A tip of the hat to my friends @mathewi and @rhh for the pointer to this speech – jbminn

Bruce Springsteen appeared yesterday at a voter registration event in Philadelphia. Here’s what he had to say about Barrack Obama & America. I’m thrilled to see & hear that someone in a position as potentially influential as Bruce’s is this passionate, eloquent, and insightful about why America needs Barrack Obama right now.

I hope it is ok to republish a large part of that speech here:

"In my job, I travel the world, and occasionally play big stadiums, just like Senator Obama. I’ve continued to find, wherever I go, America remains a repository of peoples hopes, possibilities, and desires, and that despite the terrible erosion to our standing around the world, accomplished by our recent administration, we remain, for many, a house of dreams. One thousand George Bushes and one thousand Dick Cheneys will never be able to tear that house down.

They will, however, be leaving office, dropping the national tragedies of Katrina, Iraq, and our financial crisis in our laps. Our sacred house of dreams has been abused, looted, and left in a terrible state of disrepair. It needs care; it needs saving, it needs defending against those who would sell it down the river for power or a quick buck. It needs strong arms, hearts, and minds. It needs someone with Senator Obama’s understanding, temperateness, deliberativeness, maturity, compassion, toughness, and faith, to help us rebuild our house once again. But most importantly, it needs us. You and me. To build that house with the generosity that is at the heart of the American spirit. A house that is truer and big enough to contain the hopes and dreams of all of our fellow people by our ability to accomplish this task. Now I don’t know about you, but I want that dream back, I want my America back, I want my country back.

So now is the time to stand with Barack Obama and Joe Biden, roll up our sleeves, and come on up for the rising."

 - Bruce Springsteen.

http://www.motherjones.com/mojoblog/archives/2008/10/10087_springsteen_philadelphia_rally_obama.html

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