8-27-08, 9:58 am

His speech didn't make prime time TV from the Democratic National Convention, but his story and the promise of how his story could be changed did.

Robin Golden is a UAW member who is losing his job as an inspector at Lear Corp., an auto supplier based in Michigan. Lear is shipping its operations overseas, taking advantage of free trade agreements and Bush administration subsidies to corporations who want to move elsewhere.

A resident of the Grand Rapids, Michigan area, Golden told an afternoon session of the Democratic convention Tuesday, Aug. 26th, that his health care expires in just a few weeks and that he has been diagnosed with diabetes.

'It's time for a change,' Golden told the convention. 'My wife and I work hard, clip coupons and make sacrifices. We need a president who represents the working-class family and not big oil.'

That's why Robin Golden is supporting Barack Obama. Golden's story is much like the nearly 500,000 other workers in America who have lost their jobs this year, or the 47 million who lack health care coverage, or the millions whose homes are threatened to be foreclosed on.

These are the people, Hillary Clinton told an enraptured, packed audience at the DNC in Denver, Colorado, that she has spent her career fighting for, and these are the reasons she is supporting Barack Obama.

In an eloquent and enthusiastically received speech that emphasized the unity of her party behind Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton said, 'none of us can afford to sit on the sidelines. This is a fight for the future, and it's a fight we must win together.'

Clinton rejected the idea of four more years of Bush under John McCain. 'I haven't spent the past 35 years in the trenches, advocating for children, campaigning for universal health care, helping parents balance work and family, and fighting for women's rights here at home and around the world,' she stated, 'to see another Republican in the White House squander our promise of a country that really fulfills the hopes of our people. No way, no how, no McCain.'

'Barack Obama is my candidate, and he must be our president,' she stated.

'I ran for president,' Clinton continued, 'to renew the promise of America, to rebuild the middle class and sustain the American dream, to provide opportunity to those who are willing to work hard for it and have that work rewarded, so they could save for college, a home, and retirement, afford gas and groceries, and have a little left over each month.

'To promote a clean energy economy that will create millions of green-collar jobs, to create a health care system that is universal, high-quality, and affordable, so that every single parent knows their children will be taken care of.

'We want to create a world-class education system and make college affordable again, to fight for an America that is defined by deep and meaningful equality, from civil rights to labor rights, from women's rights to gay rights, from ending discrimination to promoting unionization, to providing help for the most important job there is, caring for our families, and to help every child live up to his or her God-given potential, to make America once again a nation of immigrants and of laws, to restore fiscal sanity to Washington, and make our government an institution of the public good, not of private plunder.

'To restore America's standing in the world, to end the war in Iraq, bring our troops home with honor, care for our veterans, and give them the services they have earned.

'We will work for an America again that will join with our allies in confronting our shared challenges, from poverty and genocide to terrorism and global warming.

'Most of all, I ran to stand up for all those who have been invisible to their government for eight long years,' Clinton stated.

'Those are the reasons I ran for president, and those are the reasons I support Barack Obama for president,' she emphasized.

So while Golden's speech was likely only heard by a handful of convention delegates and political junkies glued to C-SPAN, the demand for change and for providing the solutions to the injustices that caused his plight resounded across the country as Clinton called for unity behind Barack Obama.

Watch Sen. Hillary Clinton's speech here: