Obama promises to restore U.S. legacy

[UpInArms]

Source: Reuters

DENVER, Aug 28 (Reuters) - Barack Obama, about to take a historic step as the Democratic presidential nominee, promised on Thursday to reverse the economic failures of the last eight years, end the war in Iraq and restore America's reputation.

"We are here because we love this country too much to let the next four years look just like the last eight," Obama, the first black White House nominee of a major U.S. party, said in excerpts of his remarks prepared for delivery to the Democratic convention.

"On November 4th, we must stand up and say: 'Eight is enough,'" he said.

Obama took direct aim at Republican rival John McCain and linked the veteran Arizona senator to the policies of President George W. Bush, which he said were responsible for the faltering U.S. economy and decline in U.S. global standing.

"The Bush-McCain foreign policy has squandered the legacy that generations of Americans -- Democrats and Republicans -- have built, and we are to restore that legacy," he said.

"We are better than these last eight years. We are a better country than this," he said.

Obama gives the biggest speech in a career filled with big speeches later on Thursday in Denver's open-air football stadium before an expected 75,000 supporters on the 45th anniversary of Martin Luther King's "I Have a Dream" speech -- a landmark in the U.S. civil rights movement.

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gObama!

worth reading every word for those of us who are in A B(lackout) C(football is more important) land

[Demeter]

1. Better Start With the Constitution and the Dept of Justice, Then

[UpInArms]

2. start with anywhere and anything

the list of things that need to be undone is long and near impossible, but I am willing to believe that something can be done to undo the wrongs that have been committed by the criminals in charge

[Amonester]

3. Almost No time for vacations for President Obama.

He will be just fine with that.