All language subtitles for Obama S01E02

BARACK OBAMA: I'm the son
of a Black man from Kenya

and a white woman from Kansas,

and in no other country on
Earth is my story even possible.

♪ (PENSIVE MUSIC PLAYS) ♪

I was interested in
issues of social change,

and I tried
community organizing.

I worked as a civil
rights attorney.

I've been continually
experimenting

with ways to bring about change.

He was restless, he was broke.

Wanted to go to Washington.

BOBBY RUSH: Well,
he had credentials,

but didn't have
community credibility.

MICHAEL ERIC DYSON: Who are you?

You know, a lot of Black
people, "This Ivy League person.

Who's ya mama? Who's ya daddy?
What's your background?"

JELANI COBB: Where I
first saw Barack Obama

was the 2004 Democratic
National Convention

where he gave the
keynote speech.

There is not a liberal America
and a conservative America.

There is the United
States of America.

That was a tremendous coming
out party for Barack Obama.

DAVID AXELROD: It became clearer
that he might be interested

in running for president.

I told him my concern
for you, Barack,

is not that you're gonna lose,
it's that you're gonna win.

INTERVIEWER: Okay,
you're rolling?

You, uh... Obviously,
you put a lot of thought

into, uh, the
decision to do this.

Have you given thought to,
when you're successful,

what would you want
people to say...

- Yeah.
- About how America

was different than the day
you walked in the door?

Well, I... I don't think
that we're going to solve

all of our problems
in eight years,

uh, or ten years.

You know, one of the
things about life,

both for each of us and
for the country as a whole,

is that there're always
going to be new challenges.

There are always going
to be new difficulties.

But I hope that at the end
of an Obama administration,

people will look back and say
"We changed our politics," uh,

so that people could take
pride in their government again

and could feel
that the government

was working for the people
and not just for the few.

That, at the end of an
Obama administration,

this country's a
little more fair,

and a little more just.

That our economy is a
little more balanced

and that people have a...
a slightly better chance

of achieving the American dream.

And if we set this country
on the right trajectory now,

then we... we won't have
solved every problem,

but we will have
laid the foundation

for future generations
to continue

what's been this great
experiment in democracy.

♪ (THEME MUSIC PLAYING) ♪

BARACK OBAMA: So this is
the Old State Capitol.

REPORTER: One thing you
can say with certainty

about Barack Obama is
that there has never been

another presidential
candidate like him.

He is ambitious and
just daring enough

to invite comparisons to one
of the few American presidents

who was elected with even
less political experience

than he has.

STEVE KROFT: Three years ago,
you were a state legislator

here in Springfield.

What makes you think
that you're qualified

to be president of
the United States?

It... You know, I think
we're in a moment of history

where... probably the
most important thing

we need to do is to bring
the country together.

- Nice to meet you. Hi.
- (INDISTINCT CHATTER)

OBAMA: And, one of the
skills that I bring to bear

is being able to pull together

the different strands
of American life

and focus on what
we have in common.

Hi, how are you?

- I'm Hillary Clinton...
- (CROWD CHEERING)

REPORTER 2: Senator
Hillary Clinton has burst

onto the campaign field.

I'm running for president,
and I'm in it to win it

- with your help!
- (CROWD CHEERING)

REPORTER 3: A recent
CBS news poll shows

that Black voters, who
could provide the key

to winning early
Democratic primaries,

are weary of Obama.

How important is race
in defining yourself?

I am rooted in the African
American community,

- but I'm not defined by it.
- (INDISTINCT CHATTER)

OBAMA: I am comfortable
in my racial identity,

but, uh, that's not all I am.

REPORTER 3: The stage is set
for tomorrow's announcement.

Senator Barack Obama
will make it official.

He is in this race
for president.

And while he has never
positioned himself

as "the Black candidate"

- (INDISTINCT CHATTER)
the question of his race

is, of course, and will
continue to be much discussed

and debated, especially
among African Americans.

(CROWD CHEERING) - KROFT: You
think the country is ready

- for a Black president?
- Yes.

You don't think it's
going to hold you back?

Well... No. You know, the...

I think i... If I don't
win this race, uh,

it will be because
of other factors.

It's... It's going to be
because I have not shown

to the American people

a vision for where the
country needs to go

that, uh, that they can embrace.

JEREMIAH WRIGHT: I was
scheduled the next morning

to be in Springfield.

Due to the implication,
Senator Obama called me.

He called me three
times that day.

He was very worried about
my prayer. (CHUCKLES)

And I said, "Why?"

He said, "You know, I
go to Iowa the next day,

don't say anything
in your prayer

that's gonna upset farmers."

And I said, man, I'm
the one talking about

how you brought Southern
Illinois together

to stop distrusting and
mistrusting Chicago.

I wouldn't do that in a prayer.

He called back, "David's
worried." Axelrod.

"David's worried. Are
you... Are you sure?"

I said, "I'm straight."

The third call,
he said, "Rev..."

Rolling Stone has
got their hands

on one of your sermons,

and David feels that
if I take you out

on the stage with me

to open up the
ceremony with a prayer,

the press will
only focus on you.

"You know, you can be
over the top sometimes."

I said, "What are
you talking about?"

- ♪ (DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
- (INDISTINCT CHATTER)

Oppressions.

JEREMIAH WRIGHT: I'm
thinking, what have I done?

What have I said?

What sermon of
mine have you heard

that's over the top?

Maybe we need to
declare war on racism.

- (CROWD CHEERING)
- WRIGHT: He said,

"I still want you to pray
for me and my family.

Can you do that
before I go out?"

I said, "Yes, I can do that."

He said, "I'll see
you in the morning."

(INDISTINCT CHATTER)

WRIGHT: I landed in Springfield.

There was a car waiting for me
that took me to the Capitol.

We joined hands in a circle,
and I prayed for the family,

I prayed for him,

I prayed a non-partisan
prayer, (CHUCKLES)

And asked that the candidate

most dedicated to the
principles of the founders

would be elected,

and that God would keep
him and his family safe.

Secret Service then took
Barack out to the platform.

I walked up with Michelle
and stood next to her

as he announced.

- (CROWD CHEERING)
- It was here in Springfield,

where North, South, East
and West come together,

that I was reminded of
the essential decency

of the American people.

Where I came to believe
that through this decency,

we can build a more
hopeful America.

And that is why, in the shadow
of the Old State Capitol,

where Lincoln once
called on a house divided

to stand together,

where common hopes and
common dreams still live,

I stand before you
today to announce

- my candidacy...
- (CROWD CHEERING)

For President of the
United States of America.

AL SHARPTON: When he
made the announcement

that day in Illinois, at
the same time in Virginia

there was a Black
Agenda Conference.

That I was there.

SHARPTON: I wish, you
know, all of this about,

uh... uh, our friend,
Barack, announcing today,

I wish Obama had announced here.

- Because Lincoln...
- (CROWD CHEERING)

Lincoln did not free us,

the abolitionist
movement freed us.

And I was not yet
there supporting him.

We've got to quit giving
the wrong people credit

for our history.

(CROWD CHEERING)

MICHAEL ERIC DYSON: Black
leaders were kind of resentful

'cause he kind of did an inrun

around Black leadership.

Most Black people who
rise in Black communities

have to come through
and kiss the ring

of the Black political
dignitaries and potentates.

- Obama leap frogged over them.
- (CROWD CHEERING)

By ourselves, this
change will not happen.

Divided, we are bound to fail.

But the life of a tall, gangly,
self-made Springfield lawyer

tells us that a different
future is possible.

(CROWD CHEERING)

CORNEL WEST: He makes the
announcement at Springfield,

tied to the legacy
of Abraham Lincoln,

which is a rich one. So,
we... we understood...

Okay, I mean,
political calculation,

every politician has to do that.

And you don't want to alienate
your white fellow citizens

- coming out of the box.
- (CROWD CHEERING)

He tells us that there
is power in words.

He tells us that there's
power in conviction.

That beneath all the
differences of race and region,

faith and station
we are one people.

WEST: He's got large numbers
of white brothers and sisters

who have fears and anxieties,

and he's got to speak
to them in such a way

that he holds us at arm's length
enough to say he loves us,

but doesn't get too
close to scare them off.

- (AUDIENCE APPLAUDING)
- So, he's walking this tightrope.

- (CROWD CHEERING)
- I want us to take up

the unfinished business
of perfecting our union

and building a better America!

I'm not for or against
him as a brother,

if there's any white
supremacist perception

of Barack, I defend him. Why?
'Cause I hate white supremacy.

But he's gotta be accountable.

And starting off in
Springfield, Illinois,

is not impressive to me.

- (AUDIENCE APPLAUDING)
- Hey.

He called me up. He
said "Professor West",

I... I heard what you
said about my speech,

"why did you say it?" I said, I
said it because I believed it.

(CROWD CHEERING)

WEST: He said "I was wondering
whether you would work with me?"

I said, "I've got one question."

What is your relation
to the legacy

- "of Martin Luther King, Jr.?"
- CROWD: Barack Obama!

WEST: "And how
will your campaign"

enact the struggle
against poverty,

militarism, racism,
and materialism?

Those are the evils that
Martin Luther King, Jr. saw

"right before he was murdered."

I can still sing
"We Shall Overcome!"

We shall overcome
because the arc

of the moral universe is long

- but it bends towards justice.
- Bends towards justice.

- It bends towards justice.
- (CROWD CHEERING)

WEST: He was very honest
with me and he said,

"Professor West, you know that
I'm... I'm not as radical as you are,

but I do see myself
directly connected

to the legacy of Martin
Luther King, Jr."

