美國伊利諾州參議員歐巴馬（Barack Obama）6月3日晚間在聚集了1萬7000位民眾的聖保羅市中心艾克賽爾能量中心（Xcel Energy Center）宣布贏得勝利，同時間民主黨總統候選人代表初選正式劃下句點。
在支持群眾的歡呼聲中，歐巴馬表示：「這就是美國，這是屬於我們的時刻，我們的時代，是我們改變過去許多政策的時機，是將新能量、新觀念投注在挑戰的契機，是為摯愛國家提供新方向的時候到了。」
在歐巴馬成為美國史上第一位黑人，被主要政黨提名為總統候選人的同時，他稱許競爭對手，參議員希拉蕊（Hillary Clinton）的成就。
他說道︰「當我們為這個國家贏來全方位醫療照護系統時，你們可以放心，她會在這個勝利裡舉足輕重。當我們進行能源政策轉型，並將兒童們脫貧時，這將會是因為她的居間協助而使之實現。」
歐巴馬指出︰「我們的黨及國家因為有她而變得更好，我也因為有幸與希拉蕊競爭，而成為一個更好的候選人。」
歐巴馬及希拉蕊在黨代表初選期間，有他們不同調的地方，但是在4日晚間他們雙方都表示美國人使用能源的方式，在不久的將來將需要改變。
歐巴馬表示︰「這改變是建立一種經濟形態，它的回饋將不僅只有財富，也將會製造工作機會以及創造新經濟型態的工作者。」他主張︰「投資正在衰退的基礎建設，轉變使用能源的方式，改善學校，重拾我們在科學及創新上的承諾。」
希拉蕊在她所代表的紐約州發表演說時，也認同競爭對手的實力，她隨後解釋「希拉蕊想要作的事」時也強調類似的議題。
她表示︰「我要一種能適用於所有家庭的經濟形態，這就是我一直以來亟力爭取的原因，因為在乾淨能源產業之中，可以創造數以百萬計的新工作機會以及重建基礎建設。這會使工作機會落實在我們所有的州內、都市與鄉村地區、近郊社區與小鎮。」
歐巴馬將他的矛頭轉向他下一個競選對手，也就是共和黨所提出的總統候選人亞歷桑納州參議員麥肯（John McCain），他反言相譏對手最近拜訪伊拉克不夠勤快。他指出，麥肯如果能在家鄉美國多造訪一些地方，就更能瞭解美國需要什麼樣的改變。
歐巴馬表示︰「或許他去賓州時遇上一個失業的青年人，他會知道那位青年因為沒有能力負擔汽油費，所以無法開車到處找新工作。他會因此了解我們無法再多花4年去承受，對那些壟斷者所提供石油的依賴。」
他指出︰「那個人需要我們通過一項能源政策，這項能源政策將與汽車製造商合作，提昇燃料標準，讓企業負擔他們所製造的污染，讓石油公司能在投資一個乾淨能源的未來中，獲得最高利潤。這個能源政策將創造數百萬的工作機會，這些工作將提供好的薪資，且不能委外進行，這就是我們需要的改變。」
The Democratic primary season officially ended Tuesday night as Senator Barack Obama declared victory before a jubilant crowd of some 17,000 at a rally at the Xcel Energy Center in downtown St. Paul.
"This is America, this is our moment. This is our time. Our time to turn the page on the policies of the past," the Illinois senator told cheering supporters. "Our time to bring new energy and new ideas to the challenges we face. Our time to offer a new direction for the country we love."
Obama acknowledged the accomplishments of his rival, Senator Hillary Clinton as he became the first black candidate in the nation's history to be the presidential nominee of a major political party.
"You can rest assured that when we finally win the battle for universal health care in this country, she will be central to that victory," he said. "When we transform our energy policy and lift our children out of poverty, it will be because she worked to help make it happen."
Obama said, "Our party and our country are better off because of her, and I am a better candidate for having had the honor to compete with Hillary Rodham Clinton."
Obama and Clinton have had their differences during this long primary campaign, but tonight they each said that the ways America uses energy will have to change in the near future.
"Change is building an economy that rewards not just wealth, but the work and workers who created it," said Obama, as he advocated "investing in our crumbling infrastructure, and transforming how we use energy, and improving our schools, and renewing our commitment to science and innovation."
Speaking in her home state of New York, Clinton acknowledged the strength of her opponent, and then she highlighted similar issues when explaining "what Hillary wants."
"I want an economy that works for all families," she said. "That's why I have been fighting to create millions of new jobs in clean energy and rebuilding our infrastructure, jobs to come to all of our states and urban and rural areas and suburban communities and small towns."
Turning his attention to his next opponent, Obama deflected the critique of Republican presumptive nominee Senator John McCain of Arizona that he has not been to Iraq recently enough.
Instead, Obama said, it is McCain who would better understand the kind of change Americans want if he visited more places at home in America.
"Maybe if he went to Pennsylvania and met the man who lost his job but can't even afford the gas to drive around and look for a new one, he'd understand that we can't afford four more years of our addiction to oil from dictators," Obama said.
"That man needs us to pass an energy policy that works with automakers to raise fuel standards, and makes corporations pay for their pollution, and oil companies invest their record profits in a clean energy future - an energy policy that will create millions of new jobs that pay well and can't be outsourced," he said. "That's the change we need."
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