Obama Nicks Clinton, Pledges to Unite Country

Tue, February 05, 2008 - 11:39 PM

While everyone waits to hear about California, Obama makes one more speech.

"This campaign for the presidency of the United States of America is different," he tells a cheering crowd in Chicago.

"It's different not because of me. It's different because of you...You're tired of being let down."

"This isn't about me and it isn't about Senator Clinton." He said he and Hillary Clinton were friends before and would be again and that she has been running "an outstanding race."

But he didn't sound like her friend when he then said, "This fall we owe the American people a real choice. We have to choose between change and more of the same, between looking backward and looking forward. We have to choose between our future and our past."

He said the Republicans would run a campaign based on the past, which is why the Democrats must run for the future. "We can do this. We can do this. But it will not be easy. It will require struggle and it will require sacrifice... So tonight I want to speak directly to all those Americans who have yet to join this movement but still hunger for change...

"I'm here to say tonight to all of you who harbor those doubts, we need you."

-- Marsha Mercer