[ WP ] After a 5-day war , Obama relinquishes power to Grogdox , King of the Mole-People . This is his concession speech .

`` My fellow Americans... 
 
 `` Many is the time my predecessors have had to greet the nation with those immortal words. 
 
 `` Often, they heralded hope; victory; joy and reconciliation. Some times, they heralded warning, fear, reassurance and and darkness. 
 
 `` It is my greatest regret that I must come before you to utter words that have never been uttered before; to express a sentiment that all the preceding speeches made seem a hazy impossibility; relegated to the world of the past, not our future. I come before you not as the victor, but as the vanquished. 
 
 `` My fellow Americans... I tell you now, we have lost. 
 
 `` It will come as no surprise when I tell you that our remaining major cities are surrounded by the arms and armies of the tyrant Grogdox. For some, it will still be too terrifying a burden to carry, and to terrifying a truth to acknowledge, that within but five days, our horrific enemy has been able to swallow up so much of our union; with their tremor weapons, take away so many of our wives; our husbands; our fathers and mothers; sons; daughters; sisters and brothers. They have torn from the world our friends; our co-workers; our extended families; fierce rivals who, though we may have been split by our ideologies, were united in the knowledge that we were, all of us, for better or worse, living Americans. 
 
 `` I know too that it will come as no surprise for you to hear that, within just days, they have annihalated our greatest military installations. They have shaken our airbases to dust; ripped apart the barracks; smashed the fleets in port and threatened to do so at sea. I know you will all join me in wishing thanks, however plaintive or heartbroken, to those servicemen and women who paid the supreme sacrifice so that we might have, however small, a tomorrow. 
 
 `` Eleven hours ago, Grogdox unveiled to me the workings of a device he called the Ruiner. Its inner workings are aligned with the tectonic plates beneath our feet; its engines hold back tides of magma; the mere movement of its cogs will shake the earth. Given what we have seen of their capabilities in the past five days, it would be nothing short of suicidal foolishness to doubt that they can, and will, use it. 
 
 `` Grogdox has promised to me that unless I formally annull the constitution; permanently suspend the Houses of our legislature and dissolve the executive branch before finally ceding power to him as Eternal God King for Life, he will have no choice but to activate the Ruiner. 
 
 `` I know you will have all wept over the vast and unfathomable sinkholes that were once Dallas; Memphis; Detroit; Los Angeles; Salt Lake City; Boston and New Orleans. 
 
 `` But Grogdox has promised that unless these United States cease to be a nation; cease their unquestioned Manifest Destiny as a light of hope and liberty for all throughout the world, then he will not merely end us as a nation, but as a landmass. 
 
 `` Grogdox has assured me that unless his demands are met, the New York skyline; the Grand Canyon; Shenandoah Valley; Golden Gate Bridge; the Rocky Mountains; Gettysburg; the Everglades; the Mississippi; the countless other quaint hamlets, inspiring landmarks and mighty cities which we so often for granted will no longer be bound beneath the beautiful, spacious skies, but instead made, eternally and tragically, brothers and sisters beneath the rolling, shining, sea. 
 
 `` Our allies, whom we have so often joined with in war, can not help us. Grogdox's malice holds them to ransom, and they have been threatened with brutal retalliation if they dare violate Mole Kingdom earth, air or seaspace. 
 
 `` It is crueller, not more joyful, to know that this was the nation which helped the world stand strong against Hitler; which won the Cold War; which led nation after nation to freedom - it is no balm to know that this nation, with its proud history, must now be destroyed at the hands of conquerors and tyrants. 
 
 `` In just one hour, I shall be forced to sign a document that admits our defeat. To save us from becoming nothing more than mere lamented footnote; to ensure that the Atlantic and the Pacific do not come, crashing, in to a single ocean, stretching from the shores of Western Africa right round to Japan and Australia, I must be the President who breaks his oath of office; must dissolve the nation to save its peoples. I must be the man who destroys our dreams, so that we might face the night. 
 
 `` My fellow Americans... 
 
 `` In our hour of apocalypse; as we come now to Armageddon, and tread towards the annihilation of our sovreignty, I can say only this; can ask only one thing; can make but a single, desperate appeal to hope... 
 
 `` Superman, we need you. 
 
 `` May God bless you. And may God bless the United States of America.''
