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http://www.c-spanarchives.org/library/vidLink.php?b=1223432982&e=1223433254&n=001SEN. OBAMA: My wife, Michelle, is there, and she could give youa much longer list than I do. (Laughter.) And most of the time, Ilearn it by asking her.But look, the nature of the challenges that we're going to faceare immense. And one of the things that we know about the presidencyis that it's never the challenges that you expect, it's the challengesthat you don't that end up consuming most of your time.But here's what I do know. I know that I wouldn't be standinghere if it weren't for the fact that this country gave me opportunity.You know, I came from very modest means. I had a single mom, and mygrandparents raised me, and it was because of the help of scholarshipsand my grandmother scrimping on things that, you know, she might havewanted to purchase, and my mom at one point getting food stamps inorder for us to put food on the table. Despite all that, I was ableto go to the best schools on Earth. I was able to succeed in a waythat I could not have succeeded anywhere else in this country. Thesame is true for Michelle, and I'm sure the same is true for a lot ofyou.And the question in this election is, are we going to pass onthat same American dream to the next generation? Over the last eightyears, we've seen that dream diminish.Wages and incomes have gone down. People have lost their health careor are going bankrupt because they get sick.We've got young people who have got the grades and the will andthe drive to go to college. But they just don't have the money. Andwe can't expect that if we do the same things that we've been doing,over the last

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