An Obama Speech
My fellow citizens from this city, integral in the establishment of this nation, I provide you now with the current political crisis that you are asked to determine. In the Democratic Party, there is a choice, a completely valid choice of whom to support as our presidential nominee. Both of the candidates are of equal statue in political strength and both are ready for the job. And both have fought very hard for the position. But it is now a time in our party to choose. It is at this time in the campaign that you, citizens of Philadelphia must make a decision. You must decide on me.
At this very time, I lead Hillary Clinton by <100> pledged delegates in the Democratic convention. There is almost no way in which Hillary can catch my pledge delegate count. Right now, there is almost no way Hillary can beat me.
Because it is still a possibility, she is still in the race. If she can get close enough to my pledge delegate count and take momentum into the Denver convention, maybe she can overtake me in super-delegates and get the nomination. However, she will never win by democracy. She would get the nomination by the endorsement of the Democratic big wigs. She would win by coercing the system.
But if I were to win the great state of Penn., it would be shown as a turning point. It would be shown as validation that the people want a voice of hope in there elected officials. It would be shown that all people, of all persuasions, convictions, and genetics, believe in a candidate of change, of honestly, of character. We must be one, in solidarity, now; as a party. We must make a choice. Or we must travel to Denver, CO in a state of flux. It is here, in Penn., that the choice can be made. Here, you voters, upon which the eyes of the Democratic Party are fixed. It can happen here.
But you must believe that change can happen, that the way the country has been led is not the way that it should be led, that the capital of our nation should not conduct it’s self at odds with the best interest of the American people. You must believe that words do matter, that the hearts and minds of the youth of our country, the working poor, the union members, the mothers raising kids, the disaffected masses who are sweltering under this oppressive republican régime; that those and others are they that are moved by words, by the morale that is given by hope. When this nation’s hope and strength and will are set to motion, there is no feat we cannot accomplish.
And know this. My words will become deeds. How many times have we heard politicians say something in the election that they will not do. It is not within me to make a false promise. I cannot guarantee that everything I say will be done in the first hundred days of my presidency. But know that I have not, nor never will I ever speak with a politician’s purpose. I will speak only what I believe to be true.