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  • PRESIDENT OBAMA: Thank you.

  • Thank you.

  • Thank you so much.

  • AUDIENCE: Four more years! Four more years! Four more years! Four more years!

  • PRESIDENT OBAMA: Thank you

  • AUDIENCE: Four more years! Four more years! Four more years! Four more years! Four more

  • years!

  • PRESIDENT OBAMA: Thank you so much

  • AUDIENCE: Four more years! Four more years!

  • PRESIDENT OBAMA: Thank you

  • AUDIENCE: Four more years! Four more years!

  • PRESIDENT OBAMA: Thank you very much everybody

  • Thank you

  • [CHEERS AND APPLAUSE]

  • Michelle, I love you so much.

  • [HOOTS]

  • A few nights ago everybody was reminded just what a lucky man I am.

  • [CHEERS AND APPLAUSE]

  • The other night, I think the entire country saw just how lucky I am. Malia and Sasha,

  • we are so proud of you.

  • [CHEERS]

  • And yes, you do have to go to school in the morning.

  • [LAUGHTER]

  • And Joe Biden, thank you for being the best Vice President I could have ever hoped for,

  • and being a strong and loyal friend.

  • [CHEERS AND APPLAUSE

  • Madam Chairwoman, delegates, I accept your nomination for President of the United States.

  • [EXTENDED CHEERS AND APPLAUSE

  • AUDIENCE: Four more years! Four more years! Four more years! Four more years! Four more

  • years! Four more years!

  • PRESIDENT OBAMA: The first time I addressed this convention in 2004, I was a younger man.

  • [LAUGHER]

  • A Senate candidate from Illinois who spoke about hopenot blind optimism or wishful

  • thinking, but hope in the face of difficulty; hope in the face of uncertainty; that dogged

  • faith in the future which has pushed this nation forward, even when the odds are great;

  • even when the road is long.   

  • Eight years later, that hope has been testedby the cost of war; by one of the worst

  • economic crises in history; and by political gridlock that’s left us wondering whether

  • it’s still even possible to tackle the challenges of our time.   

  •   I know that campaigns can seem small, and

  • even silly sometimesTrivial things become big distractionsSerious issues become

  • sound bitesAnd the truth gets buried under an avalanche of money and advertisingIf

  • youre sick of hearing me approve this message, believe meso am I. 

  • [LAUGHTER]

  • [CHEERS AND APPLAUSE]   

  • But when all is said and donewhen you pick up that ballot to voteyou will face

  • the clearest choice of any time in a generationOver the next few years, big decisions will

  • be made in Washington, on jobs and the economy; taxes and deficits; energy and education;

  • war and peacedecisions that will have a huge impact on our lives and on our children’s

  • lives for decades to come.       

  • On every issue, the choice you face won’t just be between two candidates or two parties

  •   It will be a choice between two different

  • paths for America.   

  • A choice between two fundamentally different visions for the future.

  •   Ours is a fight to restore the values that

  • built the largest middle class and the strongest economy the world has ever known.

  • [CHEERS AND APPLAUSEThe values my grandfather defended as a soldier

  • in Patton’s Army; the values that drove my grandmother to work on a bomber assembly

  • line while he was gone.    

  • They knew they were part of something larger – a nation that triumphed over fascism and

  • depression; a nation where the most innovative businesses turned out the world’s best products,

  • and everyone shared in the pride and successfrom the corner office to the factory

  • floorMy grandparents were given the chance to go to college, buy their own, their own

  • home, and fulfill the basic bargain at the heart of America’s storythe promise

  • that hard work will pay off; that responsibility will be rewarded; that everyone gets a fair

  • shot, and everyone does their fair share, and everyone plays by the same rulesfrom

  • Main Street to Wall Street to Washington, DC

  • [CHEERS AND APPLAUSE]   

  • I ran for President because I saw that basic bargain slipping away.  I began my career

  • helping people in the shadow of a shuttered steel mill, at a time when too many good jobs

  • were starting to move overseasAnd by 2008, we had seen nearly a decade in which families

  • struggled with costs that kept rising but paychecks that didn’t; folks racking up

  • more and more debt just to make the mortgage or pay tuition; to put gas in the car or food

  • on the tableAnd when the house of cards collapsed in the Great Recession, millions

  • of innocent Americans lost their jobs, their homes, and their life savings – a tragedy

  • from which were still fighting to recover.     

