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President Clinton Speech- I Have Sinned Sep 11th, 1998

__Thank__ you very much, ladies and gentlemen. Welcome to the White House and to this day to which Hillary and the vice president and I look forward so much every year.

This is always an important day for our country, for the reasons that the vice president said. It is an unusual and, I think, unusually important day today. I may not be quite as easy with my words today as I have been in years past, a nd I was up rather late last night thinking about and praying about what I ought to say today . And rather unusual for me, I actually tried to write it down. So if you will forgive me, I will do my best to say what it is I want to say to you - and I may have to take my glasses out to read my own writing.

First, I want to say to all of you that, as you might imagine, I have been on quite a journey these last few weeks to get to the end of this, to the rock bottom truth  of where I am and where we all are.

I __agree__ with those who have said that in my first statement after I testified I was not contrite enough. I don't think there is a fancy way to say that I have sinned. It is important to me that everybody who has been hurt know that the sorrow I feel is genuine: first and most important, my family; also my friends, my staff, my Cabinet, Monica Lewinsky and her family, and the American people. I have asked all for their forgiveness.

But I believe that to be forgiven, more than sorrow is required - at least two more things. First, genuine repentance - a determination to change and to __repair__ breaches of my own making. <span style="background-color: #00ffff; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">I have repented <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">. Second, what my bible calls a broken spirit; an understanding that I must have God's help to be the person that I want to be; a <span style="background-color: #00ffff; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">willingness to give the very forgiveness <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> I seek; a <span style="background-color: #00ffff; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">renunciation of the pride and the anger <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">which cloud judgment, lead people to excuse and compare and to blame and complain.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Now, what does all this mean for me and for us? First, I will instruct my lawyers to mount a vigorous defense, using all available appropriate arguments. But legal language must not obscure the fact that I have done wrong. Second, I will c <span style="background-color: #00ffff; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">ontinue on the path of <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> repentance, seeking pastoral support a <span style="background-color: #00ffff; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">nd that of other caring people <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">so that they can hold me accountable for my own commitment.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Third, I will intensify my efforts to lead our country and the world toward peace and freedom, prosperity and harmony, in the hope that with a broken spirit and a still strong heart I can be used for greater good, for we have many blessings and many challenges and so much __work__ to do.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">In his speech, I Have Sinned, President Clinton had made unnecessary assertions that are superfluous in getting across his main purpose. The operators, or false limbs presented in his speech could be replace by __simple__ words which would serve the same function in delivering his ideas. The false limbs add excessive information or description to his sentences in which eventually led the audiences away from the main point. In his opening paragraph, President Clinton tried to inform the audience that he had spent much time thinking about his sins; however, Clinton added an additional phrase after he had declared that he has been spending years anticipating what he going to say. As he said, “I was up rather late last night thinking about and praying about what I ought to say today.” Clinton could just simple say I’ve spend much time on the speech to make his point clear without wasting his saliva. The excessive descriptive or informational phrases or sentences should be shortened or cut out of his speech to make his speech more precise in supporting his overall main ideas. The false limbs would only distract the audience and bored them with excessive language.

<span style="background-color: #ff00ff; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline;">__Dying Metaphors: Faith__ <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">John F. Kennedy <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">“Let them Come to Berlin”

