[Music] tonight is a particular honor for me because let's face it my presence on this stage is pretty unlikely my father was a foreign student born and raised in a small village in Kenya what makes a great political speech is if you can somehow fold your story into this larger American story the next thing he says is about his mother's family his grandfather fought in World War II he used the GI bill they settled in Kansas so white people could say uh oh he's just like us my parents shared not only an improbable love they shared an Abiding Faith in the possibilities of this nation I stand here knowing that my story is part of the larger American story that I owe a debt to all of those who came before me and that in no other country on earth is my story even possible