I said, "That sounds
wonderful to me."

(INDISTINCT CHATTER)

- Hillary!
- (CROWD CHEERING)

REPORTER: Forty-two years ago,
it would have been unimaginable.

Two Democratic
presidential contenders,

one a woman, another
an African American,

courting Black
voters in Alabama,

preaching to
overflowing churches.

Are you ready to march?

- (INDISTINCT CHATTER)
- ♪ (DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYING) ♪

DAVID REMNICK: Every year,

there's a
commemoration of Selma,

a great encounter
between the forces

of the civil rights movement
led by John Lewis and others.

- (INDISTINCT CLAMOR)
- and police with truncheons.

(INDISTINCT CHATTER)

REMNICK: And Hillary
Clinton and Barack Obama

want to make an
impression in Selma.

(INDISTINCT CHATTER)

REPORTER: Many black
voters say they're torn

between voting for the
African American, Obama,

- or sticking with the Clintons...
- (CROWD CHEERING)

Who've supported civil
rights for years.

That's the agonizing
choice for John Lewis,

bludgeoned during
the Selma March,

and now a congressman.

It was tough, it was
very... It was tough.

I supported, uh,
President Clinton

and got to know Hillary.

It was one of the
tough decisions

of my political life.

(INDISTINCT CHATTER)

REMNICK: The Clintons felt
that they had deep inroads

with the African American
community and with... with reason.

You'll remember in the... in
a certain New Yorker magazine,

Toni Morrison wrote
that Bill Clinton

was the first Black president,
said with some irony,

said with all kinds of... But
mostly with admiration too.

(CROWD CHEERING, APPLAUDING)

REMNICK: Obama gives his
speech at Brown Church.

And Hillary is down the
street at another church.

Yes, that long march to freedom

that began here has carried
us a mighty long way.

It's... It's a contest.

- Thank you, thank you.
- (CROWD CHEERING, APPLAUDING)

Oh, giving all praise
and honor to God...

- CROWD: Amen!
- For bringing us here today.

I just want to talk a
little bit about... Moses,

and Aaron and Joshua

because we are in
the presence today

- of a lot of Moseses.
- ATTENDEE: A lot.

Uh, we're in the
presence today of giants

whose shoulders we stand on.

♪ (DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYING) ♪

REMNICK: He begins
paying tribute

to what he calls the
"Moses generation."

Who's Moses?

Martin Luther King,
who did not see...

Famously says it in his speech,

"I might not get
there with you."

As great as Moses was

despite all that he did

leading a people out of bondage

he didn't cross over the river
to see the Promised Land.

God told him,
"Your job is done."

We're going to leave it
to the Joshua generation.

- (INDISTINCT CHATTER)
- to make sure it happens.

There are still some battles
that need to be fought.

"Some rivers that
need to be crossed."

Obama pronounces himself

the head of the
Joshua generation.

S... That's incredibly nervy.

Moses told the
Joshua generation,

"Don't forget where
you came from."

(INDISTINCT CHATTER)

And I worry sometimes
that the Joshua generation

in its success forgets
where it came from.

(INDISTINCT CHATTER)

Thinks it doesn't have to
make as many sacrifices.

SHERRILYN IFILL: You
think people in the 1940s

and 1950s woke up and said,

"We are the civil rights
generation, let's do this,"

as though it was,
you know, fantastic?

Our nostalgia has
made us look back

at that period of time
as though it was great,

but it was not great
getting hit in the head

on the Edmund Pettus Bridge.

These weren't fun times.

These were times of
commitment, when people decided

that they weren't
gonna take it anymore

and that they could make
this country better.

OBAMA: Folks complaining about
the quality of our government,

I understand there's something
to be complaining about.

- (CROWD CHUCKLING)
- I'm in Washington.

I see what's going on.

It means we can't
sit out elections.

It means we can't
just vote for people

and then not show up to
hold them accountable.

It means we can't
think that government

- is something other people do.
- But I'll tell you what.

I also know that, if
cousin Pookie would vote...

(CROWD CHEERING)

And... if Uncle Jethro
would get off the couch

- and stop watching SportsCenter...
- (CROWD APPLAUDING)

And go register some
folks and go to the polls,

we might have a different
kind of politics.

That's what the Moses
generation teaches us.

Kick off your bedroom slippers.
Put on your marching shoes.

- (CROWD CHEERING)
- Go do some politics.

Change this country!

That's what they teach.

To me, that event is
as much his declaration

to run for president

as his announcement
speech in Springfield,

but it's made particular
to the Black community.

(CROWD CHEERING, APPLAUDING)

(INDISTINCT CHATTER)

SPEAKER: You got my vote.
You got my vote, man.

SPEAKER: He got my vote. You
got my vote. You got my vote.

Hey, I appreciate that.

I think that there
is a assumption

on the part of some commentators

that somehow, the
Black community.

I... is so unsophisticated

that the minute you put
an African American face

up on the screen, that
they automatically say,

"That's our guy."

- I wanted to say hello.
- (INDISTINCT CHATTER)

OBAMA: A Black candidate
has to earn Black votes

the same way that he's
gotta earn white votes.

Uh, and... and that's
exactly how it should be.

(INDISTINCT CHATTER)

People were asking me,
"Who you gonna support?"

And I said that,
"Well, everybody

that's my color is not my kind."

I bring you the
senator from Illinois,

- Senator Barack Obama.
- (CROWD CHEERING, APPLAUDING)

SHARPTON: He had
always said to me,

"I'm not asking
you to support me,

- "just don't hurt me."
- Thank you!

There was concern. Is he
going to represent us?

Is he going to take
our issues seriously.

What does he know about us?
Who... We don't really know him.

I am proud to be a candidate

for the presidency of the
United States of America.

(CROWD CHEERING) - DYSON: And
Black people are practical,

we're no longer interested
in symbolic politics run

as a... a reaction
to white supremacy,

run as, you know, a... A
candidate who will protest.

No, we want real people
who are able to really win.

- (CROWD APPLAUDING)
- I am mindful

- that I wouldn't be here...
- (INDISTINCT CHATTER)

If it had not been for
Reverend Al Sharpton

- running for president...
- (CROWD APPLAUDING)

And Carol Moseley Braun
running for president,

and Jesse Jackson
running for president,

and Shirley Chisolm
running for president.

My candidacy changes
the present course

of our nation.

I got involved as
a protest, really.

Resisting how liberals
were taking us for granted

and dismissing us
and marginalizing us

in the process.

And so one thing led to another.

I felt that we had
the right to run

and the reason to
run and the capacity

to take our case
to the next level.

- Who would have thought?
- ATTENDEE: I would.

DYSON: We love Jesse Jackson.

In '88 he really, what?
Got seven million votes?

So that was tremendous.

After 38 contests...

I would be in front.

That's more than symbolic,
that was substance

- but we need more of that.
- (CROWD APPLAUDING)

I sense all across America
a desire for something new,

- a desire to turn the page...
- (CROWD APPLAUDING)

A desire to write a new chapter

in American history.

And if I have all of
you working with me,

then I guarantee you

that not only will
we win this election,

but we are also going
to transform America.

Thank you very much!

I appreciate you
guys, thank you!

(CROWD CHEERING, APPLAUDING)

SHARPTON: The more I talked
to him, the more I felt

that Barack Obama was authentic,

because he wouldn't say to me
what he knew I wanted to hear.

But he said to me
what I needed to hear.

And that was, "I
really do believe

we can make the
country go forward,

and that our community
can get what they want."

(CROWD CHEERING, APPLAUDING)

HOST: All right! We're
ready, thank you.

- How's it going, Cedar Rapids?
- (CROWD CONTINUE CHEERING)

Thank you! Thank you!

VALERIE JARRETT:
Early in the campaign,

our strategy was all
hands on deck in Iowa.

And the theory of the case
was that if we can win Iowa,

then he would be credible.

Not just to people
in white America

but also people
in Black America,

who were hesitant about
his chances of winning.

(INDISTINCT CHATTER)

- REPORTER: Is this fun to do?
- I love doing this.

This... This is what
politics is all about.

Can I say hello?

- SPEAKER: Yeah.
- SPEAKER 2: You sure can!

JARRETT: But that
strategy came with a cost,

and the cost was Black people
feeling somewhat neglected.

Now we came up with
a magic solution,

which was we asked Michelle
to go to South Carolina.

JELANI COBB: I don't think
that any of us ever thought

that we would see a Black
president in our lives.

I used to say that in 2007

there were only four
people in the United States

who thought that it was possible

for a Black man to
be elected president,

and they all lived
at the same address

on the South Side of Chicago.

- Hi, how are you?
- (INDISTINCT CHATTER)

- I'm Michelle Obama.
- Yes, ma'am.

Nice to see you.

DYSON: Black people
were very skeptical.

Any Black man that rises,
boy, it's gonna be tough,

and white folk are
gonna be pissed,

and you gonna be vulnerable,
and it might not work out.

MICHELLE OBAMA: Now I know
folks talk in the barbershops

and beauty salons.

I've heard it myself.
See people say, you know,

"That Barack Obama
he's a nice guy,

but I'm not sure America's
ready for a Black president."

She gave an extraordinary speech

that really spoke
to the feelings

in the African
American community,

the feelings of fear.

Of worrying, "Would he lose?"
Worrying, "Would he be hurt?"

I know that people understand
that Barack is special.

- (CROWD CHUCKLES)
- You don't see

this kind of man often.

And I equate it
to like, you know,

we all have that aunt,

that grandmother that bought
all that new furniture?

Spend her life savings on
it, and then what she do?

