Choices
Length: 01:01
Aired on: Monday, June 25, 2007
Transcript:I'm Barack Obama and I approve this message.
It is that fundamental belief: I am my brother's keeper, I am my sister's keeper, that makes this country work.
After college, Barack Obama signed on as a community organizer for local churches, working to lift an area torn apart by plant closings.
Those mills began to close. People lost their jobs, for starters. The neighborhoods were devastated.
The fact that Barack chose to try and effect social change, you know, how do you understand that motivation? The pay stinks, the hours are bad.
Three years later, Barack went to Harvard Law, but returned to the community to lead a voter-registration drive and defend civil rights.
It was inspiring, absolutely inspiring, to see someone as brilliant as Barack Obama, as successful, someone who could've written his ticket on Wall Street, take all of the talent and all of the learning and decide to devote it to the community and to making people's lives better.
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