>We see it in the wider world when people say that enthusiasm for
>Obama is politically useful because it creates "hope" and even if that
>hope is dashed, the savviest argue, the fact that hope once existed
>means future demands will be made - a soft version of that ancient
>illusion of "heightening the contradictions".
My fellow Americans, I end tonight where it all began for me- I still believe in a place called Hope. God bless you, and God Bless America. Clinton's acceptance speech '92 Democratic Convention
http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Bill_Clinton's_acceptance_speech_to_1992_Democratic_Convention