She puts plastic on
it to protect it.

(CROWD LAUGHING, APPLAUDING)

JARRETT: Everyone
in the audience,

which was comprised of primarily
African American women,

all knew about their
grandmother's couch.

I think folks just
want to... protect us

from the possibility
of being let down.

(CAMERA SHUTTERS CLICKING)

Not by us, but by the world.

She gave them permission by
acknowledging their fear,

but then said "Look, I
have the most to lose."

If you're willing to heed
Coretta Scott King's words

and not be afraid of the future,
but have faith in God's grace,

then I truly believe
that together,

there's no challenge
that we can't overcome.

- Thank you.
- (CROWD CHEERING, APPLAUDING)

KROFT: There are
African Americans

who don't think that
you're Black enough,

who don't think that you have
had the required experience.

The truth of the
matter is, you know,

when I'm walking down
the South Side of Chicago

and, uh, visiting
my barbershop, and

playing basketball in, uh, in
some of these neighborhoods,

those aren't, uh, those aren't
questions that I get asked.

ZARIFF: I didn't know
he was this or that.

Normally when you
come into a shop,

into Hyde Park Hair Salon,
you're just... you're yourself.

No titles.

There were some reporters
in the shop at one point

during the campaign, and one
of the reporters asked me,

"Oh, do you cut his hair
to appear like he's white?"

I'm like, "Excuse me?"

I said, "How do you do that?"

That was my reply,
but it stunned me.

It was unnecessary.

But it's necessary, I
guess, for a lot of people.

(CROWD CHEERING)

REPORTER: Barack Obama has said
that the big-city cab drivers

who once refused to pick him up

had no doubt about his
Blackness back then,

nor should anyone else now.

But recent polls
show Hillary Clinton

is the choice of
more Black Democrats,

and it's clear that
Obama's racial identity

gives pause to some.

SHARPTON: He was loudly
condemned by some.

And in private even more
loudly, "He wasn't Black enough.

He didn't have the
slave experience."

- (CROWD CHEERING)
- Thank you, Apollo!

COBB: There's always been a
kind of heterogeneous idea

of like what it is to be
Black in this country.

And so, what was more
important than his name

or his lineage was his
ability to culturally interact

on terms with African Americans.

(CROWD CHEERING)

COBB: One of the
things the campaign did

in South Carolina was
they released this DVD

of him going around
and talking to voters.

- Retired Sergeant Major, sir.
- Man, retired Sergeant Major.

- He still looks like a Sergeant Major.
- (CROWD LAUGHING)

And there's one point where
he goes into a barbershop

and he starts, uh, cracking
on this guy's shoes.

- How you doing, President?
- I'm doing good, man.

(LAUGHS)

And check out those shoes too.

Check 'em out.

- Man.
- (INDISTINCT CHATTER, LAUGHTER)

You got some, you got
some. What's that?

- I dunno...
- You got some alligator?

And that was just something

that only a person
who was comfortable

- in this culture would do.
- (CROWD CHEERING)

- Are you fired up?
- CROWD: Fired up!

Are you ready to go?

REPORTER: Of course there are
whites who will never vote for Obama

- because he is Black.
- Let's go change the world.

I don't want to sound prejudiced
or anything, but for one, um,

I'm not gonna...

I don't want to vote
for a... a colored man

- to be our president.
- (BUS ENGINE REVVING)

REPORTER: Barack Obama's bus
rode through rural Iowa Monday,

as he takes his message to
small towns in the state.

We'll show that we value
farming in this country

by launching a program
that gives a hand

to the next
generation of farmers

and helps them buy
their first farms.

REPORTER 2: It's
an interesting move

just two weeks
before the caucus,

because rural Iowa is
certainly not Obama's base.

The question is whether
or not Obama can connect

with the primarily-white
rural voters here.

VOTER: It's still my
neighbors in small towns

who don't have jobs.

Uh, it's still
people in my parish

who are struggling with
retirement incomes,

and those are no different
whether we live in Chicago

or... or in, uh, Laurens, Iowa.

OBAMA: How many people
here definitely plan

to caucus tomorrow?
Raise your hands.

- (CROWD CHEERING)
- That's what I'm talking about.

DAVID AXELROD: The
campaign picked up momentum

over the course of
the year in Iowa.

We knew that if we didn't win
the Iowa caucuses we were done.

We had to... We had to
break through there.

REPORTER: Tonight, the
Democratic front runners

are in a frantic drive
to rally supporters

and win over converts.

REPORTER 2: Barack Obama,
Hillary Clinton, John Edwards

have been virtually tied

according to some
of the late polling

going on surrounding this race.

REPORTER 3: And just so
supporters know what's at stake...

Tomorrow night, the
future of the free world

- is riding on your shoulders.
- (CROWD LAUGHING)

- Don't feel any pressure.
- (CROWD LAUGHING)

OFFICIAL: Thirty-one,
32, 33. Obama...

COBB: I was living in Atlanta
and there was a watch party.

And I... I don't
think... very many people

really, really thought that
he was going to win Iowa.

And then all of a
sudden, he won Iowa.

(CROWD CHEERING)

OBAMA: They said this
country was too divided,

but on this January night,

at this defining
moment in history,

you have done what
the cynics said

- we couldn't do.
- (CROWD CHEERING)

COBB: I remember like, leaving,

and there was a white guy
wearing a t-shirt that said,

"He's Black, I'm proud."

And then right after
that, I saw a t-shirt

that had Martin Luther King

and Barack Obama
next to each other.

And then I saw that
t-shirt everywhere

in the days that followed.

DYSON: After he won in Iowa,

Black people were like,
"What's that? What's his name?"

Barack Oberman? What's his name?

Yeah, let's we'll
do... Yeah, he's good!

- "He's like really good."
- (CROWD CHEERING)

DYSON: Hillary Clinton
was darn near knighted

as the heir apparent.

It was her turn, she had waited
as a woman in this country.

But Obama swooped right in

and figured out, now,
it's kind of my time.

CROWD: Obama! Obama!

So he earned it, right,
the old fashioned way.

Shoe leather, meeting
people, winning at the polls,

and Black people were like,
"This man could really win!"

- How's it going, New Hampshire?
- (CROWD CHEERING)

REPORTER: He
rocketed out of Iowa

and into New Hampshire

and this morning
woke up to a poll

showing a comfortable lead
here over Senator Clinton.

- (CROWD CHEERING) - REPORTER
2: In his stump speech,

he now says "we" instead
of "I." The implication?

What happened in Iowa was
the start of a movement.

REPORTER 3: Obama's victory
has recast the Democratic race,

creating new pressure on
Senator Hillary Clinton.

HILLARY CLINTON: I did very,
very well with people over 45,

and I didn't do as well
with people under 30.

And I take
responsibility for that.

(INDISTINCT CHATTER)

REPORTER 4: The Obama crowds
are large and energized,

they also tend to be young.

OBAMA: That's why you're here,

and in one day's time

- we can stand up for change...
- (CROWD CHEERING)

That all of us can believe in.

(CROWD CHEERING)

REPORTER 5: In another
corner of the state,

a different side
of Hillary Clinton.

You know, I have so many
opportunities from this country.

I just don't want to
see us fall backwards.

- No. So...
- (CROWD APPLAUDING)

(CROWD CHEERING)

Thank you! (LAUGHS)

OBAMA: Well, first of all,

I want to congratulate
Senator Clinton

on a hard-fought victory
here in New Hampshire.

She did an outstanding job,

give her a big
round of applause.

(CROWD CHEERING)

I want, especially, to
thank New Hampshire.

Over the last week,
I listened to you.

And in the process,
I found my own voice.

(CROWD CHEERING)

REPORTER: New Hampshire
voters have redefined the race

for The White House,

but what drove people to
vote the way they did?

Even Hillary Clinton's
own tracking poll

showed that she was
going to lose big.

Something happened
in that last 48 hours

that changed people's minds.

Hillary Clinton retooled
her campaign a little bit.

Started getting
out of the bubble,

started actually
talking to voters,

answering all of
their questions,

had an emotional moment,
humanized herself.

Is it possible people
lied to pollsters

saying they were
going to vote for

for an African American
candidate and then not?

I've gotten a number of
emails now from people

in different campaigns,
Democratic strategists,

other people out there saying,
"Well, could it be a race?

Could it be a race?
Could it be a race?"

(AIRPLANE ENGINE REVVING)

REPORTER 2: We turn next
to the campaign trail.

The politics of race
and possible trouble

for the Clinton campaign.

It involves comments
Senator Clinton made

about Martin Luther King,

and something Bill Clinton
said about Barack Obama.

- (CROWD CHEERING)
- This whole thing

is the biggest fairy-tale
I've ever seen.

REPORTER 3: Clinton said
what he was describing

as a fairytale was
the media portrayal

- of Obama's record on Iraq.
- (INDISTINCT CHATTER)

REPORTER 4: As the
Democratic campaign

moves forward, Hillary
Clinton is backpedaling.

So, the Obama campaign
is deliberately

- distorting this...
- REPORTER 5: Today on Meet the Press,

she sought to blame Barack
Obama for the firestorm caused

by a remark of hers
in New Hampshire.

Dr. King's dream, uh,
began to be realized

when President
Lyndon Johnson passed

the Civil Rights Act of 1964.

REPORTER 5: She said she
did not mean to belittle

Dr. King's accomplishments,

which is exactly how many
African Americans took it.

REPORTER 2: Sources in
the Obama campaign say

African American
leaders are outraged

and believe the Clinton campaign
is using racial code words.

