○ 名人演讲：a tale of two cities ○
this election will measure the record of the past four years. but more than that, it will answer the question of what kind of people we want to be.
we democrats still have a dream. we still believe in this nation's future. and this is our answer to the question, this is our credo:
we believe in only the government we need but we insist on all the government we need. we believe in a government that is characterized by fairness and reasonableness, a reasonableness that goes beyond labels, that doesn't distort or promise things that we know we can't do.we believe in a government strong enough to use the words "love" and "compassion" and smart enough to convert our noblest aspirations into practical realities. we believe in encouraging the talented, but we believe that while survival of the fittest may be a good working description of the process of evolution, a government of humans should elevate itself to a higher order.
our government should be able to rise to the level to where it can fill the gaps left by chance or a wisdom we don't fully understand. we would rather have laws written by the patron of this great city, the man called the "world's most sincere democrat" - st. francis of assisi - than laws written by darwin.
we believe, we believe as democrats, that a society as blessed as ours, the most affluent democracy in the world's history, one that can spend trillions on instruments of destruction, ought to be able to help the middle class in its struggle, ought to be able to find work for all who can do it, room at the table, shelter for the homeless, care for the elderly and infirm, and hope for the destitute. and we proclaim as loudly as we can the utter in
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