"These people are part of me." : What was your favorite line or phrase?

[boppers]

ITT: we discuss lines from A More Prefect Union/inhisownwords

[againes654]

1. I haven't been able to see the video yet

I have suckie internet connection, and we are having bad bad weather right now. Tornados and shit.

I read the transcript though, and that sounds like an amazing speech. It had me in tears several times.

[CoffeeCat]

2. Hands down...

"I'm here for Ashley."

I cried. I teared up several times today, just thinking about that line.

I told my husband about it over the phone and I got choked up.

[OhioBlue]

6. that made me cry too. n/t

[better tomorrow]

3. I'm here because of Ashley....

[suston96]

4. Favorite line? Mustard and relish sandwiches....

When I was growing up, we had mustard sandwiches often. Couldn't afford the relish.

[thunder rising]

5. "Not This Time" ... that let me get out a Hell 'Ya!

[mth44sc]

10. agreed! n/t

[chimpymustgo]

7. And then there was that moment when he paused. It was rapturous! Still reliving the kiss?

This is starting to look really goofy. It was a great speech. It was not the best of the century. There's not even a memorable line.

I was very impressed - but you guys need to get a grip.

[scheming daemons]

8. It was the best speech of the 2008 campaign... by ANY candidate of EITHER party....

...without a doubt.

[Teaser]

9. "Not this time"

.

[cottonseed]

11. "We can do that"

I liked it because it was delivered with a cool confidence.

*snip*

For we have a choice in this country. We can accept a politics that breeds division, and conflict, and cynicism. We can tackle race only as spectacle - as we did in the OJ trial - or in the wake of tragedy, as we did in the aftermath of Katrina - or as fodder for the nightly news. We can play Reverend Wright's sermons on every channel, every day and talk about them from now until the election, and make the only question in this campaign whether or not the American people think that I somehow believe or sympathize with his most offensive words. We can pounce on some gaffe by a Hillary supporter as evidence that she's playing the race card, or we can speculate on whether white men will all flock to John McCain in the general election regardless of his policies.

We can do that.

*snip*