CONVENTION DEMOCRATE : LE PLAIDOYER DE MICHELLE OBAMA POUR LA CLASSE MOYENNE.

Le thème de ce lundi 25 AOÜT 2008 de la convention démocrate était "la nation américaine". A Michelle Obama d'être l'ambassadrice de cette nouvelle nation. Après les allocutions de Maya Soetoro-Ng, la demi-soeur de Barack, Craig Robinson, le frère de Michelle, cette "Obama nation" a voulu mettre les classes moyennes à l'honneur. Alors, l'épouse du sénateur de l'Illinois raconte son parcours difficile, les heures de travail de son père, l'éducation populaire de son époux et son travail au sein des communautés en difficulté de Chicago, rend un hommage appuyé à Hillary Clinton, à Joe Biden.

Et surtout, répond à ceux qui avaient voulu mettre son patriotisme en doute. En février dernier, une de ses petites phrases avait mis le camp républicain en émoi. "Pour la première fois de ma vie d'adulte, je suis fière de mon pays" avait-elle déclaré. Un extrait qui avait fait le tour du web et lancé la polémique : Michelle Obama serait-elle raciste? Un surnom lui avait été donné depuis par la presse conservatrice : « Madame récrimination". Elle a voulu prouver pour le lancement de cette convention qu'elle pouvait être aussi "Madame réconciliation » en faisant une déclaration d'amour à l'Amérique. « C'est pour cela que j'aime mon pays. (...) Et dans ma propre vie, avec mes petits moyens, j’ai essayé de rendre à ce pays tout ce qu’il m’a donné. »<o:p></o:p>

Retrouvez le texte intégral de l’intervention de Michelle Obama ici.

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" (...) I come here as a Mom whose girls are the heart of my heart and the center of my world - they're the first thing I think about when I wake up in the morning, and the last thing I think about when I go to bed at night. Their future - and all our children's future - is my stake in this election.

And I come here as a daughter - raised on the South Side of Chicago by a father who was a blue collar city worker, and a mother who stayed at home with my brother and me. My mother's love has always been a sustaining force for our family, and one of my greatest joys is seeing her integrity, her compassion, and her intelligence reflected in my own daughters.

(...) And you know, what struck me when I first met Barack was that even though he had this funny name, even though he'd grown up all the way across the continent in Hawaii, his family was so much like mine. He was raised by grandparents who were working class folks just like my parents, and by a single mother who struggled to pay the bills just like we did. Like my family, they scrimped and saved so that he could have opportunities they never had themselves. And Barack and I were raised with so many of the same values: that you work hard for what you want in life; that your word is your bond and you do what you say you're going to do; that you treat people with dignity and respect, even if you don't know them, and even if you don't agree with them.

And Barack and I set out to build lives guided by these values, and pass them on to the next generation. Because we want our children - and all children in this nation - to know that the only limit to the height of your achievements is the reach of your dreams and your willingness to work for them.<o:p></o:p>

(...)I stand here today at the crosscurrents of that history - knowing that my piece of the American Dream is a blessing hard won by those who came before me. All of them driven by the same conviction that drove my dad to get up an hour early each day to painstakingly dress himself for work. The same conviction that drives the men and women I've met all across this country:

People who work the day shift, kiss their kids goodnight, and head out for the night shift - without disappointment, without regret - that goodnight kiss a reminder of everything they're working for.

The military families who say grace each night with an empty seat at the table. The servicemen and women who love this country so much, they leave those they love most to defend it.

The young people across America serving our communities - teaching children, cleaning up neighborhoods, caring for least among us each and every day.<o:p></o:p>

People like Hillary Clinton, who put those 18 million cracks in the glass ceiling, so that our daughters – and sons – dream a little bigger and aim a littl higher.<o:p></o:p>

People like Joe Biden, who's never forgotten where he came from, and never stopped fighting for folks who work long hours and face long odds and need someone on their side again.<o:p></o:p>

All of us driven by a simple belief that the world as it is just won't do - that we have an obligation to fight for the world as it should be. (...)" <o:p></o:p>

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Auteur :  Marjorie  Paillon <o:p></o:p>

Publié  le :  26  août  2008<o:p></o:p>

Rubrique :  News-Convention-démocrate<o:p></o:p>

Source :  http://www.ilovepolitics.info<o:p><o:p></o:p></o:p><o:p></o:p>

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