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From: Nicole Holland
Subject: Have you heard about Neighbor to Neighbor?
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So please take a moment to learn more about how you can help with our new Neighbor to Neighbor tool, here's the link to our training page:
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Obama delivers ‘closing argument’
By CARRIE BUDOFF BROWN | 10/27/08
CANTON, Ohio— Barack Obama sought Monday to close out a 21-month bid for the White House by unveiling the final iteration of his stump speech, urging supporters for one more week of work so he can help restore economic prosperity and political civility.
Mixing the feel-good rhetoric of his early speeches and the policy details of his general election campaign, Obama delivered a “closing argument” heavily focused on the economy and his belief that John McCain would perpetuate President Bush’s “failed policies.”
“The question in this election is not ‘Are you better off than you were four years ago?’” Obama said in his 31-minute speech here. “We know the answer to that. The real question is, ‘Will this country be better off four years from now?’”
With polls showing Obama leading McCain in this battleground state, as well as nationally, the Democratic nominee pleaded with his supporters not to grow complacent.
“Don’t believe for a second this election is over,” Obama said, speaking to a crowd of 4,900 that waved American flags instead of the customary campaign signs. “Don’t think for a minute that power concedes. We have a lot of work to do this week. We have to work like our future depends on it in this last week, because it does.”
In the final days of the campaign, Obama is taking steps similar to those he used in the week before the Iowa caucus, the crucial first test of his candidacy. He delivered a “closing argument” speech followed several days later by a two-minute TV ad that ran during Iowa’s local evening news. His speech Monday precedes a 30-minute national primetime ad scheduled to air Wednesday at 8 p.m. on network TV.
As he campaigns in almost a dozen states over the next week, Obama is expected to deliver the same remarks he did Monday, hitting themes that mirror those of his announcement address in February 2007 and his Iowa “closing argument” in December 2007. He also reached back Monday to his 2004 speech at the Democratic National Convention.
Despite his own participation in partisan combat, Obama reprised his 2004 call "to get beyond the old ideological debates and divides between left and right.” He chided Republicans for going on the attack, making a “big election about small things,” and suggesting some parts of the country were more patriotic than others.
“As I’ve said from the day we began this journey all those months ago, the change we need isn’t just about new programs and policies,” Obama said. “It’s about a new politics – a politics that calls on our better angels instead of encouraging our worst instincts; one that reminds us of the obligations we have to ourselves and one another.”
Reflecting just how dominant the economy has become in the campaign since Iowa, back when Obama spoke largely in generalities, he spent much of his time Monday arguing that his ideas on this key issue were superior to McCain’s.
“The plain truth is that John McCain has stood with this president every step of the way,” Obama said, citing the Arizona senator’s support of Bush’s tax cuts, budgets and deregulation efforts.
“And now, after twenty-one months and three debates, Sen. McCain still has not been able to tell the American people a single major thing he’d do differently from George Bush when it comes to the economy. Senator McCain says that we can’t spend the next four years waiting for our luck to change, but you understand that the biggest gamble we can take is embracing the same old Bush-McCain policies that have failed us for the last eight years.”
Obama said the economic crisis and the war in Iraq “means that Washington will have to tighten its belt and put off spending on things we can afford to do without,” though he did not offer specifics.
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