Tonight, I'm nominating Barack Obama for the presidency of the United States.
These past few years, I have watched him do the near impossible.
When the country was on the brink of collapse from the worst financial crisis we've seen since the Great Depression, he got our economy growing again.
He rescued the auto industry at a time when his opponent was saying we should just "let Detroit go bankrupt." Because of President Obama, we've got a quarter of a million more people at work in the auto industry.
He passed health reform, a goal that others, myself included, had tried to achieve for nearly a century. He strongly believed it wasn't just a political imperative, but a moral and economic one. Millions of Americans are healthier and more financially secure because of it.
I don't think it's just important to make sure this president gets another four years to keep fighting I think it is absolutely essential.
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Barack Obama's opponent seems to think he's got a better idea. This is someone who presided over a state that, during his tenure, became 47th in the nation in job creation. His plan is to go back to the Bush economic policies, and then farther back still. Mitt Romney would cut programs that are critical to the middle class in order to give huge tax breaks to people who don't need them and aren't asking for them.
These trickle-down policies have failed us so many times before. These are the policies that hurt the middle class and brought painfully slow growth in the years after I left office.
We simply cannot afford to go back.
I'm nominating Barack Obama for president tonight because I believe that the choice in this election could not be clearer. But we've all got to do our part to make sure this country makes the right one this November.
And that starts with you, right now. Please give what you can today. Because Election Day is a lot closer than you think:
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