  • Now, our friends down in Tampa at the Republican convention were more than happy to talk about

  • everything they think is wrong with America, but they didn’t have much to say about how

  • they’d make it right

  • [APPLAUSE]

  • They want your vote, but they don’t want you to know their planAnd that’s because

  • all they have to offer is the same prescriptions theyve had for the last thirty years:

  •   “Have a surplus? Try a tax cut.” 

  •   “Deficit too high? Try another.”

  • [LAUGHTER]  

  • Feel a cold coming on? Take two tax cuts, roll back some regulations, and call us in

  • the morning!”

  • [EXTENDED CHEERS AND APPLAUSE]   

  • Now, I’ve cut taxes for those who need it --

  • [HOOTS]

  • middle-class families and small businessesBut I don’t believe that another round of

  • tax breaks for millionaires will bring good jobs to our shores, or pay down our deficit

  • I don’t believe that firing teachers or kicking students off financial aid will grow

  • the economy, or help us compete with the scientists and engineers coming out of China

  • [CHEERS AND APPLAUSE

  • After all that weve been through, I don’t believe that rolling back regulations on Wall

  • Street will help the small businesswoman expand, or the laid-off construction worker keep his

  • homeWe have been there, weve tried that, and were not going back.   Were

  • moving forward, America.  

  • [CHEERS AND APPLAUSE

  • Now I won’t pretend the path I’m offering is quick or easy.  I never haveYou didn’t

  • elect me to tell you what you wanted to hearYou elected me to tell you the truth

  • [CHEERS AND APPLAUSE

  • And the truth is, it will take more than a few years for us to solve challenges that

  • have built up over decadesIt will require common effort, shared responsibility, and

  • the kind of bold, persistent experimentation that Franklin Roosevelt pursued during the

  • only crisis worse than this oneAnd by the waythose of us who carry on his party’s

  • legacy should remember that not every problem can be remedied with another government program

  • or dictate from Washington.   

  • But know this, AmericaOur problems can be solved

  • [CHEERS]

  • Our challenges can be metThe path we offer may be harder, but it leads to a better place.

  • And I’m asking you to choose that future.  I’m asking you to rally around a set of

  • goals for your countrygoals in manufacturing, energy, education, national security, and

  • the deficit; a real, achievable plan that will lead to new jobs, more opportunity, and

  • rebuild this economy on a stronger foundation.   That’s what we can do in the next four years,

  • and that is why I’m running for a second term as President of the United States

  • [EXTENDED CHEERS AND APPLAUSE]   

  • AUDIENCE: Four more years! Four more years! Four more years! Four more years!

  • PRESIDENT OBAMA: We can choose a future where we export more products and outsource fewer

  • jobsAfter a decade that was defined by what we bought and borrowed, were getting

  • back to basics, and doing what America has always done best:

  •   Were making things again

  •   I’ve met workers in Detroit and Toledo

  • [CHEERS]

  • who feared they’d never build another American carToday, they can’t build

  • them fast enough, because we reinvented a dying auto industry that’s back on the top

  • of the world.  

  • [CHEERS AND APPLAUSE

  • AUDIENCE: U.S.A! U.S.A! U.S.A! U.S.A! U.S.A!   

  • PRESIDENT OBAMA: I’ve worked with business leaders who are bringing jobs back to America

  • not because our workers make less pay, but because we make better products

  • [CHEERS]

  • Because we work harder and smarter than anyone else.   

  •   I’ve signed trade agreements that are helping

  • our companies sell more goods to millions of new customersgoods that are stamped

  • with three proud wordsMade in America

  • [CHEERS AND APPLAUSE

  • AUDIENCE: U.S.A! U.S.A! U.S.A! U.S.A! U.S.A! U.S.A! U.S.A! U.S.A!   