REPORTER 6: His fairy-tale
comment was all over talk radio,

and there was an email
being sent around

with a detailed list of
comments from the Clintons.

- (CROWD CHEERING)
- REPORTER 6: All this led

experts to worry that
this historic campaign

between a woman and an
African American man

now threatens to divide
Democrats along racial lines.

TIM RUSSERT: In terms of
accountability, Senator Obama,

Senator Clinton
on Sunday told me

that the Obama campaign had
been pushing this story line.

And true enough,
your Press Secretary

in South Carolina, four pages

of alleged comments made
by the Clinton people

about the issue of race.

In hindsight, do you
regret pushing this story?

Well, not only in hindsight,
but, uh, going forward.

I think that our supporters,
our staff get overzealous.

Uh, they start saying
things that I would not say.

And it is my
responsibility to make sure

that we're setting a clear
tone in our campaign.

(INDISTINCT CHATTER)

AXELROD: South Carolina is
the first southern primary.

It was a crucial
primary for both us

and for Hillary Clinton.

The majority of
voters who participate

in the Democratic primary
there are African American...

(INDISTINCT CHATTER)

But Barack needed white
votes as well and wanted them

because he didn't want
to win on that basis.

I wanna be so persuasive
that nobody leaves this room

thinking they should
vote for anybody else.

(CROWD CHEERING)

I want everybody here
to vote for Barack.

Everybody!

REPORTER: Barack Obama
hit the lunch crowd

at a restaurant in Columbia,

where he greeted n
early every customer.

Nearly all of them white.

Of course, we can take a
picture, what's your name?

- Sean.
- Sean.

REPORTER: Polls show
he's been losing support

among white voters here,

and spent much of the week
trying to downplay race.

He's blamed the
media for hyping it,

and encouraged voters
to look past color.

If I came to you
and I had polka dots

- but... but you were convinced...
- (INDISTINCT CHATTER)

That I was gonna put more
money into your pockets,

and help you pay for college,

and help keep America
safe, you'd say, "Okay."

You know, I... I wish he
didn't have polka dots,

- "but I'm still voting for him."
- (CROWD APPLAUDING)

COBB: Partly out of curiosity,

and partly out of
legitimate support,

I decided that I was going
to go to South Carolina.

We are in this place,
Denmark, South Carolina,

on the Get Out the
Vote operation.

We walk up to this house,

and this older white
woman comes to the door

and tells me not
to come any closer.

And I said, "Okay." And, you
know, I stopped where I was

and she said, "I already know
the date and I know the time,

I'm going to be right there
to vote for Senator Obama."

(CROWD CHEERING, APPLAUDING)

REPORTER: All the signs
have been positive.

Encouraging polls,
the big crowds,

the confident campaign,

but Obama has seen this
before in New Hampshire.

Who can you trust to be there
for you in sunshine and storm?

- CROWD: Hillary!
- REPORTER 2: For her last big rally

in South Carolina,

Hillary Clinton called in
her number one surrogate.

REPORTER 3: The former
president today sought

to lower expectations

suggesting Obama has the
edge here because he's Black.

Jesse Jackson won South
Carolina twice in '84 and '88.

And he ran a good campaign,

and Senator Obama's run
a good campaign here,

he's run a good
campaign everywhere.

He's got a good...
He's a good candidate

with a good organization.

When Bill Clinton came out
at the South Carolina primary

and, uh, tried to dismiss
the significance... Kind of,

"Well, even Jesse
Jackson won that."

What are you saying?

- (INDISTINCT CHATTER)
- SHARPTON: Translation,

even if he wins,

Obama is just this
year's Jesse Jackson.

(CROWD CHEERING)

CROWD: Yes, we can! Yes,
we can! Yes, we can!

- Yes, we can! Yes, we can!
- Thank you. Thank you!

CROWD: Yes, we can! Yes,
we can! Yes, we can!

- Yes, we can! Yes, we can!
- Thank you, everybody. Thank you!

OBAMA: You know,
over two weeks ago,

- we saw the people of Iowa...
- CROWD: Whoo!

Proclaim that our time
for change has come.

(CROWD CHEERING)

But there were those who doubted

this country's desire
for something new.

Who said Iowa was a fluke
not to be repeated again.

Well, tonight, the
cynics who believed

that what began in the snows
of Iowa was just an illusion,

were told a different story

by the good people
of South Carolina.

(CROWD CHEERING)

AXELROD: South Carolina
was a beautiful night.

He got about 30 percent of
white votes in the state

in addition to a
majority of Black votes,

and built the
multi-racial coalition

that we had hoped for.

Completely outstripped
everyone's expectations.

(CROWD CHEERING)

AXELROD: And in that hall
the night when he spoke,

there were people chanting
race doesn't matter.

(CROWD CHANTING)

AXELROD: Now that was premature.

That was more of a
hope than a reality,

but this was a big
moment in the campaign,

and I think a big
moment for the country.

I did not travel around this
state over the last year

and see a white South Carolina
or a Black South Carolina.

- I saw South Carolina.
- (CROWD CHEERING)

This is not, though they
are enormously important,

Jesse Jackson,
Reverend Al Sharpton,

stalwarts of the
Civil Rights movement.

But those who were perceived to
be, necessarily so, as people

who could channel Black anger,
to express Black grievance,

to realize Black progress.

With Barack Obama, there's
a different moment here.

- (CROWD CHEERING)
- I saw what America is,

and I believe in what
this country can be.

That is the country I see.
That is the country you see,

but now it is up to us

to help the entire nation
embrace this vision.

(CROWD CHEERING)

DYSON: He really resonated
in a more transcendent way.

In a way that was informed
by a broader sweep

of the American possibility,

because his own life
was the product of that.

He gave an interracial
pedigree to hopefulness.

(AIRPLANE ENGINE REVVING)

I know what America can
achieve, I've seen it!

I've lived it!

And with Barack Obama
we can do it again!

(CROWD CHEERING)

AXELROD: The Kennedy endorsement

was incredibly
important for Obama.

Not because Kennedy would
bring large numbers of votes,

but because Kennedy was
an establishment figure

and his willingness
to lay hands on Obama

and say he's ready
to be president

really spoke to concerns
that people had about that.

ANNOUNCER: The next president
of the United States,

- Hillary Clinton!
- (CROWD CHEERING)

REPORTER: The endorsement is a
huge blow to Hillary Clinton,

a longtime friend and
colleague of Ted Kennedy.

REPORTER 2: The senior
senator from Massachusetts

repeatedly scolded Bill Clinton

for his divisive tactics
in South Carolina.

- (CROWD APPLAUDING) - REPORTER 3:
For Bill Clinton, who has always

cast himself as President
Kennedy's political heir,

today's endorsement
is a slap in the face.

We need to nominate somebody
with the experience,

and the fortitude,
and the know-how

to take whatever
they send our way

- and send it right back.
- (CROWD APPLAUDING)

REPORTER 4: As of tonight, our latest
CBS News Democratic delegate count

shows Obama leading
Clinton by 97.

So the battle goes on,
and with ten straight wins

- momentum is on Obama's side.
- (CROWD CHEERING)

This is our moment!

This is our time!

REPORTER 5: And another blow
today to the Clinton campaign.

She's lost 11 straight primaries
and caucuses to Barack Obama

and now Clinton has lost a
very important supporter.

Congressman John Lewis of
Georgia switched sides today.

- He is now backing Obama.
- (INDISTINCT CHATTER)

He represented something new.

He represented a real
sense of hope and optimism.

(CROWD CHEERING)

JOHN LEWIS: It was
daring, just daring.

DYSON: It became uncomfortable
for Black people to explain,

as political leaders, why
they weren't with Obama.

So, it's not that they swayed
the people to support Obama.

Obama's love among the people

swayed the leaders
to come along.

CROWD: Obama!

SHARPTON: I felt that
it was my responsibility

to be true to the cause.

What really was going
to help the cause?

Putting a guy like this
in The White House,

if we could help do that
and not get in the way.

Or playing to the...

What, uh, my pastors
call the "cheap seats"

of just rah-rah-rah, and
we end up with nothing.

- (INDISTINCT CHATTER)
- Thanks for being here. Thank you.

Thank you very much.

REPORTER: Now moving
on to the Republicans,

John McCain clinched the
nomination last night.

And today, he went over
to The White House.

Last night, both Senator Obama
and Senator Clinton called

to congratulate me.

I pledged at that time
and I pledge again,

a respectful campaign.

A respectful campaign
based on the issues

and based on the
stark differences

and vision that we have
for the future of America.

- (CROWD CHEERING)
- How's it going Mississippi?

REPORTER 2: In another
win for Barack Obama

last night in Mississippi,

he regained a significant
lead over Hillary Clinton

in the pledge delegate count.

But the talk of the
Democratic race today

was once again about race,

and prominent Democrat
Geraldine Ferraro's assertion

that Obama wouldn't have gotten
this far if he was not Black.

GERALDINE FERRARO:

HILLARY: I rejected
what she said,

and I certainly do repudiate it.

And, uh, regret deeply that,
uh, you know, it was said.

I... This... This
is politics, uh,

and, you know,
part of the problem

that we have right now is that,
uh, we have too much at stake

to be engaged in these politics.

You know, uh, campaigns
are really long oral exams

and character tests
for the presidency.

Ours really came on a
day in March of 2008.

I served Trinity
church for 36 years.

I had never taken a sabbatical.

So, I told the congregation,

Don't call, don't
text, don't email,

I'm going on sabbatical.

First thing we're gonna do
is go on a family vacation.

We're going on a cruise.

