Sports Profile Featuring Kristen McLoughlin

[3:12]..." it possible for many of us to live the American story. -- Barack Obama understands that. He understands. Our needs to renew our commitment to the American story today. And that the gateway. Is through that first rate education. That's why Barack Obama wants to help our kids be ready to learn when they get to kindergarten by investing in early education. That's why he wants to fix and fund no child left behind. That's why he wants to better train and better reward -- performing teachers why he wants to emphasize more math and science preparation and why he wants to support colleagues ambitions for young people by helping them to pay for. Barack Obama understands just like you and me. That a well educated America will make things again. Because we'll be ready for emerging industries like clean energy and life sciences and a high tech. That produces good job as well as a cleaner environment. And in that new economy. In that -- kind of working people "...

[0:08]..." from Massachusetts. Glad to be with. Our youngest daughter half. Graduated from high school not long ago. Sitting at her graduation I couldn't help but reflect on the difference between. Her journey to that milestone in my own. I grew up in poverty on the Southside of Chicago. I went to overcrowded and sometimes violent public school. I shared a room Minnesota bunk beds but my mother and my sister. So we rotate from the top on to the "...

[1:12]..." delivered newspapers student in night school. By the time she got a high school he had already traveled on four continents. She shaken hands in the white house with the president of the United States. One "...

[0:06]..." But Barack running for president is nothing compared to that first game of basketball but my brother Craig. I can't tell you how much it means to "...

[7:02]..." I -- men and women. Gathered in searches and union hall in high school gym -- People who stood up and marched in risked everything they had refusing to settle determine. To mold our future into "...

[9:23]..." dream a little bigger and came a little -- People like Joe Biden. "...

[0:00]..." Recently I visited my home town hazel and Pennsylvania to attend my high school class reunion. I was driving down -- an avenue when expire at the house where I spent my childhood. Which first cut my I was a big for sale sign -- in front of the house. I anticipated. That the house would appear smaller than I remembered but it was even smaller. That I thought it would be what affected me the most was that house was in total disrepair. I -- it said were on the windows and viewed our old living room record envisioned my father reading the evening newspaper my mother darting socks and my Brothers and sister and I are doing our homework. A sad moment as both my parents are now gone. "...