  • PRESIDENT OBAMA: After a decade of decline, this country created over half a million manufacturing

  • jobs in the last two and a half yearsAnd now you have a choicewe can give more

  • tax breaks to corporations that ship jobs overseas, or we can start rewarding companies

  • that open new plants and train new workers and create new jobs here, in the United States

  • of America

  • [CHEERS AND APPLAUSE]

  • We can help big factories and small businesses double their exports, and if we choose this

  • path, we can create a million new manufacturing jobs in the next four yearsYou can make

  • that happenYou can choose that future.   

  • You can choose the path where we control more of our own energyAfter thirty years of

  • inaction, we raised fuel standards so that by the middle of the next decade, cars and

  • trucks will go twice as far on a gallon of gas.  

  • [CHEERS AND APPLAUSE]

  • Weve doubled our use of renewable energy, and thousands of Americans have jobs today

  • building wind turbines and long-lasting batteriesIn the last year alone, we cut oil imports

  • by one million barrels a daymore than any administration in recent history

  • [CHEERS]

  • And today, the United States of America is less dependent on foreign oil than at any

  • time in nearly two decades.

  • [CHEERS AND APPLAUSE]  

  • So now you have a choicebetween a strategy that reverses this progress, or one that builds

  • on itWeve opened millions of new acres for oil and gas exploration in the last three

  • years, and well open moreBut unlike my opponent, I will not let oil companies

  • write this country’s energy plan, or endanger our coastlines, or collect another $4 billion

  • in corporate welfare from our taxpayers

  • [CHEERS AND APPLAUSE]   

  • Were offering a better pathwhere we, a future where we keep investing in wind and

  • solar and clean coal; where farmers and scientists harness new biofuels to power our cars and

  • trucks; where construction workers build homes and factories that waste less energy; where

  • we develop a hundred year supply of natural gas that’s right beneath our feetIf

  • you choose this path, we can cut our oil imports in half by 2020 and support more than 600,000

  • new jobs in natural gas alone.   

  • And yes, my plan will continue to reduce the carbon pollution that is heating our planet

  • because climate change is not a hoaxMore droughts and floods and wildfires are

  • not a jokeTheyre a threat to our children’s futureAnd in this election, you can do

  • something about it

  • [CHEERS AND APPLAUSE]  

  • You can choose a future where more Americans have the chance to gain the skills they need

  • to compete, no matter how old they are or how much money they haveEducation was

  • the gateway to opportunity for meIt was the gateway for MichelleIt was the gateway

  • for most of you. And now more than ever, it is the gateway to a middle-class life

  •   For the first time in a generation, nearly

  • every state has answered our call to raise their standards for teaching and learning

  • Some of the worst schools in the country have made real gains in math and readingMillions

  • of students are paying less for college today because we finally took on a system that wasted

  • billions of taxpayer dollars on banks and lenders.

  •   And now you have a choicewe can gut education,

  • or we can decide that in the United States of America, no child should have her dreams

  • deferred because of a crowded classroom or a crumbling schoolNo family should have

  • to set aside a college acceptance letter because they don’t have the moneyNo company

  • should have to look for workers overseas because they couldn’t find any with the right skills

  • here at homeThat’s not our future. That is not our future.

  • [CHEERS AND APPLAUSE]  

  • Government has a role in thisBut teachers must inspire; principals must lead; parents

  • must instill a thirst for learning, and students, youve got to do the workAnd together,

  • I promise youwe can out-educate and out-compete any nation on EarthSo help me, help me

  • recruit 100,000 math and science teachers in the next ten years, and improve early childhood

  • education

  • [CHEERS AND APPLAUSE]

  • Help give two million workers the chance to learn skills at their community college that

  • will lead directly to a jobHelp us work with colleges and universities to cut in half

  • the growth of tuition costs over the next ten yearsWe can meet that goal together

  • You can choose that future for America

  • [EXTENDED CHEERS AND APPLAUSE]

  •   That’s our future. You know, in a world

  • of new threats and new challenges, you can choose leadership that has been tested and

  • provenFour years ago, I promised to end the war in IraqWe did

  • [CHEERS AND APPLAUSE]

  • I promised to refocus on the terrorists who actually attacked us on 9/11.  And we have

  • [CHEERS AND APPLAUSE]

  • Weve blunted the Taliban’s momentum in Afghanistan, and in 2014, our longest war

  • will be over

  • [CHEERS AND APPLAUSE]

  • A new tower rises above the New York skyline, al Qaeda is on the path to defeat, and Osama

  • bin Laden is dead.

  • [EXTENDED CHEERS AND APPLAUSE]

  • AUDIENCE: U.S.A!  U.S.A!  U.S.A!  U.S.A!  U.S.A!  U.S.A!  U.S.A!  U.S.A!  U.S.A!

  •  

  • PRESIDENT OBAMA: Tonight, we pay tribute to the Americans who still serve in harm’s

  • wayWe are forever in debt to a generation whose sacrifice has made this country safer

  • and more respectedWe will never forget youAnd so long as I’m Commander-in-Chief,

  • we will sustain the strongest military the world has ever knownWhen you take off

  • the uniform, we will serve you as well as youve served usbecause no one who

  • fights for this country should have to fight for a job, or a roof over their head, or the

  • care that they need when they come home.   

  • Around the world, weve strengthened old alliances and forged new coalitions to stop

  • the spread of nuclear weaponsWeve reasserted our power across the Pacific and stood up

  • to China on behalf of our workersFrom Burma to Libya to South Sudan, we have advanced

  • the rights and dignity of all human beingsmen and women; Christians and Muslims

  • and Jews.        

  • But for all the progress that weve made, challenges remainTerrorist plots must

  • be disruptedEurope’s crisis must be containedOur commitment to Israel’s

  • security must not waver, and neither must our pursuit of peace

  • [CHEERS]

  • The Iranian government must face a world that stays united against its nuclear ambitions

  • The historic change sweeping across the Arab World must be defined not by the iron fist

  • of a dictator or the hate of extremists, but by the hopes and aspirations of ordinary people

  • who are reaching for the same rights that we celebrate here today

  •   [CHEERS]

  • So now we have a choiceMy opponent and his running mate are new to foreign policy

  • [LAUGHTER]

  • but from all that weve seen and heard, they want to take us back to an era of blustering

  • and blundering that cost America so dearly.  

  • After all, you don’t call Russia our number one enemyand not al Qaeda, Russiaunless

  • youre still stuck in a Cold War mindwormYou might not be ready for diplomacy with

  • Beijing if you can’t visit the Olympics without insulting our closest ally

  • [APPLAUSE AND CHEERS]

  • My opponent said it wastragicto end the war in Iraq, and he won’t tell us how

  • hell end the war in AfghanistanWell I have, and I will

  • [CHEERS AND APPLAUSE]

  • And while my opponent would spend more money on military hardware that our Joint Chiefs

  • don’t even want, I’ll use the money were no longer spending on war to pay down our

  • debt and put more people back to work

  • [CHEERS AND APPLAUSE]

  • rebuilding roads and bridges; schools and runwaysAfter two wars that have cost

  • us thousands of lives and over a trillion dollars, it’s time to do some nation-building

  • right here at home.  

  • [CHEERS AND APPLAUSE]

  • You can choose a future where we reduce our deficit without sticking it to the middle

  • classIndependent analysis shows that my plan would cut our deficits by $4 trillion

  • Last summer, I worked with Republicans in Congress to cut $1 billion in spendingbecause

  • those of us who believe government can be a force for good should work harder than anyone

  • to reform it, so that it’s leaner, more efficient, and more responsive to the American

  • people

  • [APPLAUSE]  

  • I want to reform the tax code so that it’s simple, fair, and asks the wealthiest households

  • to pay higher taxes on incomes over $250,000 – the same rate we had when Bill Clinton

  • was president; the same rate we had when our economy created nearly 23 million new jobs,

  • the biggest surplus in history, and a whole lot of millionaires to boot

  •   Now, I’m still eager to reach an agreement

  • based on the principles of my bipartisan debt commissionNo party has a monopoly on wisdom

  • No democracy works without compromise.  I want to get this done, and we can get it done.