REPORTER: We want to turn
now to an in-depth look

at a very important figure
in Democratic frontrunner,

Barack Obama's life.

His long-time pastor, the
Reverend Jeremiah Wright.

Reverend Wright
has made a number

of controversial
statements over the years.

Now that Obama is
a national figure,

the question is,

could the Reverend
become a liability?

COBB: The media had
been taking a hit,

saying that they were going
too soft on Barack Obama

and that they were having
you know this, basically,

love fest, and that
he hadn't gotten, uh,

the kind of critical coverage

that a presidential
candidate needs.

And so they go to
Jeremiah Wright.

(CROWD CHEERING) - The angels
in Heaven were singing,

God never fails!

ABC had all these tapes of
Jeremiah Wright's sermons,

and there were millions of them
and it kind of wasn't a priority.

They had a lot to do
during the campaign.

♪ (THEME MUSIC PLAYING) ♪

REMNICK: Most of them are long
and irrelevant to anything.

WRIGHT: Bless the
Lord. Oh, my soul.

♪ (HYMN PLAYING) ♪

And then they stumble upon
a couple of these sermons

that seemed incendiary.

The government gives
them the drugs,

builds bigger prisons,
passes a three-strike law,

and then wants us to
sing "God Bless America"?

No, no, no, not
God Bless America,

God Damn America!

That's in the bible, for
killing innocent people.

- (CROWD CHEERING)
- God Damn America.

They took clips and
wove them together

into, you know, the most
incendiary things he had said

over a 30-year career
in like two minutes.

Uh, but it had the
desired effect.

We have supported
state terrorism

against the Palestinians
and Black South Africans,

- and now we are indignant!
- (CROWD APPLAUDING)

Because the stuff we
have done overseas

is now brought right back
into our own front yards!

They were deeply critical
of American foreign policy

and in a language

that was, uh, way
more inflammatory

than most of America White
America, could stomach.

And Obama had found a
home in this church.

♪ (SOFT MUSIC PLAYING) ♪

WRIGHT: Cruise ships only
broadcast certain stations.

They had Fox News on the boat,

and were playing a... a clip

from a sermon I preached

the Sunday after 9/11/01.

I say, "What?"

So, we started
changing the channel.

It was on all of the channels.

I want to show you a clip
from Barack Obama's pastor,

it's getting a lot
of play right now.

We bombed Hiroshima,
we bombed Nagasaki!

What you're about to hear
is inflammatory to some,

to others, harsh as it
sounds, it's the truth.

And we nuked far more than
the thousands in New York

and the Pentagon and
we never batted an eye.

Obviously, his remarks
are incendiary.

It comes at a
particularly bad time.

AXELROD: Obama was
in the Senate the day

this "greatest hits of
Reverend Wright" surfaced.

He was voting all day.

I don't think he had a sense
of how much it had captured

the imagination of the media.

- (CROWD CHEERING)
- God damn America.

REPORTER: We tried to
reach Reverend Wright

to get his reaction now

to the fallout from his
fire and brimstone sermon,

but we're told he's on
vacation and not available.

On a cruise ship they
sit you at one table

where you sit every meal.

The white families at
the table next to ours

had requested to be moved.

They don't want to sit next
to an "anti-American racist."

A what?

And they will not
only attack you

if you try to point
out what's going on

in white America, US of KKK A.

This is going to scare the
hell out of white people,

- and you know that that's true.
- No, it's designed

to attempt to scare.

Martin Luther King Jr.'s
last sermon was gonna be.

"Why America may go to hell."

It was not "America
should go to hell."

It didn't... It was not
"America ought to go to hell."

It may go to hell

because if you don't come
to terms with racism,

poverty, militarism,
materialism,

those evils are gonna
suck all the good stuff

out of your democracy.

That's in part what
Jeremiah Wright

was talking about.

Barack knows what it means

to be a Black man
living in a country

and a culture that is controlled
by rich, white people.

Hillary can never know that.

Hillary ain't never
been called a (BLEEP).

That became for us
the cruise from hell.

I stayed in the cabin
most of the time

so that the nasty
remarks, name calling

would not be something my
family had to be exposed to.

But they heard that, my
grandkids were hearing this.

Breaking news at this hour,
after a day of headlines

about the controversial remarks
by Pastor Jeremiah Wright

of the Trinity United
Church of Christ,

Pastor Wright is
quote "no longer

on the Obama presidential
campaign committee."

WRIGHT: I was a chairperson of
his religious advisory team.

I saw myself... get dismissed

from that position
on television.

Your campaign saying this
afternoon it had no plans

to ask Reverend
Wright to step down.

Obviously, that has changed.

Did he step down tonight or
did you ask him to leave?

You know, I... I think
there was a recognition

that, uh, he's on the
verge of retirement,

he's taking a sabbatical, uh,
and that it was important, uh,

for him to step out
of the spotlight

in this situation.

Unfortunately, as an
American politician,

you can't get too close to
that kind of prophetic fire

or you get burned.

So, I can understand
Barack, in some sense,

wanting to get a
distance as a politician.

I... These particular statements
that have been gathered,

uh, are ones that I
strongly objected to

strongly condemned. I...
Had I heard them in church,

I would have
expressed that concern

directly, uh, to
Reverend Wright.

So, I didn't become familiar
with these until, uh, recently.

But on a personal level

and on a very deep,
uh, truthful level,

you had to try to teach people

that there are voices in
our society that are radical

that are not up for elections.

AXELROD: He called me
that night and said,

"I want to make a speech.

I want to make a speech
about race, and I want to put

this Reverend Wright
issue in context."

And we said,
"Okay." And he said,

"And I want to do it
no later than Tuesday."

This was Friday.

JARRETT: He felt that he
owed the American people

an explanation

and that they had
to hear it directly

and honestly from him.

SHARPTON: A very
painful thing for Obama

was dealing with his
pastor, very painful.

And it was very painful
to the community

because people were angry

because they were trying to
act like he threw his pastor

in front of the bus.

AXELROD: We set up this speech
for the Constitution Center

in Philadelphia

on the theory that if
you're gonna go down,

go down on a big stage.

(INDISTINCT CHATTER)

AXELROD: The anxiety in
the room was palpable.

And he turned to me
and said, "You know,

I'm gonna go out there
and give this speech..."

(CROWD CHEERING)

"And people will either
accept it or they won't."

Thank you. Thank you.

- AXELROD: "And if they don't..."
- Thank you. Thank you.

"Then I just won't be president,

but at least I'll have said
what I think needs to be said."

He said, "That's
worth something."

We the people, in order to
form a more perfect union

221 years ago

in a hall that still
stands across the street,

a group of men gathered
and with these simple words

launched America's improbable
experiment in democracy.

The document they produced
was eventually signed,

but ultimately unfinished.

It was stained by this nation's
original sin of slavery.

I chose to run for president
at this moment in history

because I believe deeply

that we cannot solve the
challenges of our time

unless we solve them together.

Unless we perfect our union.

ELIZABETH ALEXANDER: I
think what was extraordinary

about Obama's
so-called race speech

is the fact that
it happened at all.

There was no precedent.

I mean, yes, Black people
had run for president before,

but at this stage in the game,

there wasn't a clearly
marked road that said,

this is how this kind
of Black person deals

with people trying
to disparage him

and take him down
in the name of race.

Throughout the first
year of this campaign,

against all predictions
to the contrary

we saw how hungry the
American people were

for this message of unity.

Despite the temptation
to view my candidacy

through a purely racial lens,

we won commanding
victories in states

with some of the
whitest populations

in the country.

Obama was forced to
give a speech on race,

he was forced to.

He was in trouble.

This is not to say that race

has not been an issue
in this campaign.

And yet, it's only been in
the last couple of weeks

that the discussion of
race in this campaign

has taken a particularly
divisive turn.

COBB: Smaller things had ended
presidential candidacies.

Howard Dean just yelled off key

and that was it, you know,
his presidency is done.

I have already condemned,
in unequivocal terms,

the statements of
Reverend Wright

that have caused
such controversy,

and in some cases pain.

But the truth is, that isn't
all that I know of the man.

The man I met more
than 20 years ago

is a man who helped introduce
me to my Christian faith

and who, over 30
years, has led a church

that serves the community

by doing God's
work here on earth.

The church contains, in full,
the kindness and cruelty,

the fierce intelligence,
and the shocking ignorance,

the struggles and
successes, the love

and, yes, the
bitterness and biases

that make up the Black
experience in America.

I can no more disown him

than I can disown
the Black community.

I can no more disown him

than I can disown my
white grandmother.

A woman who helped raise me,

a woman who sacrificed
again and again for me,

a woman who loves me

as much as she loves
anything in this world,

but a woman who once confessed
her fear of Black men

who passed her by on the street.

And who, on more
than one occasion,

has uttered racial
or ethnic stereotypes

that made me cringe.

These people are part of me.

And they are a part of America,
this country that I love.

As opposed to just cutting
Jeremiah Wright off immediately,

uh, or even kind of saying.

"It's not possible
for me to win,"

he does exactly what a professor

or a teacher would do
in that circumstance,

which is step into
the middle of it

and look at it, panoramically,

and then try to understand
it for what it is.

Under other circumstances,
we would call that a class.

In Barack Obama's circumstance,

this is a public
address or speech.

The fact is that the
comments that have been made

and the issues
that have surfaced

over the last few weeks

reflect the complexities
of race in this country

that we've never
really worked through.

A part of our union that we
have not yet made perfect.

We do not need to recite here

the history of racial
injustice in this country,

but we do need to
remind ourselves

that so many of the
disparities that exist

between the African
American community

and the larger American
community today

can be traced directly
to inequalities

passed on from an
earlier generation

that suffered under the
brutal legacy of slavery

and Jim Crow.

