President Obama's Thanksgiving message

Earlier this afternoon, President Obama sent supporters a special Thanksgiving message of thanks and gratitude:

Tomorrow, Thanksgiving Day, Americans across the country will sit down together, count our blessings, and give thanks for our families and our loved ones.

American families reflect the diversity of this great nation. No two are exactly alike, but there is a common thread they each share.

Our families are bound together through times of joy and times of grief. They shape us, support us, instill the values that guide us as individuals, and make possible all that we achieve.

So tomorrow, I'll be giving thanks for my family -- for all the wisdom, support, and love they have brought into my life.

But tomorrow is also a day to remember those who cannot sit down to break bread with those they love.

The soldier overseas holding down a lonely post and missing his kids. The sailor who left her home to serve a higher calling. The folks who must spend tomorrow apart from their families to work a second job, so they can keep food on the table or send a child to school.

We are grateful beyond words for the service and hard work of so many Americans who make our country great through their sacrifice. And this year, we know that far too many face a daily struggle that puts the comfort and security we all deserve painfully out of reach.

So when we gather tomorrow, let us also use the occasion to renew our commitment to building a more peaceful and prosperous future that every American family can enjoy.

It seems like a lifetime ago that a crowd met on a frigid February morning in Springfield, Illinois to set out on an improbable course to change our nation.

In the years since, Michelle and I have been blessed with the support and friendship of the millions of Americans who have come together to form this ongoing movement for change.

You have been there through victories and setbacks. You have given of yourselves beyond measure. You have enabled all that we have accomplished -- and you have had the courage to dream yet bigger dreams for what we can still achieve.

So in this season of thanks giving, I want to take a moment to express my gratitude to you, and my anticipation of the brighter future we are creating together.

With warmest wishes for a happy holiday season from my family to yours.

President Barack Obama

Comments (2) «

I would like to know if there will be a Christmas tree in the White House this year>

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cedwardsk on November 25, 2009 at 11:52 PM

Yes, there will be a Christmas tree, in the Blue Room. Came from the State of WV.

President Obama----Thank YOU for trying to fix this country, just please do not try and do it all at once. Americans are an impatient lot, and they want what is most important to them fixed first. But you have been chewing off too much to do.

I do not agree with the sending of more troops to Afghanistan. Pull out now. Tell the Afghani government to pull their own weight. Is a handful of AlQaeda there, worth one of our boy's lives?

Get out of Iraq, quickly! I have people I convinced to vote telling me you promised to get out of there, and we are still there. Start loading those troops on planes and getting them back here.

I feel very sorry for your load. Inheritance is not always a good thing !

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PamB on November 26, 2009 at 08:33 AM

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