  • But when Governor Romney and his allies in Congress tell us we can somehow lower our

  • deficits by spending trillions more on new tax breaks for the wealthywell, what

  • did Bill Clinton call it? “Well, you do the arithmetic.”  You do the math. I refuse

  • to go along with thatAnd as long as I’m President, I never will

  •   [CHEERS]

  • I refuse to ask middle class families to give up their deductions for owning a home or raising

  • their kids just to pay for another millionaire’s tax cut

  • [CHEERS AND APPLAUSE]

  • I refuse to ask students to pay more for college; or kick children out of Head Start programs,

  • or eliminate health insurance for millions of Americans who are poor, elderly, or disabled

  • all so those with the most can pay less

  • [CHEERS AND APPLAUSE]

  • I’m not going along with that!

  • [EXTENDED CHEERS AND APPLAUSE]

  • AUDIENCE MEMBER: Four more years! Four more years! Four more years!

  •   PRESIDENT OBAMA: And I will never turn Medicare

  • into a voucher

  • [CHEERS AND APPLAUSE]

  • No American should ever have to spend their golden years at the mercy of insurance companies

  • They should retire with the care and dignity they have earnedYes, we will reform and

  • strengthen Medicare for the long haul, but well do it by reducing the cost of health

  • carenot by asking seniors to pay thousands of dollars more

  • [AUDIENCE MEMBER HOOTS LOUDLY]

  • And we will keep the promise of Social Security by taking the responsible steps to strengthen

  • itnot by turning it over to Wall Street.  

  • [CHEERS AND APPLAUSE]  

  • This is the choice we now faceThis is what the election comes down toOver and

  • over, we have been told by our opponents that bigger tax cuts and fewer regulations are

  • the only way; that since government can’t do everything, it should do almost nothing

  • If you can’t afford health insurance, hope that you don’t get sickIf a company

  • releases toxic pollution into the air your children breathe, well, that’s just the

  • price of progressIf you can’t afford to start a business or go to college, take

  • my opponent’s advice andborrow money from your parents.” 

  • [LAUGHTER, APPLAUSE, BOOS]  

  • You know whatThat’s not who we areThat’s not what this country’s about

  • As Americans, we believe we are endowed by our Creator with certain inalienable rights

  • rights that no man or government can take awayWe insist on personal responsibility

  • and we celebrate individual initiativeWere not entitled to successWe have

  • to earn itWe honor the strivers, the dreamers, the risk-takers, the entrepreneurs who have

  • always been the driving force behind our free enterprise systemthe greatest engine

  • of growth and prosperity the world has ever known

  •   But we also believe in something called citizenship.

  • [CHEERS AND APPLAUSE]

  • Citizenship – a word at the very heart of our founding, at the very essence of our democracy;

  • the idea that this country only works when we accept certain obligations to one another,

  • and to future generations.   

  • We believe that when a CEO pays his autoworkers enough to buy the cars that they build, the

  • whole company does better

  • [CHEERS AND APPLAUSE]  

  • We believe that when a family can no longer be tricked into signing a mortgage they can’t

  • afford, that family is protected, but so is the value of other people’s homes, and so

  • is the entire economy

  • [CHEERS AND APPLAUSE]  

  • We believe that a little girl who’s offered an escape from poverty by a great teacher

  • or a grant for college could become the next Steve Jobs, or the scientist who cures cancer,

  • or the President of the United Statesand it is in our power to give her that chance

  • [EXTENDED CHEERS AND APPLAUSE]  

  • We know that churches and charities can often make more of a difference than a poverty program

  • aloneWe don’t want handouts for people who refuse to help themselves, and we certainly

  • don’t want bailouts for banks that break the rulesWe don’t think government can

  • solve all our problemsBut we don’t think that government is the source of all our problems

  • any more than are welfare recipients, or corporations, or unions, or immigrants,

  • or gays, or any other group were told to blame for our troubles.