The anger is real.
It is powerful.

And to simply wish it away,

to condemn it without
understanding its roots,

only serves to widen the
chasm of misunderstanding

that exists between the races.

In fact, a similar anger exists

within segments of
the white community.

Most working and
middle-class white Americans

don't feel that they've
been particularly privileged

by their race.

Their experience is the
immigrant experience.

As far as they're concerned,
no one handed them anything.

They built it from scratch.

So, when they are told
to bus their children

to a school across town,

when they hear an
African American

is getting an advantage
in landing a good job

or a spot in a good college

because of an injustice that
they themselves never committed,

when they're told
that their fears

about crime in
urban neighborhoods

are somehow prejudiced,
resentment builds over time.

Now I believe in staying in
contact with the humanity

of my precious white
brothers and sisters,

but they need to understand

that in a white
supremacist civilization,

you've been the beneficiary

of unbelievable privilege
and entitlement,

that you have a
right to justice,

you have a right to fairness,

but your resentment will
never have the same weight,

morally and spiritually,
as a Black rage

who had to come to terms with
foremothers and forefathers

raped and violated and
exploited and lynched.

And when he presented
that equivalent,

it made me upset. I said,
"You're not telling the truth!"

To wish away the resentments
of white Americans,

to label them as
misguided or even racist,

without recognizing
they are grounded

in legitimate concerns, this
too widens the racial divide

and blocks the path
to understanding.

It was the attempt, the desire,

to create a language of embrace.

And his critics will say

that's, uh, a language
that, um, ignores reality.

That it's too idealistic.

But that's him.

The profound mistake of
Reverend Wright's sermons

is not that he spoke about
racism in our society,

it's that he spoke as if
our society was static,

as if no progress had been
made, as if this country,

a country that has
made it possible

for one of his own members

to run for the highest
office in the land

and build a coalition

- of white and Black...
- (AUDIENCE APPLAUDING)

Latino, Asian, rich,
poor, young and old,

is still irrevocably
bound to a tragic past.

(CROWD APPLAUDING)

WRIGHT: The Senator came
to my home to ask me

to stop preaching until
after the election.

I've been preaching
this way for 50 years

regardless of who's
running for what office.

Carol Moseley Braun, Harold
Washington, Barack Obama.

That doesn't change or affect
or alter the gospel in any way.

He then paid me one of
the highest compliments

I've ever had paid to me.

He said to me, "You know
what your problem is?"

I said, "What's my problem?"

"As a preacher, you have
to speak the truth."

I said, "That's a
good problem to have."

♪ (SOLEMN MUSIC PLAYING) ♪

INTERVIEWER: Do you consider
yourself a Black man

- or an American first?
- An American, absolutely.

Is there a difference

between Black patriotism
and white patriotism?

No, I don't think so.

I mean, what...
what I think is that

the African American community

is much more familiar

with some of the darker aspects

of American life and
American history.

I think that they
understand America much less

- as a marching band playing...
- (CROWD CHEERING)

John Philip Sousa,

and they understand
America much more

as a jazz composition
with blue notes.

And... And I think those
are different things.

And so, the African
American community

can express great rage and
anger about this country

and love it all the same.

(CROWD CHEERING)

OBAMA: Tonight, Minnesota...

(INDISTINCT CHATTER)

After 54 hard-fought contests...

CROWD: We love you, Obama!

Our primary season has
finally come to an end.

(CROWD CHEERING)

Because you chose to
listen not to your doubts

or your fears,

but to your greatest hopes
and highest aspirations.

Tonight, we mark the end
of one historic journey

with the beginning of another.

- (CROWD CHEERING)
- A journey...

a journey that will bring a
new and better day to America.

Because of you,

tonight I can stand here and say

that I will be the
Democratic nominee

for the president of the
United States of America.

(CROWD CHEERING)

BRIAN WILLIAMS: He is 46 years
old and his life has been

an extraordinary
American journey.

Last night he made
history by becoming

the presumptive nominee
of the Democratic party.

The first African American
major party nominee.

He turned away Hillary Clinton,

the first woman to
get as far as she did.

KATIE COURIC: This
historic victory

comes with a two-fold challenge,

battling Senator John McCain

while trying to unify a deeply
divided Democratic party.

So reporters don't
unpack your bags,

it'll be a long hot summer.

KROFT: Senator McCain
talks a great deal

about his experience as
a... as a prisoner of war...

- Right. Right.
- And how it has shaped him.

What is the thing
that has shaped you?

It... The story for me is

of being born into pretty
humble circumstances.

Not having a dad in the house.

But having a mother and
grandparents who loved me,

who instilled in
me some pretty, uh,

you know, Midwestern
Kansas values of hard work

and stick-to-it-ness,
and honesty

and looking out for
other people, uh,

and... and what's shaped
me most powerfully,

maybe because I'm half
Black and half white,

uh, that a big chunk
of my childhood,

I was sort of an outsider,
I didn't quite fit anywhere.

Part of what shapes me is...

Is, uh, being able
to find a connection

with all kinds of
different people,

and... and want to
bring them together

and bridge misunderstandings,
and... and bridge conflict,

so that we can actually
get things done.

And that, I think is something
that led me into public service.

And in some ways,
that's something

very profoundly
American about me.

A fist bump? A pound?
A terrorist fist jab?

The gesture everyone seems
to interpret differently.

- (CROWD CHEERING)
- REPORTER: Rumors and innuendo

are as much a part of
a presidential campaign

as flag pins and
chicken dinners.

But after a week
of radio talk shows

and websites spreading the word

that Michelle
Obama may have used

a racial epithet against
white people in a speech...

Some, uh... uh,
reference to white people

as "whities," allegedly.

And continuing whispers about
whether Obama is a Muslim,

the campaign has launched
a new counter offensive,

a website. It's called
FightTheSmears dot com

and is devoted to debunking
false rumors about the Obamas.

First it was my name,
right? That was a problem.

And then there was the
Muslim-email thing.

This particular one
alleges, among other things,

that you took the oath
of office on the Quran

- and not the Bible?
- (CHUCKLES)

Now it's the patriotism thing.

Barack Obama refuses
to, uh, salute the flag,

he refuses to wear a flag pin.

And my wife's comment.

- (CROWD CHEERING)
- Let me tell you something,

for the first time
in my adult lifetime,

I'm really proud of my country.

She already clarified herself.
She was very clear about it.

I'm proud of this
country, and I'm proud

of the fact that
people are ready

to roll up their sleeves
and do something phenomenal.

There's always some
nonsense going on

in general elections, right?

If it wasn't this,
it'd be something else.

(CROWD CHEERING)

ALEXANDER: You know, the
Obamas are remarkably focused.

Eyes on the prize.

The prize, by the way,
is not the presidency.

The prize is the work.

(INDISTINCT CHATTER)

ALEXANDER: It's not
that it does not hurt

to be defamed and misnamed.

But I think that what
served both of them well,

was understanding that
they were in service

to a larger ideal,

and that what leadership
meant in that moment

was to just keep on the path.

- (INDISTINCT CHATTER)
- Thank you, guys.

IFILL: Racism is always
a very convenient tool

to use by those who want power.

They don't have to, themselves,
be motivated by race.

They can just be motivated
by the desire to hold on to,

attain, or broaden
their base of power.

And because racism
is so deeply baked

into the American psyche,

you only have to
tap into the vein.

- (INDISTINCT CHATTER)
- Thank you. Thank you, guys.

- ATTENDEE: Senator, good luck.
- Thank you so much.

Thank you. Thank you, guys.

REPORTER: A political
firestorm erupted today

over a magazine cover cartoon
of Barack Obama and his wife.

The New Yorker cover
depicts the couple

doing a fist bump
in the Oval Office.

He's in Muslim clothing,
she's in camouflage.

REPORTER 2: The cover also
shows an American flag

burning in the fireplace

and a picture of Osama Bin
Laden hangs on the wall.

♪ (SOFT MUSIC PLAYING) ♪

REMNICK: Barry Blitt
drew a cover that meant

to take every crazy stereotype
about Michelle and Barack Obama,

and put them into one image.

And you were seeing these images

and this rhetoric on Fox News
for example, all the time.

We didn't draw it
out of nowhere.

And, um, the reaction was not,

let's just say,
uniformly fantastic.

WOLF BLITZER: I can't tell you
how many people have said to me,

David, you know, if... if
they wouldn't have known

this was on the cover of
The New Yorker magazine,

they would have just
seen this cartoon

and they would have...
And been asked,

"Which magazine has
this on the cover?"

Almost every one
of us would've said

some neo-Nazi magazine,
the Ku Klux Klan...

Oh, come on, Wolf, come
on, come on, come on.

The fact is... Wait a minute,
the fact of the matter

is that it is on The New
Yorker and context means a lot.

REPORTER: The New Yorker
cover now appears on websites

of Obama's opponents,
many conservatives.

The New Yorker's
perceptive cover,

says RightWingNews dot com.

Obama had no response, but
his campaign said, quote...

(READS QUOTE)

REMNICK: We had published,
I don't know how many covers

making fun of George Bush,
politically, in myriad ways.

The reason for the
reaction to this cover

was that a mainly
liberal audience said,

"Of course, I understand this.

- "But those people out there..."
- (INDISTINCT CHATTER)

"Those rubes in the
big square states

who can't understand anything
are going to see this

as not something ironic
or a comment on something,

but as reality."

And I found that wrong
and condescending.

