Obama for America relead a full transcript of First Lady Michelle Obama's speech to the 2012 Democratic National Convention (as prepared for delivery).
Read the full text below:
Thank you so much, Elaine…we are so grateful for your family's rvice and sacrifice…and we will always have your back (支持你们).
Over the past few years as First Lady, I have had the extraordinary privilege of traveling all across this country.
And everywhere I've gone, in the people I've met, and the stories I've heard, I have en the very best of the American spirit.
I have en it in the incredible kindness and warmth that people have shown me and my family, especially our girls.
I've en it in teachers in a near-bankrupt (濒临破产)school district who vowed(发誓)to keep teaching without pay.
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个人账户养老金怎么计算I've en it in people who become heroes at a moment's notice, diving into harm's way to save others…flying across the country to put out a fire…driving for hours to bail out (摆脱困境)a flooded town.
And I've en it in our men and women in uniform and our proud military families…in wounded warriors who tell me they're not just going to walk again, they're going to run, and they're going to run marathons (马拉松)…in the young man blinded by a bomb in Afghanistan who said, simply, "…I'd give my eyes 100 times again to have the chance to do what I have done and what I can still do."
Every day, the people I meet inspire me…every day, they make me proud…every day they remind me how blesd we are to live in the greatest nation on earth.
Serving as your First Lady is an honor and a privilege…but back when we first came together four years ago, I still had some concerns about this journey we'd begun.
While I believed deeply in my husband's vision for this country…and I was certain he wou
ld make an extraordinary President…like any mother, I was worried about what it would mean for our girls if he got that chance.
How would we keep them grounded under the glare of the national spotlight? How would they feel being uprooted from their school, their friends, and the only home they'd ever known?
Our life before moving to Washington was filled with simple joys…Saturdays at soccer games, Sundays at grandma's hou…and a date night (约会之夜) for Barack and me was either dinner or a movie, becau as an exhausted mom, I couldn't stay awake for both.
And the truth is, I loved the life we had built for our girls…I deeply loved the man I had built that life with…and I didn't want that to change if he became President.
I loved Barack just the way he was.
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伦敦奥运会开幕式You e, even though back then Barack was a Senator and a presidential candidate…to
me, he was still the guy who'd picked me up for our dates in a car that was so rusted out, I could actually e the pavement going by through a hole in the pasnger side door…he was the guy who proudest posssion was a coffee table he'd found in a dumpster (垃圾箱), and who only pair of decent (得体的) shoes was half a size too small.
名字繁体But when Barack started telling me about his family – that's when I knew I had found a kindred spirit (志趣相投拍马屁的成语), someone who values and upbringing (教养)were so much like mine.
You e, Barack and I were both raid by families who didn't have much in the way of money or material posssions but who had given us something far more valuable – their unconditional love, their unflinching交通小知识（坚定不移的）sacrifice, and the chance to go places they had never imagined for themlves.
My father was a pump operator at the city water plant, and he was diagnod with Multiple Sclerosis when my brother and I were young.
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And even as a kid, I knew there were plenty of days when he was in pain…I knew there were plenty of mornings when it was a struggle for him to simply get out of bed.
But every morning, I watched my father wake up with a smile, grab his walker, prop himlf up against the bathroom sink, and slowly shave and button his uniform.
And when he returned home after a long day's work, my brother and I would stand at the top of the stairs to our little apartment, patiently waiting to greet him…watching as he reached down to lift one leg, and then the other, to slowly climb his way into our arms.
But despite the challenges, my dad hardly ever misd a day of work…he and my mom were determined to give me and my brother the kind of education they could only dream of.
And when my brother and I finally made it to college, nearly all of our tuition came from student loans and grants.
But my dad still had to pay a tiny portion of that tuition himlf.
And every mester, he was determined to pay that bill right on time, even taking out loans when he fell short.
He was so proud to be nding his kids to college…and he made sure we never misd a registration deadline becau his check was late.