  • [EXTENDED CHEERS AND APPLAUSE]   

  • Because, because America, we understand that this democracy is ours

  •   We, the People, recognize that we have responsibilities

  • as well as rights; that our destinies are bound together; that a freedom which asks

  • only what’s in it for me, a freedom without a commitment to others, a freedom without

  • love or charity or duty or patriotism, is unworthy of our founding ideals, and those

  • who died in their defense

  • [CHEERS AND APPLAUSE]  

  • As citizens, we understand that America is not about what can be done FOR usIt’s

  • about what can be done BY us, together, through the hard and frustrating but necessary work

  • of self-governmentThat’s what we believe.  

  • So you see, the election four years ago wasn’t about meIt was about youMy fellow

  • citizensyou were the change

  • [CHEERS]  

  • Youre the reason there’s a little girl with a heart disorder in Phoenix wholl

  • get the surgery she needs because an insurance company can’t limit her coverageYou

  • did that.   

  • [CHEERS AND APPLAUSE]

  • Youre the reason a young man in Colorado who never thought he’d be able to afford

  • his dream of earning a medical degree is about to get that chanceYou made that possible

  •   Youre the reason a young immigrant who

  • grew up here and went to school here and pledged allegiance to our flag will no longer be deported

  • from the only country she’s ever called home.

  • [CHEERS AND APPLAUSE]

  • Why selfless soldiers won’t be kicked out of the military because of who they are or

  • who they love; why thousands of families have finally been able to say to the loved ones

  • who served us so bravely: “Welcome home.” 

  • [EXTENDED CHEERS AND APPLAUSE]

  • Welcome home.” You did that! You did that! You did that!

  • [CHEERS AND APPLAUSE]

  • If you turn away nowif you buy into the cynicism that the change we fought for isn’t

  • possiblewell, change will not happenIf you give up on the idea that your voice

  • can make a difference, then other voices will fill the void: lobbyists and special interests;

  • the people with the $10 million checks who are trying to buy this election and those

  • who are trying to make it harder for you to vote; Washington politicians who want to decide

  • who you can marry, or control health care choices that women should be making for themselves

  • [CHEERS AND APPLAUSE

  • Only you can make sure that doesn’t happenOnly you have the power to move us forward

  • [CHEERS, INDIVIDUAL AUDIENCE MEMBERS SHOUT EMOTIONALLY]

  •   I recognize that times have changed since

  • I first spoke to this conventionThe times have changedand so have I.

  •   I’m no longer just a candidate.  I’m

  • the President

  • [EXTENDED CHEERS AND APPLAUSE]

  • And that, and that

  • AUDIENCE: Four more years! Four more years!

  • PRESIDENT OBAMA: And that means I know what it means to send young Americans into battle,

  • for I have held in my arms the mothers and fathers of those who didn’t return.  I’ve

  • shared the pain of families whove lost their homes, and the frustration of workers

  • whove lost their jobsIf the critics are right that I’ve made all my decisions

  • based on polls, then I must not be very good at reading them

  • [LAUGHTER]

  • And while I’m very proud of what weve achieved together, I’m far more mindful

  • of my own failings, knowing exactly what Lincoln meant when he said, “I have been driven

  • to my knees many times by the overwhelming conviction that I had no place else to go.”  

  •   [CHEERS AND APPLAUSE]

  • But as I stand here tonight, I have never been more hopeful about America

  • [CHEERS]

  • Not because I think I have all the answersNot because I’m naïve about the magnitude

  • of our challenges.   

  • I’m hopeful because of you.   

  • The young woman I met at a science fair who won national recognition for her biology research

  • while living with her family at a homeless sheltershe gives me hope

  •   [CHEERS AND APPLAUSE]

  • The auto worker who won the lottery after his plant almost closed, but kept coming to

  • work every day, and bought flags for his whole town and one of the cars that he built to

  • surprise his wifehe gives me hope.   

