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Sen. Barack Obama spoke at a rally in Grant Park in Chicago, Illinois, after winning the race for the White House Tuesday night. The following is an exact transcript of his speech.
Barack Obama speaks at a rally in Chicago, Illinois, after winning the presidency Tuesday night.

Hello, Chicago.

If there is anyone out there who still doubts that America is a place where all things are possible, who still wonders if the dream of our founders is alive in our time, who still questions the power of our democracy, tonight is your answer.

It’s the answer told by lines that stretched around schools and churches in numbers this nation has never seen, by people who waited three hours and four hours, many for the first time in their lives, because they believed that this time must be different, that their voices could be that difference.

It’s the answer spoken by young and old, rich and poor, Democrat and Republican, black, white, Hispanic, Asian, Native American, gay, straight, disabled and not disabled. Americans who sent a message to the world that we have never been just a collection of individuals or a collection of red states and blue states.

We are, and always will be, the United States of America.
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Monday was a holiday so we went over to the very unlikely place of Sugamo. It was listed in Metropolis as a street full of shops selling auspicious red panties for grannies. Indeed it was full of the elderly “with a glint in the eye” as the out and about Tokyo article suggested. They had some really cool stuff for good prices there too! It’s the perfect place to pick up unique items for gifts … I must remember that when the need arises. There is also a temple where people wait in line forever, buying a towel and rubbing a Buddha with it on the body part that pains them. They can then take the towel home to put on themselves for alleviation.

One of the coolest things about the place, though, is the park. It’s one of the nicest I’ve been to here in Japan (the only other contender is the zen one in Kyoto). It is a natural place. Most park/gardens in Japan have been overcome by sponsorship. You see a idyllic landscape covered in signs from Hitachi, Google, and Yahoo. EVERYWHERE. Well, Sugamo has thus far escaped such a despicable destruction of the peace which is the whole point of the place in the first place (at least for me). The attempt to avoid interruption even goes as far as disguising the trash receptacles. Somebody put some thought into this place.

Has been quite decent of late. The recent one mentioned that he didn’t understand why everyone talks about how much Sarah Palin looks like that chick on Saturday Night Live …. geesh …. Nooooo, she looks like that chick from King of the Hill!

heheehhe.

Ahh, should also mention that Michael Moore was on and has released his latest film for free on the net. It’s called Slacker Uprising.