This video has been making the rounds since some of us got the link in our in-boxes. At his Chicago campaign hq the day after the election, the President is talking about the hope he has for the future based on the young people who he met working on his campaign. It's not the first time he's teared up recently when talking about his supporters--he did so in his Des Moines speech (photo below) but it was prompted basically by the same thing--he was talking then as this time about the people who worked in his campaigns. The full circle of his campaigns turns out to be the circle in the center of the pond, from which the ripples flow out--the "ripples of hope" Robert Kennedy talked about, and President Obama quotes in the video above.
"Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope, and those ripples build a current which can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance."
Senator Robert F. Kennedy, June 6 1966 (South Africa address)
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