This election is about hope

We need all of you to fight on.

We need all of you fired up.

We need all of you ready to go, because in just 10 days, in just 10 days, you have the chance to set the direction of this state and of this country not just for the next two years, but for the next five years, the next 10 years, the next 20 years.

And just like you did in 2008, you can defy the conventional wisdom, the conventional wisdom that says young people are apathetic, the conventional wisdom that says you can’t beat the cynicism in politics, that you can’t overcome the special interests, that all that matters is all the big money and the negative TV ads.

You have the chance to say, “Yes, we can.”
 
President Barack Obama said:
We need all of you to fight on.

We need all of you fired up.

We need all of you ready to go, because in just 10 days, in just 10 days, you have the chance to set the direction of this state and of this country not just for the next two years, but for the next five years, the next 10 years, the next 20 years.

And just like you did in 2008, you can defy the conventional wisdom, the conventional wisdom that says young people are apathetic, the conventional wisdom that says you can’t beat the cynicism in politics, that you can’t overcome the special interests, that all that matters is all the big money and the negative TV ads.

You have the chance to say, “Yes, we can.”
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Look, now, I don't want to fool anybody.

This is going to be a difficult election because we’ve been through an incredibly difficult time as a nation.

For most of the last decade, the middle class has been hurting.

Families saw their incomes fall, between 2001 and 2009 by about 5 percent.

That's not my statistics.

That's the Wall Street Journal talking.

Job growth was more sluggish during that period than any time since World War II.

Jobs were being shipped overseas.

Parents couldn’t afford to send their kids to college.

Families couldn’t afford to send somebody in their family to a doctor.

Americans were working two, three jobs just to try to make ends meet, and all this culminated in the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression.
 
Understand we lost 4 million jobs in the six months before I took office, 750,000 the month that I was sworn in, 600,000 the month after that, 600,000 the month after that.

We haven’t seen anything like this since the 1930s.

We lost 8 million jobs before any of my economic policies had a chance to be put into place.
 
Now, my hope was that in this moment of crisis, we could come together and both parties would put politics aside, that we would come together to meet this once-in-a-generation challenge, because although we are proud Democrats, we are prouder to be Americans.

And you know, there are plenty of Republicans who feel the same way out there.
 
President Barack Obama said:
Now, my hope was that in this moment of crisis, we could come together and both parties would put politics aside, that we would come together to meet this once-in-a-generation challenge, because although we are proud Democrats, we are prouder to be Americans.

And you know, there are plenty of Republicans who feel the same way out there.
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But the Republican leaders in Washington, they made a different calculation.

They looked around at the mess that they had made, at the mess that they had left me, and they said, boy, this is a really big mess, and they said it’s going to take a long time to fix.

Unemployment is probably going to be high for a while, and in the meantime, people are going to get angry and frustrated.

So, maybe if we just sit on the sidelines, say no to everything, and then point our fingers at Obama and say he’s to blame.

They figured that maybe you all would forget that they caused the mess in the first place, and they’d be able to ride anger all the way to election time.
 
President Barack Obama said:
But the Republican leaders in Washington, they made a different calculation.

They looked around at the mess that they had made, at the mess that they had left me, and they said, boy, this is a really big mess, and they said it’s going to take a long time to fix.

Unemployment is probably going to be high for a while, and in the meantime, people are going to get angry and frustrated.

So, maybe if we just sit on the sidelines, say no to everything, and then point our fingers at Obama and say he’s to blame.

They figured that maybe you all would forget that they caused the mess in the first place, and they’d be able to ride anger all the way to election time.
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Their whole campaign strategy is amnesia, and so you need to remember that this election is a choice between the policies that got us into this mess and the policies that are leading out of this mess, a choice between the past and the future, a choice between hope and fear, a choice between moving forward or going backwards.

I don't know about you, but I want to move forward.
 
President Barack Obama said:
Their whole campaign strategy is amnesia, and so you need to remember that this election is a choice between the policies that got us into this mess and the policies that are leading out of this mess, a choice between the past and the future, a choice between hope and fear, a choice between moving forward or going backwards.

I don't know about you, but I want to move forward.
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Now, look, understand it would be one thing if the Republicans, having made this mess, they went off into the desert or into some retreat somewhere and they meditated on, boy, we really screwed up, and now let’s come up with some new ideas because we recognize the error of our ways.