  • [CHEERS]

  • The family business in Warroad, Minnesota

  • [ISOLATED PART OF AUDIENCE CHEERS]

  • that didn’t lay off a single one of their four thousand employees during this recession,

  • even when their competitors shut down dozens of plants, even when it meant the owners gave

  • up some perks and some paybecause they understood their biggest asset was the community

  • and the workers who had helped build that businessthey give me hope

  •   [CHEERS AND APPLAUSE]

  • AUDIENCE MEMBER: Hope!

  • PRESIDENT OBAMA: And I think about the young sailor I met at Walter Reed hospital, still

  • recovering from a grenade attack that would cause him to have his leg amputated above

  • the kneeSix months ago, we would watch him walk into a White House dinner honoring

  • those who served in Iraq, tall and twenty pounds heavier, dashing in his uniform, with

  • a big grin on his face; sturdy on his new legAnd I remember how a few months after

  • that I would watch him on a bicycle, racing with his fellow wounded warriors on a sparkling

  • spring day, inspiring other heroes who had just begun the hard path he had traveled

  •   He gives me hope

  • [CHEERS AND APPLAUSE]  

  • He gives me hope. I don’t know what party these men and women belong to.  I don’t

  • know if theyll vote for meBut I know that their spirit defines usThey remind

  • me, in the words of Scripture, that ours is a “future filled with hope.” 

  • [HOOTS AND CHEERS]  

  • And if you share that faith with meif you share that hope with me – I ask you

  • tonight for your vote

  • FEMALE AUDIENCE MEMBER: You got our vote!

  • [EXTENDED CHEERS AND APPLAUSE]

  • PRESIDENT OBAMA: If you reject the notion that this nation’s promise is reserved for

  • the few, your voice must be heard in this election

  • SAME AUDIENCE MEMBER: You will!

  • [ENDURING CHEERS AND APPLAUSE]

  • PRESIDENT OBAMA: If you reject the notion that our government is forever beholden to

  • the highest bidder, you need to stand up in this election

  • [CHEERS AND APPLAUSE]

  • If you believe that new plants and factories can dot our landscape; that new energy can

  • power our future; that new schools can provide ladders of opportunity to this nation of dreamers;

  • if you believe in a country where everyone gets a fair shot, and everyone does their

  • fair share, and everyone plays by the same rules, then I need you to vote this November

  •   [HOOTS, ENDURING CHEERS AND APPLAUSE]

  • America, I never said this journey would be easy, and I won’t promise that nowYes,

  • our path is harderbut it leads to a better place

  • AUDIENCE: Yes!

  • PRESIDENT OBAMA: Yes our road is longerbut we travel it together

  • AUDIENCE: Yes!

  • PRESIDENT OBAMA: We don’t turn back

  • AUDIENCE: No!

  • PRESIDENT OBAMA: We leave no one behind

  • AUDIENCE: No!

  • PRESIDENT OBAMA: We pull each other up

  • [ENDURING CHEERS AND APPLAUSE WHILE OBAMA CONTINUES]

  • We draw strength from our victories, and we learn from our mistakes, but we keep our eyes

  • fixed on that distant horizon, knowing that Providence is with us, and that we are surely

  • blessed to be citizens of the greatest nation on Earth

  •   Thank you, God bless you, and may God bless

  • these United States.

  • [CHEERS AND APPLAUSE GROW]

  • [“WE TAKE CARE OF OUR OWNBY BRUCE SPRINGSTEIN PLAYS]

  • ♫ I've been knockin' on the door that holds the throne ♫

  • ♫ I've been lookin' for the map that leads me home ♫

  • ♫ I've been stumblin' on good hearts turned to stone ♫

  • The road of good intentions has gone dry as bone ♫

  • We take care of our own ♫

  • We take care of our own ♫

  • Wherever this flag's flown ♫

  • We take care of our own ♫

  • We take care of our own ♫

  • We take care of our own ♫

PRESIDENT OBAMA: Thank you.

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