Thread: Obama Latin America speech in Miami

Obama Latin America speech in Miami
EMBARGOED FOR DELIVERY
Renewing U.S. Leadership in the Americas
Remarks of Senator Barack Obama
Cuban American National Foundation
May 23, 2008
As prepared for delivery



It is my privilege to join in this week’s Independence Day celebration, and in honoring those who have stood up with courage and conviction for Cuban liberty. I’m going to take this opportunity to speak about Cuba, and also U.S. policy toward the Americas more broadly.

We meet here united in our unshakeable commitment to freedom. And it is fitting that we reaffirm that commitment here in Miami.

In many ways, Miami stands as a symbol of hope for what’s possible in the Americas. Miami’s promise of liberty and opportunity has drawn generations of immigrants to these shores, sometimes with nothing more than the clothes on their back. It was a similar hope that drew my own father across an ocean, in search of the same promise that our dreams need not be deferred because of who we are, what we look like, or where we come from.

Here, in Miami, that promise can join people together. We take common pride in a vibrant and diverse democracy, and a hard-earned prosperity. We find common pleasure in the crack of the bat, in the rhythms of our music, and the ease of voices shifting from Spanish or Creole or Portuguese to English.

These bonds are built on a foundation of shared history in our hemisphere. Colonized by empires, we share stories of liberation. Confronted by our own imperfections, we are joined in a desire to build a more perfect union. Rich in resources, we have yet to vanquish poverty.

What all of us strive for is freedom as FDR described it. Political freedom. Religious freedom. But also freedom from want, and freedom from fear. At our best, the United States has been a force for these four freedoms in the Americas. But if we’re honest with ourselves, we’ll acknowledge that at times we’ve failed to engage the people of the region with the respect owed to a partner.

When George Bush was elected, he held out the promise that this would change. He raised the hopes of the region that our engagement would be sustained instead of piecemeal. He called Mexico our most important bilateral relationship, and pledged to make Latin America a “fundamental commitmentâ€

This Muslim puppet and his Americas . Their telling us whats going to happen and people think obama is a God . The stupidy of Americans .
I got problems , i can't live in a land over run with invadors and lowclass law breakers . They are going to rip America a part , all for their sorry ass profit .

These bonds are built on a foundation of shared history in our hemisphere. Colonized by empires, we share stories of liberation. Confronted by our own imperfections, we are joined in a desire to build a more perfect union. Rich in resources, we have yet to vanquish poverty.

Not a nation but a hemisphere

"We the people, in order to form a more perfect union." is from the Declaration of Independence at a Philadelphia convention.

Is he not declaring a goal of a 'perfect union' of all countries in our hemishphere?

[i]“The pacifist is as surely a traitor to his country and to humanity as is the most brutal wrongdoerâ€

this new "UTOPIA" evvisioned by Sen. Obama in his speech that includes every country in this hemisphere will of course have to be paid for by the citizens of the U.S. What a privledge.