Obama Speaks in Billings, MT

A transcription of Barack Obama’s speech from Billings, Montana as broadcast by Fox News: {Snarky remarks all mine.} Intros and thank yous not transcribed. There were those who said, ‘why are you running so soon? You can afford to wait.’ And I had to explain, I’m not running because of some long-held ambition or because I think it’s something I owed to me, I’m running because of what Dr. King called ‘the fierce urgency of now’ - the fierce urgency of now. And what he meant by that was there