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Vi ser afslutningen af Barack Obamas tale efter primærvalget i New Hampshire. Obama havde netop tabt primærvalget i staten (men endte som bekendt med at vinde det samlede primærvalg samt præsidentvalget) og talen kan ses som en samlende og motiverende tale. En af de emner, Obama taler om, er at mange på det tidspunkt betragtede det som urealistisk, at han kunne vinde præsidentvalget.

Arbejdsspørgsmål:

Hvordan bruger Obama historien i sin tale?

Anvender han moralsk historiebrug? Eksistentiel historiebrug? Ideologisk historiebrug? Politisk/pædagogisk historiebrug?

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Transkription af talen

Afslutningen af talen kan læses i transkriberet form herunder:

We know the battle ahead will be long. But always remember that, no matter what
obstacles stand in our way, nothing can stand in the way of the power of millions of
voices calling for change.

We have been told we cannot do this by a chorus of cynics. And they will only grow
louder and more dissonant in the weeks and months to come.

We’ve been asked to pause for a reality check. We’ve been warned against offering
the people of this nation false hope. But in the unlikely story that is America, there
has never been anything false about hope.

For when we have faced down impossible odds, when we’ve been told we’re not
ready or that we shouldn’t try or that we can’t, generations of Americans have
responded with a simple creed that sums up the spirit of a people: Yes, we can. Yes,
we can. Yes, we can.

It was a creed written into the founding documents that declared the destiny of a
nation: Yes, we can.

It was whispered by slaves and abolitionists as they blazed a trail towards freedom
through the darkest of nights: Yes, we can.

It was sung by immigrants as they struck out from distant shores and pioneers who
pushed westward against an unforgiving wilderness: Yes, we can.

It was the call of workers who organized, women who reached for the ballot, a
president who chose the moon as our new frontier, and a king who took us to the
mountaintop and pointed the way to the promised land: Yes, we can, to justice and
equality.

Yes, we can, to opportunity and prosperity. Yes, we can heal this nation. Yes, we can
repair this world. Yes, we can.

…Together, we will begin the next great chapter in the American story, with three
words that will ring from coast to coast, from sea to shining sea: Yes, we can.

Barack Obama, 2008