REPORTER: A new Newsweek poll
suggests 12 percent of voters

still think Obama is
a practicing Muslim,

26 percent think he
was raised Muslim,

and 39 percent think he
attended an Islamic school.

REPORTER 2: So, is the magazine
pointing out anti-Obama myths

or perpetuating them?

(BUS ENGINE REVVING)

COBB: One sub current
of the 2008 campaign

had been this really
irrational fear

that Barack Obama represented

some sort of revenge-fantasy
for Black people.

What his identity did was
allow people to run wild

with the most
feverish conjurings

of their conspiratorial minds.

So there is a
really great moment

that expresses Obama's

kind of strategic relationship
to Black identity,

and that was in the
Democratic National Convention

in Denver in 2008.

(CROWD CHEERING)

JOHN KERRY: No one can question
Barack Obama's patriotism.

Like all of us, he was taught
what it means to be an American

by his family. His
grandmother who worked

on a bomber assembly
line in World War II,

his grandfather who
marched in Patton's Army,

and his great uncle who
enlisted in the army

right out of high school
at the height of the war.

There's a point where
John Kerry mentions

that Barack Obama's uncle,

who is a veteran
of World War II,

was present in the
convention hall.

And he requests that
his uncle stand up

and be acknowledged
by the crowd.

- (CROWD CHEERING)
- KERRY: Please join me

in saluting this American
hero, Charlie Payne.

(CROWD APPLAUDS)

COBB: This elderly
white man stands up,

you know, this man who
would not be out of place

at any VFW hall in the country.

And I happen to be with a
group of Black delegates

who all howled with laughter

because you understood
exactly what he was doing.

And the guy next to me said,
"If I had a white uncle,

I'd take him to every
job interview I went to."

(CROWD CHEERING)

COBB: That was a kind
of brilliant inversion

of the one-drop rule in
America. Because as they say,

"If you are Black at
all, you are all Black."

Barack Obama turned
that inside out.

"If you don't
understand who I am,

if you're trying to
figure out who I am,

well, here's my uncle.

There's a good chance
that you have an uncle

"who is just like this guy."

KERRY: Charlie, your
nephew, Barack Obama,

will end this politics of
distortion and division.

That flag that hangs
from the rafters

and that you have waved
here this evening,

that flag doesn't
belong to any ideology,

it doesn't belong to
any political party.

It is an enduring
symbol of our nation,

and it belongs to all
the American people.

(CROWD CHEERING)

CROWD: John McCain! John
McCain! John McCain!

John McCain! John McCain!

John McCain! John McCain!

My friends, I've spent
the last few months

looking... Looking
for a running mate

who can best help me
shake up Washington

and make it start working again

for the people that
are counting on us.

(CROWD CHEERING)

REPORTER: We're going to turn
to the political preoccupation

of the nation.

Who will McCain pick
for Vice President?

REPORTER 2: Of course, we
know Barack Obama's selection

of a running mate was
a tightly held secret.

OBAMA: For months, I've
searched for a leader

to finish this
journey alongside me.

I've found that leader.

(CROWD CHEERING)

A man with a
distinguished record.

A man with fundamental decency.

- And that man is Joe Biden.
- (CROWD CHEERING)

JOHN MCCAIN: My friends
and fellow Americans,

I am very pleased
and very privileged

to introduce to you

the next Vice President
of the United States.

(CROWD CHEERING)

Governor Sarah Palin of
the great state of Alaska.

(CROWD CHEERING)

REPORTER: If John
McCain had hoped

to use his announcement
of a running mate

to steal the spotlight
from the Democrats

the day after their
convention ended,

he succeeded.

The question of the
day was Sarah who?

Who is Sarah Palin?

SARAH PALIN: I'm a
hockey mom from Alaska.

I'm not one of those
movers and shakers

within the Republican party

that I think, conventionally,
you would think,

would be tapped.

REPORTER 2: Palin has been
governor less than two years,

but is already the state's
most popular politician.

She is the anti-Washington
Republican conservative.

- Pro-gun, anti-abortion...
- (GUNSHOTS)

With a political record
as far outside the beltway

- as anyone can get.
- (CROWD CHEERING)

PALIN: Before I became governor
of the great state of Alaska.

- (CROWD CHEERING)
- I was mayor of my hometown.

I guess a small-town mayor

is sort of like a
community organizer,

except that you have
actual responsibilities.

(CROWD CHEERING)

Whatever the long-term
impact of Sarah Palin

on McCain's chances,

uh, she gave him a
short-term adrenaline shot,

and his campaign began
to attract big crowds.

(INDISTINCT CHATTER)

AXELROD: But the tone
and tenor of the crowds

turned uglier and uglier.

I was reading today a copy
of The New York Times.

(CROWD BOOING)

And I was really
interested to read in there

about Barack Obama's
friends from Chicago.

(CROWD BOOING)

Turns out one of his
earliest supporters

is a man who, according
to The New York Times,

was a domestic terrorist
and part of a group...

(CROWD BOOING)

Part of a group that, quote,

"launched a campaign of bombings

that would target the
Pentagon and the US Capitol."

(CROWD BOOING)

- Man.
- (INDISTINCT CHATTER)

REPORTER 3: The Palin
factor. The campaign

- that's turned down and dirty.
- (CROWD APPLAUDING)

REPORTER 3: Down in the
polls, the McCain campaign

has found a new attack dog.

OBAMA: Senator McCain and
his operatives are gambling

that they can distract
you with smears

rather than talk to
you about substance.

I am just so fearful
that this is not a man

who sees America the way
that you and I see America.

They'd rather tear
our campaign down

- than lift this country up.
- (INDISTINCT CHATTER)

That's what you do when
you're out of touch,

out of ideas, and
running out of time.

(CROWD CHEERING)

PALIN: I'm afraid this is
someone who sees America

as imperfect enough to work
with a former domestic terrorist

who had targeted
his own country.

(INDISTINCT CHATTER)

REMNICK: Even as
just a journalist,

the cr... crazy emails about
how really I got it all wrong,

and that Barack Obama
was created by terrorists

and bomb-throwing radicals.

Unfortunately, that crap
entered the mainstream.

In the... In the
name of Sarah Palin.

He's palling around
with terrorists.

This language was...
And feeling was...

It's not just some American
marginalia over here.

People saw it as
sufficient enough

that it needed whipping up.

(CROWD CHEERING)

I'm afraid if he wins,
the Black will take over.

He seems like a sheep,

or a wolf in sheep's clothing,
to be honest with you.

He must support terrorists.

You know, if... if
it walks like a duck

and quacks like a duck,
it must be a duck.

And that, to me, is Obama.

You have to have some
degree of optimism

and some degree of
faith in white America

because the majority
of the population

can already be president.
I don't know how you become

president without that, right?

Or at least at that point,

I don't know how you become
president without that.

Uh, but I think also that
that faith might prevent you

- from seeing certain things.
- (CROWD CHEERING)

TA-NEHISI COATES: The belief in
the goodness of white America

did not allow you
to see... (CHUCKLES)

That this could
actually get really bad.

- (CROWD APPLAUDING)
- Yes, ma'am.

(INDISTINCT CHATTER)

Ma'am, if you're going
to walk up like that

I'm not going to
give you the mic.

I'm not going to
give you the mic.

ATTENDEE: Okay, I gotta
ask you a question.

I do not, uh, believe
in I can't trust Obama.

I... I have read about him,

and he's not... he's
not... He's a, uh,

- he's an Arab. He is not.
- (CROWD CHUCKLES)

- No, ma'am. No, ma'am.
- ATTENDEE: No?

No, ma'am. No, ma'am. No, ma'am.

He's a... He's a
decent, family man,

citizen that I just happen
to have disagreements with

on... on fundamental issues,

and that's what this
campaign is all about.

- He's not. Thank you. Thank you.
- (CROWD APPLAUDING)

- Yes.
- ♪ (SOMBER MUSIC PLAYING) ♪

We all thought that was
McCain's finest moment

in the whole, uh, campaign.

- Now, I want to acknowledge...
- (INDISTINCT CHATTER)

Uh, that Senator McCain,
yesterday, tried to tone down

the rhetoric in some
of his town halls.

(CROWD SHOUTING)

AXELROD: I don't think
Obama was surprised

by some of the
acrimony out there.

(INDISTINCT CHATTER)

This is little Hussein.

AXELROD: He understood
that there were these

- darker impulses out there.
- (INDISTINCT CHATTER)

But at the same time, he
was traveling the country,

and there were as many as
a hundred thousand people

showing up at his rallies.

That was a tonic in a way
for some of the ugliness

that we saw on the other side.

(CROWD CHEERING)

OBAMA: We have had a...
a remarkable campaign,

and, uh, you know, when
we started 21 months ago,

I... I didn't know
how it would turn out.

And no matter what
happens tomorrow,

I'm going to feel good
about how it's turned out

because all of you have created

- this incredible campaign.
- (CROWD CHEERING)

Uh, some of you heard
that my grandmother, uh,

who helped raise
me, passed away,

uh, early this morning.

(INDISTINCT CHATTER) and I...

- Look, she... she has gone home.
- CROWD: Yeah!

And she died
peacefully in her sleep

with my sister at her side.

And so, there's great
joy as well as tears.

(INDISTINCT CHATTER) - I'm not
gonna talk about it too long,

because it's hard a
little to talk about.

- (INDISTINCT CHATTER)
- Uh...

She was somebody who
was a very humble person

and a very plain-spoken person.

She was one of
those quiet heroes

that we have all
across America...

- ATTENDEE: Just like you!
- Who...

They're not famous.

