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Obama, Barack - President

Hello, Miami! (Applause.) It is good to be back! (Applause.) It is good to be back in Miami. I was just in Florida and it is true that Sasha outscored...

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Obama, Barack - President

There are a number of people that I want to acknowledge. Obviously, first of all, you have got a wonderful senior senator right here in Florida, who’s...

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Obama, Barack - President

So, as I said, it’s just great to be with friends. And you were with me when we were up, you were with me when we were down. If it weren’t for...

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Obama, Barack - President

At a difficult time like this, you need somebody in Tallahassee like Alex. She combines the sensibility of a successful businesswoman with the tenacity...

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Obama, Barack - President

So Alex knows what it takes to change business-as-usual in Tallahassee. She’s not afraid to take on the status quo. She’s done it before; she’s...

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Obama, Barack - President

Let me also say something about the next senator from the state of Florida -- Kendrick Meek. (Applause.) Kendrick has been a champion of middle-class...

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Obama, Barack - President

Eighteen months ago, I took office after nearly a decade of economic policies that produced sluggish growth and falling incomes and falling wages, and...

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Obama, Barack - President

And behind these numbers, behind these statistics there’s a story of heartache and frustration. A factory worker who was just a few years shy of...

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Obama, Barack - President

I hear these stories every day. I read them in letters every night. The struggles and the hopes of these Americans are why I ran for office in the...

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Obama, Barack - President

Now, Florida, we’re not there yet. We are not there yet. We know that. It took us close to a decade to dig ourselves into this hole; it’s going...

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Eight years? (Laughter and applause.)

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Obama, Barack - President

It takes time to bring back eight million jobs. That’s the hard truth. Somebody tells you different they’re probably running for office. (Laughter.)

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Obama, Barack - President

After 18 months, I have never been more confident that we are headed in the right direction. We are doing what’s needed to move forward. (Applause.)...

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Obama, Barack - President

We did not become the most prosperous country in the world by rewarding greed and recklessness of the sort that helped cause this financial crisis....

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Obama, Barack - President

This is a serious time. Right now, countries like China and India and South Korea, Germany, they are fighting as hard as they can for the jobs of the...

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Obama, Barack - President

Now, let me tell you, Florida, the United States of America, we do not play for second place. We play for first place. (Applause.) We’ve got to...

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Obama, Barack - President

And we've got to have an energy strategy in this country. Instead of prolonging an addiction to oil that endangers everything from our security to...

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Obama, Barack - President

We’ve got to invest in 21st century infrastructure. That means new bridges and new roads, but it also means faster Internet, high-speed railroad...

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Obama, Barack - President

Now, you will remember a while back, this was an industry -- the auto industry -- that had lost hundreds of thousands of jobs in the year before I took...

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Obama, Barack - President

And we got all the stakeholders together and worked hard, helped GM through bankruptcy; helped Chrysler through bankruptcy. And today all three automakers...

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Obama, Barack - President

I visited a Chrysler plant in Detroit a few weeks back, and this was a plant that would have shut down had we not moved forward. And now they’re...

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Obama, Barack - President

And that symbolizes something. It sends a message that sometimes the naysayers in Washington don't understand: Do not bet against the American worker....

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Obama, Barack - President

But to come back strong, to rebuild for the long run, we've got work. We've got to ensure that our workers can compete with any workers on Earth. ...

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Obama, Barack - President

To lower the costs to families and businesses, we passed health insurance reform that will finally make coverage affordable and stop insurance companies...

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Obama, Barack - President

To make sure that everybody is participating in our economy, I signed into law legislation that makes sure we've got equal pay for equal work, because...

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Obama, Barack - President

To keep faith with the brave men and women who risk their lives for ours, and to help build the middle class like the Greatest Generation built itself...

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Obama, Barack - President

To ensure that a financial crisis like the one doesn’t happen again, we passed financial reform that provides new accountability and tough oversight...

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Obama, Barack - President

And these reforms, all these reforms taken together, are going to make America more competitive in the 21st century. They move us forward. And on...

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Obama, Barack - President

Remember our campaign slogan, “Yes we can”? (Applause.) This year, their campaign slogan is, “No, we can’t.” (Laughter.) It’s pretty...

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Obama, Barack - President

Why do they keep on saying no? Well, part of it is, is that they just can't give up on the bankrupt economic policies that they have been peddling...

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Obama, Barack - President

Now, the advantage of this economic philosophy is it’s simple. (Laughter.) The disadvantage of this philosophy is it doesn’t work out real well....

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Obama, Barack - President

These guys now, they’re all running on, well, Democrats are the spending party. Think about this. We had record surpluses. When I arrived in the...

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AUDIENCE MEMBER

War.

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AUDIENCE MEMBERS

Two wars.

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AUDIENCE MEMBER

Bad President. (Laughter.)

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Obama, Barack - President

We got a lot of options here. (Laughter.) But it’s not a real attractive list. (Laughter.) So when these guys get on their high horse about spending,...

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Obama, Barack - President

Now, I'm bringing this up not to re-litigate the past. I just don’t want to relive the past. (Laughter and applause.) It was hard enough -- it’s...

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Obama, Barack - President

And I would embrace it. I would say, great, you got new ideas? Come on, let’s work together. Let’s figure out how we can move the country forward....

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Obama, Barack - President

So basically, what they’re really betting on -- I mean, their whole campaign strategy is that all of you have come down with a case of amnesia. (Laughter.)...

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Obama, Barack - President

Imagine the economy is a car. And they’re driving along -- and I don't know what they’re doing. They’re not paying much attention to the road....

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Obama, Barack - President

They’re like -- we say, you guys want to come down and help push? “No, no, that's okay. Push harder, though.” (Laughter.) “You're not pushing...

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Obama, Barack - President

Finally, finally after all this work, we get the car back up on level ground. We're ready to move forward. Some of these guys tap us on the shoulder....

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Obama, Barack - President

I don't know if any of you have thought of this, but when you want your car going forward, what do you do? You put it into “D.” When you want...

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Obama, Barack - President

That's what this election is about -- moving forward. America always moves forward.

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Obama, Barack - President

If you want to know what will happen if the other party takes over Congress, all you’ve got to do is take a look at what they’ve done the last 18...

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Obama, Barack - President

On Wall Street reform -- I mean, think about this -- the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression, and they want to go back to doing the same...

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Obama, Barack - President

That's what’s at stake in this election. If we give them the keys back, they will drive this economy right back into the ditch. And riding shotgun...

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Obama, Barack - President

And let me be clear about how we're going to move our economy forward. The key to moving this economy forward is going to be the private sector. Government...

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Obama, Barack - President

We can’t go back to an attitude where whatever is good for me is good enough. We got to start asking what’s good for America? What’s best for...

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Obama, Barack - President

So, Florida, I know times are tough. When times are tough, it can be easy to give in to cynicism, it can be easy to give in to fear. Sometimes we...

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Obama, Barack - President

You know, during the course of the last 18 months there have been times where I've taken positions that surprise people in Washington. All the pundits,...

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Obama, Barack - President

And if you’ll join Alex Sink, and if you’ll join Kendrick Meek, and you join me to build a future where all our kids are getting educated, and small...

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Obama, Barack - President

Thank you very much, everybody. God bless you. God bless the United States of America. Thank you. (Applause.)

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