Buster
Length: 01:00
Aired on: Thursday, October 9, 2008
Transcript:I'm Barack Obama and I approve this message.
One of my earliest memories.
Going with my grandfather to see some of the astronauts being brought back after a splashdown, sitting on his shoulders and waving a little American flag and my grandfather would say yunno Americans we can do anything when we put our minds to it.
His grandfather fought in Patton's army.
His grandmother worked on a bomber assembly line.
But it was his mother who would see in him a promise.
My mother she said to herself yunno, my son he's an American and he needs to understand what that means.
She'd wake me up at four thirty in the morning and we'd sit there and go through my lessons and I used to complain and grumble and she'd say well this is no picknick for me either Buster.
His life was shaped by the values he learned as a boy.
Hard work, honesty, self-reliance, respect for other people, kindness, faith.
That's the country I believe in.
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