But that's not what’s going on.

The Republican Campaign Committee chairman promised the “exact same agenda” if they win back the House and if they win back the Senate.

The same agenda of cutting taxes for millionaires and billionaires of cutting rules for the special interests, from cutting middle-class families loose to fend for themselves.

Their basic philosophy is, you’re on your own.

If you're sick, you don't have health care, too bad, you’re on your own.

You don't have a job, them’s the breaks, you’re on your own.

You’re a young person wants to get his education but can’t afford it, tough luck, you’re on your own.

It’s the same agenda that turned a record surplus into a record deficit.

The same agenda that allowed Wall Street to run wild.

The same agenda that nearly destroyed our economy.
 
President Barack Obama said:
Now, look, understand it would be one thing if the Republicans, having made this mess, they went off into the desert or into some retreat somewhere and they meditated on, boy, we really screwed up, and now let’s come up with some new ideas because we recognize the error of our ways.

But that's not what’s going on.

The Republican Campaign Committee chairman promised the “exact same agenda” if they win back the House and if they win back the Senate.

The same agenda of cutting taxes for millionaires and billionaires of cutting rules for the special interests, from cutting middle-class families loose to fend for themselves.

Their basic philosophy is, you’re on your own.

If you're sick, you don't have health care, too bad, you’re on your own.

You don't have a job, them’s the breaks, you’re on your own.

You’re a young person wants to get his education but can’t afford it, tough luck, you’re on your own.

It’s the same agenda that turned a record surplus into a record deficit.

The same agenda that allowed Wall Street to run wild.

The same agenda that nearly destroyed our economy.
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I bring all this up not because I want to re-argue the past.

I bring it up because I don't want to relive the past.

We can’t afford it.

I bring it up because it’s not as if we haven’t tried what they're selling.

We tried it.

We didn’t like it and we’re not going back to it.
 
Look, because of the steps that we’ve taken, we no longer face the possibility of a second depression.

The economy is growing again.

The private sector has seen job growth nine months in a row, but we’ve still got a long way to go.

We’ve still got a lot of work to do.

There are a lot of people out there still hurting.

I know there are a lot of families still hanging on by a thread.

That’s what keeps me up at night.

That’s what keeps me fighting.

That’s why all of you are here, because you know we’ve got more work to do.
 
President Barack Obama said:
Look, because of the steps that we’ve taken, we no longer face the possibility of a second depression.

The economy is growing again.

The private sector has seen job growth nine months in a row, but we’ve still got a long way to go.

We’ve still got a lot of work to do.

There are a lot of people out there still hurting.

I know there are a lot of families still hanging on by a thread.

That’s what keeps me up at night.

That’s what keeps me fighting.

That’s why all of you are here, because you know we’ve got more work to do.
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cawacko said:
Well considering the number of Democrats running against the health care bill and the current poll numbers for many Democrats in their re-election bids it seems pretty obvious not everyone shares your enthusiasm for it. Of course maybe if Obama could hire you to tell everyone all the wonderful benefits this bill is about to bring the polls might be different?
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Some politicians will run on any platform he/she thinks will attract the voters. The citizens have been lied to regarding HCR so the unscrupulous politicians go along with the citizens so as to get the votes even when knowing it's not in the best interest of the citizens.

And I am laughing my American *ss off at your Canadian fear of Americans having the option of putting 4% of their S.S. money in a personal account. I mean people cannot be trusted with that option. Don't us Americans know the worlds economy might collapse if we trust people with that type of choice?
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I'm sure there were a lot of laughing *sses just before the Great Depression, as well. Unfortunately, people can't grasp the reason behind SS/pensions.

Today's mantra is the government has always controlled pension money and the people should have a chance to control their own. What they fail to understand is people controlled their own pension money for thousands of years including the 150+ years in the US before SS was implemented. When the Depression came they quickly found out people didn't do a very good job. Thus, SS came into being.

It's a case of the same old tired, worn out, tried n' failed ideas the Republicans want to revert to.

It's the same thing with the health care plan. Governments the world over started out without any pension plan or health plan. Then those things were implemented and, guess what, they have kept them for 50 or 75 or more years. In fact, none, not ONE, has reverted.

Again, I ask, what is there to discuss?
 
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