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Obama, Barack - President
Hello, Colorado! (Applause.) It is good to be back in Denver! (Applause.) Can everybody please give Lily a big round of applause for the great introduction.... |
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We love you, Obama! |
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Obama, Barack - President
(Laughter.) I love you back. (Applause.) |
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Obama, Barack - President
Now, the reason I was in Denver, obviously, is to see all of you, and it’s always pretty. (Laughter.) But we also had our first debate last night.... |
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Obama, Barack - President
The real Mitt Romney said we don’t need any more teachers in our classrooms. |
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AUDIENCE, -
Booo -- |
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Obama, Barack - President
Don’t boo -- vote. (Laughter and applause.) |
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Obama, Barack - President
But the fellow on stage last night, he loves teachers -- can’t get enough of them. (Laughter.) The Mitt Romney we all know invested in companies... |
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Obama, Barack - President
Now, we know for sure it was not the real Mitt Romney, because he seems to be doing just fine with his current accountant. (Laughter.) So you see,... |
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Obama, Barack - President
Governor Romney cannot pay for his $5 trillion tax plan without blowing up the deficit or sticking it to the middle class. That’s the math. We can’t... |
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Obama, Barack - President
Now, I’ve got a different view about how we create jobs and prosperity. This country doesn’t succeed when we only see the rich getting richer.... |
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Obama, Barack - President
We don’t believe that anybody is entitled to success in this country, but we do believe in something called opportunity. We believe in a country... |
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AUDIENCE, -
Four more years! Four more years! |
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Obama, Barack - President
What I talked about last night was a new economic patriotism -- a patriotism that's rooted in the belief that growing our economy begins with a strong,... |
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Obama, Barack - President
That means we export more jobs and we outsource -- export more products and we outsource fewer jobs. Over the last three years, we came together to... |
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Obama, Barack - President
And so now you’ve got a choice. We can keeping giving tax breaks to corporations that ship jobs overseas, or we can start rewarding companies that... |
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Obama, Barack - President
We can help big factories and small businesses double their exports, and create a million new manufacturing jobs over the next four years. You can... |
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Obama, Barack - President
I want to control more of our own energy. After 30 years of inaction, we raised fuel standards so that by the middle of the next decade, your cars... |
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Obama, Barack - President
We’ve doubled the amount of renewable energy we generate from sources like wind and solar. And thousands of Americans have jobs today building wind... |
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Obama, Barack - President
So now you’ve got a choice between a plan that reverses this progress, or one that builds on it. Last night, my opponent says he refuses to close... |
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Obama, Barack - President
I want to give more Americans the chance to learn the skills they need to compete. I talked last night about how education was the gateway of opportunity... |
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Obama, Barack - President
We can gut education to pay for more tax breaks for the wealthy, or we can decide that in the United States of America, no child should have her dream... |
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Obama, Barack - President
So we’re going to recruit 100,000 new math and science teachers, and we’re going to improve early childhood education, and we’re going to create... |
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Obama, Barack - President
And finally, I’ve got a balanced plan that independent experts say will cut the deficit by $4 trillion through a mix of spending cuts and higher taxes... |
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Obama, Barack - President
Now, last night, Governor Romney ruled out raising a dime of taxes on anybody ever, no matter how much money they make. He ruled out closing the loophole... |
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AUDIENCE, -
Booo -- |
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Obama, Barack - President
That was his answer. I mean, thank goodness somebody is finally getting tough on Big Bird. (Laughter and applause.) It’s about time. We didn't... |
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And Elmo! |
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Obama, Barack - President
Elmo, too? (Laughter.) |
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Obama, Barack - President
Look, the fact is Governor Romney’s math just doesn’t add up. And I had to spend a lot of time last night trying to pin it down. The only one... |
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Obama, Barack - President
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... |
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Obama, Barack - President
And I will never turn Medicare into a voucher. (Applause.) Governor Romney doubled down on that proposal last night and he is wrong. No American... |
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Obama, Barack - President
So, yes, we'll reform and strengthen Medicare for the long haul, but we’ll do it by reducing the cost of health care -- not by asking seniors to pay... |
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Obama, Barack - President
Now, going forward we're going to have a chance to talk a little bit about what's going on overseas, because our prosperity at home is linked to what... |
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Obama, Barack - President
But we still face serious threats around the world. We saw that just a few weeks ago. And that’s why, so long as I’m Commander-in-Chief, we will... |
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Obama, Barack - President
Now, it will be interesting to see what the guy who was playing Mitt Romney yesterday -- (laughter) -- will say about foreign policy when we meet next,... |
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Obama, Barack - President
So this is the choice we now face. This is what the election comes down to. Over and over, we've been told by our opponents that since government... |
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Obama, Barack - President
As I described last night, that’s not who we are. That’s not what this country is about. Here in America, we believe we’re all in this together.... |
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Obama, Barack - President
You understand that. You understand that, Denver. You are the reason that there's a teacher in Pueblo who, with her husband, can buy her first phone... |
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Obama, Barack - President
You’re the reason that a woman outside Durango can get the treatment she needs to beat cancer, now that there are affordable plans to cover preexisting... |
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Obama, Barack - President
You’re the reason that thousands of students at CU Boulder, and Colorado State, and University of Denver have more help paying for college this year.... |
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Obama, Barack - President
You’re 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... |
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Obama, Barack - President
You're the reason why an outstanding soldier won’t be kicked out of the military because of who he loves. (Applause.) You're the reason why thousands... |
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Obama, Barack - President
If you turn away now -- if you buy into the cynicism that somehow the change we fought for isn’t possible, then of course, change won’t happen.... |
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AUDIENCE, -
Booo -- |
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Obama, Barack - President
Only you can make change happen. Only you have the power to move us forward. (Applause.) |
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Obama, Barack - President
From the day we began this campaign, I always said real change takes time. It takes more than one term. It takes more even than one President or one... |
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Obama, Barack - President
In 2008, 47 percent of the country didn’t vote for me. But on the night of the election, I said to all those Americans, I may not have won your vote,... |
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Obama, Barack - President
And so I want to say to Denver, I want to say to the entire great state of Colorado: I don’t know how many of you will be with me this time around... |
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Obama, Barack - President
The values we care about don’t just belong to workers or businesses, or the rich or the poor, or the 1 percent or the 99 percent -- they are American... |
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Obama, Barack - President
I still believe that our politics is not as divided as it seems sometimes. I still believe in you. I’m asking you to keep on believing in me. (Applause.)... |
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Obama, Barack - President
Thank you, everybody. God bless you, and God bless the United States of America. (Applause.) |