Uh, their names aren't
in the newspapers,

But each and every
day they work hard.

They look after their families.

They sacrifice
for their children

and their grandchildren.

They aren't seeking
the limelight.

All they try to do is
just do the right thing.

And the satisfaction
that they get

is seeing that their children,

and maybe their grandchildren
or their great grandchildren,

uh, live a better life
than... Than they did.

And that's what America's about.

That's what we're fighting for.

And, North Carolina

in just one more day,

- we have the opportunity...
- (CROWD CHEERING)

To honor all those quiet heroes

all across America and
all across North Carolina.

We can bring change to America

to make sure that their work
and their sacrifice is honored.

That's what we're fighting for!

♪ (INTENSE MUSIC PLAYING) ♪

(INDISTINCT CHATTER)

REPORTER: They opened the
floodgates this morning

at voting places
across the country.

REPORTER 2: The
lines began forming,

even before the sun came up.

REPORTER 3: And in many cases,

lines as far as
the eye could see.

REPORTER 2: Even
with the long lines,

both campaigns were
still working feverishly

to add to them.

Anybody else you can get
to come out and help us,

- we'd really appreciate it.
- (CROWD APPLAUDING)

REPORTER 4: In Indianapolis,
Obama worked the phones

in a last minute "get
out the vote" effort.

Hi, Pam?

This is Barack
Obama, how are you?

It wasn't unexpected
at that point

that he was going to be elected,
if you looked at the polling.

(INDISTINCT CHATTER)

KEN MACK: But, I was
one of the people

who firmly believed that, "I'll
believe it when I see it."

Of course in politics, it
ain't over until people vote.

CHARLAMAGNE THA GOD: I
was one of those people

who that was my first
time ever voting, period.

Like, ever.

Like, Barack Obama
was the first person

that energized me
and made me say,

"Yo, I want to go
out here and vote."

(INDISTINCT CHATTER)

I decided to call a
watch-night service

like we do on New Year's Eve,

down at Martin Luther
King's church in Atlanta.

(CONGREGATION APPLAUDING)

LEWIS: This election is
not the promised land,

but I tell you, it is
a major down payment

- on the promised land.
- (CONGREGATION CHEERING)

And when it flashed
across that screen,

-Obama won Ohio,
-(CONGREGATION CHEERING)

I was in my fifties,

and it was the first
time in my life

that I could
honestly tell a kid,

- you could be president.
- (CONGREGATION CHEERING)

- (CROWD CHEERING)
- WOLF: We're only a few seconds

away from the top of the hour

when these states
will be closing

and there are some big
ones. And presumably,

we'll be able to see
what's going on and make,

perhaps, a major
projection at that point.

This is a moment that a lot of
people have been waiting for.

This is a moment
that, potentially,

could be rather historic...

CROWD: Five, four, three,
two, one! (CHEERING)

And CNN can now project
that Barack Obama,

47 years old, will become
the President-elect

of the United States.

We project he now has
enough electoral votes.

- More than...
- LEWIS: I never thought

that I would live
to see a Black man

or a Black woman as president
of the United States of America.

My own mother, my own
father, my grandparents

didn't become registered voters

until after the Voting
Rights Act was passed

and signed into law
on August 6th, 1965.

(CROWD CHEERING)

LEWIS: And to live to see

Barack Obama become president
of the United States of America

was almost too much.

(CROWD CHEERING)

LEWIS: I jumped up so high

I didn't think my feet were
going to touch the floor,

and I started crying.

(CROWD CHEERING)

It was the moment

the movement and the
mission all came together.

Man, to my mind
came the martyrs.

(INDISTINCT CLAMOR)

JESSE JACKSON: Our warriors
fight for civil rights

in America, we're soldiers too.

Fighting for freedom in America
is risky, it's very dangerous.

(GUNSHOT FIRES)

JESSE: And those who made
it possible were not there.

(CROWD CHEERING)

I wish Dr. King, Medgar Evers,

for a moment just...

God gave them 15 seconds to
look at... look at their work.

This is their work, he's
the result of our work.

- ANNOUNCER: Ladies and gentlemen...
- (CROWD CHEERING)

The next First Family of the
United States of America.

- When he won, we all won.
- (CROWD CHEERING)

I went to Grant Park.
If you're in Grant Park,

it seemed like America
had finally done

- something significant.
- (CROWD CHEERING)

MACK: It was an affirmation

of what America
could be at its best.

America's not
always at its best.

But, I... I felt, that
night, election night,

as a Black man in America,

that this is what
America could be.

(CROWD CHEERING)

OBAMA: 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.

(CROWD CHEERING)

OBAMA: It's been a
long time coming,

but tonight, because of
what we did on this day,

in this election, at
this defining moment,

- change has come to America.
- (CROWD CHEERING)

OBAMA: That's the
true genius of America

that America can change.

Our union can be perfected.

This election had many
firsts and many stories

that will be told
for generations,

but one that's on
my mind tonight's

about a woman who cast
her ballot in Atlanta.

She is a lot like the
millions of others

who stood in line to
make their voice heard

in this election,
except for one thing,

Anne Nixon Cooper
is 106 years old.

She was born just a
generation past slavery,

when someone like her
couldn't vote for two reasons.

Because she was a woman

and because of the
color of her skin.

And this year, in this election,

she touched her finger to
a screen and cast her vote

because after 106
years in America,

through the best of times
and the darkest of hours,

she knows how
America can change.

- Yes, we can.
- CROWD: Yes, we can!

OBAMA: America, we
have come so far.

We have seen so much.

But there's so much more to do.

So, tonight, let
us ask ourselves...

If our children should live
to see the next century

if my daughters
should be so lucky

to live as long as
Anne Nixon Cooper,

what change will they see?

What progress will we have made?

This is our chance
to answer that call.

This is our moment.

This is our time to
reclaim the American dream

and reaffirm that
fundamental truth

that out of many, we are one.

That while we breathe, we hope.

And where we are met
with cynicism and doubt,

and those who tell
us that we can't,

we will respond with
that timeless creed

that sums up the
spirit of a people.

Yes, we can.

- CROWD: Yes, we can!
- Thank you, God bless you,

and may God bless the
United States of America.

- (CROWD CHEERING)
- ♪ (DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYING) ♪

(CAMERA SHUTTERS CLICKING)

- Oh wow!
- (CROWD CHUCKLES)

- Nice, guys. Thank you.
- (JOE BIDEN CHUCKLES)

Thank you very much,
everybody. Thank you very much.

This morning, we woke
up to more sobering news

about the state of our economy.

Now, the United States
has only one government

and one president at a time.

And until January
20th of next year,

that government is the
current administration.

I've spoken to President Bush.

I appreciate his commitment

to ensuring that his
economic policy team

keeps us fully informed
as developments unfold.

And I'm also thankful

for his invitation
to The White House.

- (AIRPLANE ENGINE REVVING)
- (INDISTINCT CHATTER)

REPORTER: For almost
two years now,

Barack Obama has been
in campaign mode.

And suddenly overnight,
everything has changed.

BARBARA WALTERS: Barack
Obama will replace

one of the most unpopular
presidents in modern history.

He will inherit two wars

- and an economic crisis not seen...
- (INDISTINCT CHATTER)

Since The Great Depression.

REPORTER 3: His first
legislative goal

will be to get Congress to pass
an economic stimulus package

that he hopes will create jobs
and put money in the pockets

- of ordinary citizens.
- (INDISTINCT CHATTER)

KROFT: Have there been
moments when you've said,

- "What did I get myself into?"
- (CHUCKLES)

You know, surprisingly enough,
I feel, uh, right now that...

I'm-I'm doing what
I should be doing.

(CROWD CHEERING)

OBAMA: I, Barack Hussein
Obama, do solemnly swear.

JOHN ROBERTS: That I
will execute the office

of President to the
United States faithfully.

LEWIS: The day when
he was inaugurated,

I walked up to him and
asked him to sign something.

He wrote on this piece of paper,

"It's all because of you, John."

I said, Well, thank
you Mr. President.

He gave me a hug, I hugged him.

- And we both teared up.
- (CROWD CHEERING)

WEST: Now, you've got a
Black man in that White House

built primarily by Black slaves.

That's moment that,
uh, I think all of us

of all colors would
feel very, very deeply.

I'll never forget that
as long as I live.

(CROWD CHEERING)

COATES: Rappers and
basketball players.

That was the range in
which Black men existed

in the pop culture
for the most part.

That was it.

And so it was really
something beautiful

about, you know,
seeing something else.

This was Black Camelot.

How much more American
could we get than this?

(CROWD CHEERING)

ALVIN LOVE: After the parade,
he came back to The White House

for a meeting with
several of us,

uh, who had been friends
with him across the years.

And as he got ready to go,
he grabbed me and he said,

"Rev, I'm in it now."

He said, "Pray for me."

♪ (THEME MUSIC PLAYING) ♪

I wanted to get everyone
together, on the first day,

to welcome you to
the White House.

SPEAKER: When he was
elected, a lot of Americans

had never had a Black
boss, and here he was,

the highest authority
figure in the land.

It was naive for us to think
there wouldn't be a backlash.

SPEAKER 2: There's a huge
number of people out there

talking about taking
their country back.

- (CROWD COMMOTION) - BARACK OBAMA:
If we can recognize ourselves

in folks who, on the surface

seem different, we can
move forward together.

SPEAKER 3: Time-and-time
again, he's trying to find

some sort of middle ground.
There is no middle ground.

OBAMA: The strongest democracies
endure when people find a way

to set aside
smaller differences,

in service of a greater purpose.
I have full faith

and confidence that we can do it.

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