overcome
- America, we have come so far
- there is so much more to do
- in the forgotten corners of the world
- God bless you
DIFFICULT WORD ORDER
- many for the very first time in their lives
- We are better off for the service rendered by this brave and selfless leader.
- know that my debt to them is beyond measure.
- our stories are singular, but our destiny is shared, and a new dawn of American leadership is at hand.
- A little bit earlier
- It's the answer that led those who have been told for so long by so many to be cynical, and fearful, and doubtful of what we can achieve to put their hands on the arc of history and bend it once more toward the hope of a better day.
EFFECTIVE COMMUNICATION
- I will never forget who this victory truly belongs to - it belongs to you.
- a party founded on the values of self-reliance, individual liberty, and national unity.
- Americans who sent a message to the world that we have never been just a collection of individuals or a collection of Red States and Blue States: we are, and always will be, the United States of America.
- It was built by working men and women who dug into what little savings they had to give $5 and $10 and $20 to the cause.
- from the millions of Americans who volunteered, and organised, and proved that more than two centuries later, a government of the people, by the people and for the people has not perished from the Earth.
- This is your victory.
- I will always be honest with you about the challenges we face. I will listen to you, especially when we disagree.
- So let us summon a new spirit of patriotism; of service and responsibility where each of us resolves to pitch in and work harder and look after not only ourselves, but each other.
- we cannot have a thriving Wall Street while Main Street suffers
- in this country, we rise or fall as one nation; as one people.
- And to those Americans whose support I have yet to earn - I may not have won your vote tonight, but I hear your voices, I need your help, and I will be your president too.
- To those who would tear the world down - we will defeat you. To those who seek peace and security - we support you.
- true strength of our nation comes from the enduring power of our ideals: democracy, liberty, opportunity and unyielding hope.
- This is our time - to put our people back to work and open doors of opportunity for our kids; to restore prosperity and promote the cause of peace; to reclaim the American dream and reaffirm that fundamental truth - that out of many, we are one; that while we breathe, we hope, and where we are met with cynicism and doubt, and those who tell us that we can't, we will respond with that timeless creed that sums up the spirit of a people: yes, we can.