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1、Michelle Obama s Convention Speech September 4 2012 1 Thank you so much Elaine We are so grateful for your family s service and sacrifi ce and we will always have your back 2 Over the past few years as First Lady I have had the extraordinary privilege of traveling all across this country 3 And every
2、where I ve gone in the people I ve met and the stories I ve heard I have seen the very best of the American spirit 4 I have seen it in the incredible kindness and warmth that people have shown me and my family especially our girls 5 I ve seen it in teachers in a near bankrupt school district who vow
3、ed to keep teaching without pay 6 I ve seen it in people who become heroes at a moment s notice diving into harm s way to save others fl ying across the country to put out a fi re driving for hours to bail out a fl ooded town 7 And I ve seen it in our men and women in uniform and our proud military
4、families in wounded warriors who tell me they re not just going to walk again they re going to run and they re going to run marathons in the young man blinded by a bomb in Afghanistan who said simply I d give my eyes 100 times again to have the chance to do what I have done and what I can still do 8
5、 Every day the people I meet inspire me every day they make me proud every day they remind me how blessed we are to live in the greatest nation on earth 9 Serving as your First Lady is an honor and a privilege but back when we fi rst came together four years ago I still had some concerns about this
6、journey we d begun 10 While I believed deeply in my husband s vision for this country and I was certain he would make an extraordinary President like any mother I was worried about what it would mean for our girls if he got that chance 11 How would we keep them grounded under the glare of the nation
7、al spotlight 12 How would they feel being uprooted from their school their friends and the only home they d ever known 13 Our life before moving to Washington was fi lled with simple joys Saturdays at soccer games Sundays at grandma s house and a date night for Barack and me was either dinner or a m
8、ovie because as an exhausted mom I couldn t stay awake for both 14 And the truth is I loved the life we had built for our girls I deeply loved the man I had built that life with and I didn t want that to change if he became President 15 I loved Barack just the way he was 16 You see even though back
9、then Barack was a Senator and a presidential candidate to me he was still the guy who d picked me up for our dates in a car that was so rusted out I could actually see the pavement going by through a hole in the passenger side door He was the guy whose proudest possession was a coffee table he d fou
10、nd in a dumpster and whose only pair of decent shoes was half a size too small 17 But when Barack started telling me about his family that s when I knew I had found a kindred spirit someone whose values and upbringing were so much like mine 18 You see Barack and I were both raised by families who di
11、dn t have much in the way of money or material possessions but who had given us something far more valuable their unconditional love their unfl inching sacrifi ce and the chance to go places they had never imagined for themselves 19 My father was a pump operator at the city water plant and he was di
12、agnosed with Multiple Sclerosis when my brother and I were young 20 And even as a kid I knew there were plenty of days when he was in pain I knew there were plenty of mornings when it was a struggle for him to simply get out of bed 21 But every morning I watched my father wake up with a smile grab h
13、is walker prop himself up against the bathroom sink and slowly shave and button his uniform 22 And when he returned home after a long day s work my brother and I would stand at the top of the stairs to our little apartment patiently waiting to greet him watching as he reached down to lift one leg an
14、d then the other to slowly climb his way into our arms 23 But despite these challenges my dad hardly ever missed a day of work He and my mom were determined to give me and my brother the kind of education they could only dream of 24 And when my brother and I fi nally made it to college nearly all of
15、 our tuition came from student loans and grants 25 But my dad still had to pay a tiny portion of that tuition himself 26 And every semester he was determined to pay that bill right on time even taking out loans when he fell short He was so proud to be sending his kids to college and he made sure we
16、never missed a registration deadline because his check was late 27 You see for my dad that s what it meant to be a man 28 Like so many of us that was the measure of his success in life being able to earn a decent living that allowed him to support his family 29 And as I got to know Barack I realized that even though he d grown up all the way across the country he d been brought up just like me 30 Barack was raised by a single mother who struggled to pay the bills and by grandparents who stepped