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">There are many people in the world who really don't understand, or say they don't, what is the great issue between the free world and the Communist world. <span style="background-color: #ff00ff; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> Let them come to Berlin <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">. There are some who say that communism is the <span style="background-color: #ff00ff; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">wave of the future <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">. Let them come to Berlin. And there are some who say in Europe and elsewhere we can work with the Communists. Let them come to Berlin. And there are even a few who say that it is true that communism is an evil system, but it permits us to make economic progress. Lass' sie nach Berlin kommen. Let them come to Berlin.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Freedom has many difficulties and democracy is not perfect, but we have never had to put a wall up to keep our people in, <span style="background-color: #ff00ff; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> to prevent them from leaving us <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">. I want to say, on behalf of my countrymen, who live many miles away on the other side of the Atlantic, who are far distant from you, that they take the <span style="background-color: #ff00ff; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">greatest pride that they have been able to share with you <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">, even from a distance, the story of the last 18 years. I know of <span style="background-color: #ff00ff; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">no town, no city <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">, that has been besieged for 18 years that still lives with the vitality and the force, and the hope and the determination of the city of West Berlin. While the wall is the most obvious and vivid <span style="background-color: #ff00ff; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">demonstration of the failures <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> of the Communist system, for all the world to see, we take no satisfaction in it, for it is, as your Mayor has said, an offense not only against history but an <span style="background-color: #ff00ff; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">offense against humanity <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">, separating families, dividing husbands and wives and brothers and sisters, and dividing a people <span style="background-color: #ff00ff; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">who wish to be joined together.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">What is true of this city is true of Germany--real, lasting peace in Europe can never be assured as long as one German out of four is denied the elementary right of free men, and that is to <span style="background-color: #ff00ff; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> make a free choice. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> In 18 years of peace and good faith, this generation of Germans has earned the right to be free, including the right to unite their families and their nation in lasting peace, with good will to all people. <span style="background-color: #ff00ff; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">You live in a defended island of freedom <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">, but your life is part of the main. So let me ask you as I close, to lift your eyes beyond the <span style="background-color: #ff00ff; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">dangers of today, to the hopes of tomorrow <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">, beyond the freedom merely of this city of Berlin, or your country of Germany, to the advance of freedom everywhere, <span style="background-color: #ff00ff; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> beyond the wall <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">to the day of peace with justice, beyond yourselves and ourselves to all mankind.

<span style="background-color: #ff00ff; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Freedom is indivisible <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">, and when one man is enslaved, <span style="background-color: #ff00ff; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">all are not free. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> When all are free, then we can look forward to that day when this city will be joined as one and this country and this great Continent of Europe in a <span style="background-color: #ff00ff; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> peaceful and hopeful globe <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">. <span style="background-color: #ff00ff; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">When that day finally comes <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">, as it will, the people of West Berlin can take sober satisfaction in the fact that they were in the front lines for almost two decades.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">In this speech, Let them Come to Berlin delivered by John F. Kennedy, the most frequently used offense was the dying metaphor. When hearing this speech, some may think that Kennedy was being genuine and addressing the issue, not scared the mention the “failures” and how many people to not completely understand the situation of Berlin. However, the numerous dying metaphors makes Kennedy sound very vague in the different topics. When Kennedy discusses the Germans “right to be free” and to make “free choices”, he does not go deeper and explain that rights that were taken away or how they are unable to live as free men in their current situation. Also, Kennedy claims that he hopes that the world will be “peaceful and hopeful” and waits for when that “day finally comes”. He hopes for a better future-just like majority of the people during that time- but he gives no ideas or advice that will ameliorate the future or improve the present condition. Because of the dying metaphors used, it seemed that Kennedy was stating the obvious and not informing his audience of anything they had not heard before. It is likely that his audience knows that not there are some men that “are not free” and that there are “hopes for tomorrow”. The dying metaphors that Kennedy makes it look like he is trying to sugarcoat the situation and hide information, which makes this not an informational speech, but a speech to entertain and add a bit of hope to the German people <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">.

