Partial Transcript: Obama shines at Jefferson-Jackson Day Dinner

This was the best Obama speech since the 2004 convention.  I took down quotes as it happened.

Quotes from Barack Obama's speech:

• "There's always a black sheep in the family."  (In reference to his eighth cousin Dick Cheney.)
• "We are in a defining moment in our history.  Our nation is at war.  Our planet is in peril."
• "We were promised a uniter.  We got a President who could not even lead half the country that voted for him."
• "The only mission that was ever accomplished was to use fear and falsehood" to take America to war.
• We need "a new majority to" take on problems that "festered" under George W. Bush.
• "The same old Washington textbook campaigns just won't do in this election."  (In reference to Hillary Clinton.)
• "If we are serious about winning this election, Democrats, then we can't live in fear of losing."
• We need "a party that doesn't just offer change as a slogan -- but real" change.  "That is why I am running for the presidency of the United States of America."
• "I have done more than any other candidate in this race to take on the lobbyists, and I have won."
• "I won't raise the minimum wage every ten years.  I will raise it to keep pace, so American workers don't fall behind."
• "I am sick and tired of Democrats that the only way to look tough on Social Security is talking and voting like George Bush Republicans."
• When I am the nominee, "my opponent will not be able to say that I voted for the war in Iraq."
• "As President, I will end the war in Iraq.  We will have our troops home in 16 months.  I will close Guantanamo.  I will restore habeas corpus."
• I don't want to "re-fight the fights we had during the 90s."
• "If the Republicans come at me with the same fear-mongering and swiftboating they do, I will take them head-on."
• I am fighting for "what Dr. King called 'the fierce urgency of being now.'"

Look for a video later tonight.