<span style="background-color: #00ff00; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline;">__Meaningless Words: Maria__ <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">“Speech Before Congress” <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">President of France, Nicolas Sarkozy <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">November 7th, 2007

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Friendship, <span style="background-color: #00ff00; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">first and foremost, <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> means being true to one's friends. Since the United States first appeared on the world scene, the loyalty between the French and American people has never failed. And far from being weakened by the vicissitudes of History, it has never ceased growing stronger. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Friends may have differences; they may have disagreements; they may have disputes. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">But in times of difficulty, <span style="background-color: #00ff00; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">in times of hardship <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">, friends stand together, <span style="background-color: #00ff00; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> side by side <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">; they support each other; <span style="background-color: #00ff00; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">and help one another <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">In times of difficulty, <span style="background-color: #00ff00; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">in times of hardship <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">, America and France have always stood side by side, supported one another, <span style="background-color: #00ff00; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">helped one another, <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> fought for each other's freedom. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The United States and France remain true to the memory of their common history, true to the blood spilled by their children in common battles. But they are not true merely to the memory of what they accomplished together in the past. They remain true, <span style="background-color: #00ff00; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> first and foremost,to the same ideal, the same principles, the same values <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">that have always united them. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The deliberations of your Congress are conducted under the double gaze of Washington and Lafayette. Lafayette, whose 250th birthday we are celebrating this year and who was the first foreign dignitary, in 1824, to address a joint session of Congress. What was it that brought these two men—so far apart in age and background—together, if not their faith in common values, the heritage of the Enlightenment, the same love for freedom and justice? <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Upon first meeting Washington, Lafayette told him: "I have come here to learn, not to teach." It was this new <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline;">[|__spirit__] <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> and youth of the Old World seeking out the wisdom of the New World that opened a new era for all of humanity. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">From the very beginning, the American dream meant putting into practice the dreams of the Old World. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">From the very beginning, the American dream meant proving to all mankind that freedom, justice, human rights and democracy were no utopia but were rather the most realistic policy there is and the most likely to <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="wiki_link_ext">__improve__ <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> the fate of each <span style="background-color: #00ff00; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">and every <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">person. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">America did not tell the <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="wiki_link_ext">__millions__ <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> of men and women who came from every country in the world and who—with their hands, their intelligence and their heart—built the greatest nation in the world: "Come, and everything will be given to you." She said: "Come, and the only limits to what you'll be able to achieve will be your own courage and your own talent."

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> America embodies this extraordinary ability to grant <span style="background-color: #00ff00; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">each and <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">every person a second chance. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Here, both the humblest and most illustrious citizens alike know that nothing is owed to them and that everything has to be earned. That's what constitutes the moral value of America. America did not teach men the idea of freedom; she taught them how to practice it. And she fought for this freedom whenever she felt it to be threatened somewhere in the world. It was by watching America grow that men and women understood that freedom was possible. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">What made America great was her ability to transform her own dream into hope for <span style="background-color: #00ff00; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">all <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> mankind.


 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The crime of meaningless words is present in Nicolas Sarkozy’s speech he gave in front of Congress on November 7th of 2007. Sarkozy used a variety of words to convey the same meaning a number of times. Wouldn’t it be more beneficial to say either “in times of difficulty”or “in times of hardship”as opposed to “But in times of difficulty, in times of hardship”? His speech is bogged down with his overzealous use of the thesaurus and at one point uses “ideal”, “principles”, and “values” in one sentence just to say that America and France share similar beliefs. This careless use of words makes the speech too repetitive and the words are deemed meaningless. There was no need for Sarkozy to say both “each” and “every” to before the word person, but he did anyway to make his speech “appealing”, thus weighing down the true meaning of his speech. **

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline;">__Sarah Palin’s Farewell Address__

<span style="background-color: #ff00ff; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Dying metaphors <span style="background-color: #00ff00; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Meaningless Words <span style="background-color: #00ffff; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">False Limb <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">What an absolutely beautiful day it is, and it is my honor to speak to all Alaskans, to our Alaskan family this last time as your governor. And it is always great to be in Fairbanks. The <span style="background-color: #00ff00; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">rugged rugged hardy <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">people that live up here and some of the most patriotic people <span style="background-color: #00ffff; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">whom you will ever know live here <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">, and one thing that you are known for is your steadfast support of our military community <span style="background-color: #00ff00; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">up here <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> and I thank you for that and <span style="background-color: #00ffff; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">thank you <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> United States military for protecting the greatest nation on Earth. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Together we stand.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">And getting up here I say it is the best road trip in America soaring through nature's finest show. Denali, <span style="background-color: #00ffff; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">the great one <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">, <span style="background-color: #ff00ff; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">soaring under the midnight sun <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">. And then the extremes. In the winter time it's the frozen road that is competing with the view of <span style="background-color: #00ff00; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">ice fogged frigid beauty, <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> the cold though, doesn't it split the Cheechakos from the Sourdoughs? And t <span style="background-color: #00ffff; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">hen in the summertime suchextreme summertime <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">about a hundred and fifty degrees hotter than just some months ago, <span style="background-color: #00ffff; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">than just some months from now <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">, with fireweed blooming along the frost heaves and <span style="background-color: #00ff00; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> merciless rivers <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> that are <span style="background-color: #00ff00; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">rushing and carving and reminding <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> us that here, <span style="background-color: #ff00ff; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Mother Nature wins <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">. It is <span style="background-color: #00ff00; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">as <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">throughout all Alaska that <span style="background-color: #00ff00; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">big wild good <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> life teeming along the <span style="background-color: #ff00ff; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">road that is north to the future <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">. That is what we get to see every day. Now what the rest of America gets to see along with us is in this last frontier there is <span style="background-color: #00ffff; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">hope and opportunity and there is country pride.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">And it is our men and women in uniform securing it, and we are facing <span style="background-color: #00ff00; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">tough challenges <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> in America <span style="background-color: #00ffff; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">with some seeming to just be Hell bent maybe <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> on tearing down our nation, <span style="background-color: #00ffff; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">perpetuating some pessimism, and suggesting American apologetics, <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> suggesting perhaps that <span style="background-color: #ff00ff; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">our best days were yesterdays <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">. But as other people have asked, "How can that pessimism be, when proof of our greatness, our pride today is that we produce the <span style="background-color: #00ff00; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">great proud <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> volunteers who sacrifice everything for country?" Now this week alone, Sean Parnell and I we're on the, um, on Ft. Rich the base there, t <span style="background-color: #00ffff; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">he army chapel, and we heard the last roll call <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">, <span style="background-color: #00ffff; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">and the sounding of Taps for three very brave, <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">very young Alaskan soldiers who just gave their all for all of us. Together we do stand with gratitude for our troops who protect <span style="background-color: #00ff00; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">all of <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> our <span style="background-color: #00ff00; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">cherished freedoms <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">, including our <span style="background-color: #00ffff; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">freedom of speech which, par for the course, I'm going to exercise.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline;">__Rewrite__

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">What an absolutely beautiful day it is, and it is my honor to speak to all Alaskans, to our Alaskan family this last time as your governor. And it is always great to be in Fairbanks. The rugged and patriotic people, and one thing that you are known for is your steadfast support of our military community and I thank you for that and for the United States military for protecting the greatest nation on Earth. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Together we stand.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Getting up here I say it is the best road trip in America soaring through nature's finest show. Denali was soaring. In the winter time it's freezing, but doesn't the cold split the Cheechakos from the Sourdoughs? And then in the summertime, about a hundred and fifty degrees hotter than just some months ago, fireweed blooming along the frost heaves and rivers, remind us that here, nature wins. It is throughout all Alaska that wild life teeming along the future. That is what we get to see every day. Now what the rest of America gets to see along with us is in this last frontier there is country pride.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">And it is our men and women in uniform securing it, and we are facing challenges in America with some determined to tear down our nation, suggesting perhaps that in the past. But as other people have asked, "How can that pessimism be, when proof of our greatness, our pride today is that we produce the volunteers who sacrifice everything for country?" Now this week alone, Sean Parnell and I we're on the Ft. Rich the base there, three very brave, very young Alaskan soldiers who just gave their all for all of us. Together we do stand with gratitude for our troops who protect our freedoms.