the presid __PUNCT__
hello __PUNCT__ iowa __PUNCT__ it is good to be back in dubuqu __PUNCT__ it is good to be back close to home __PUNCT__
i wa just talk backstag __PUNCT__ you get close to the midwest __PUNCT__ and suddenli __PUNCT__ everybodi is just nice __PUNCT__
__PUNCT__ laughter __PUNCT__ feel good __PUNCT__
can everybodi pleas give sandi a big round of applaus for the great introduct __PUNCT__ and give sandi son a big round of applaus for serv our countri __PUNCT__
give it up for john mellencamp __PUNCT__ it is wonder to be here __PUNCT__
for the last sever dai __PUNCT__ all of us have been focus on on of the worst storm in our lifetim __PUNCT__ what been happen on the east coast __PUNCT__
and i know i speak for the countri when i sai our thought and prayer ar with those who lost love on __PUNCT__ peopl whose live have been upend __PUNCT__
folk here in iowa know someth about flood __PUNCT__ you rememb what happen just a few year ago __PUNCT__
and the recoveri process is tough __PUNCT__
but when i visit new jersei __PUNCT__ i told folk there that everybodi all across the countri feel the same wai __PUNCT__
we ar go to be with peopl everi step of the wai __PUNCT__ down the long __PUNCT__ hard road of recoveri __PUNCT__
we go to help them rebuild __PUNCT__
we go to do it togeth __PUNCT__
that what american do __PUNCT__
in fact __PUNCT__ in the middl of the tragedi __PUNCT__ we were also inspir by hero run into build __PUNCT__ wade through water __PUNCT__ our first __PUNCT__ respond __PUNCT__ our firefight __PUNCT__ em team __PUNCT__ neighbor help neighbor cope with tragedi __PUNCT__ leader of differ parti work togeth to fix what broken __PUNCT__ a spirit that sai no matter how bad a storm is __PUNCT__ no matter how tough time mai get __PUNCT__ we alwai bounc back __PUNCT__
we all in thi togeth __PUNCT__
we rise or fall as on nation __PUNCT__
that what we believ __PUNCT__ and that spirit ha guid thi countri along it improb journei for two centuri now __PUNCT__
and it carri us through the last __NUM__ year __PUNCT__
rememb __PUNCT__ in __NUM__ we were in the middl of two war and the worst econom crisi sinc the great depress __PUNCT__
todai __PUNCT__ our busi have creat nearli 5½ million new job __PUNCT__
the american auto industri is back on top __PUNCT__
home valu ar on the rise __PUNCT__
we less depend on foreign oil than ani time in the last __NUM__ year __PUNCT__
becaus of the servic and sacrific of our brave men and women in uniform __PUNCT__ the war in iraq is over __PUNCT__ the war in afghanistan is wind down __PUNCT__ al qaida is on the run __PUNCT__ usama bin laden is dead __PUNCT__
so we have made real progress __PUNCT__ iowa __PUNCT__ these past __NUM__ year __PUNCT__
but we here thi even becaus we know we got more work to do __PUNCT__
as long as there a singl american who want a job and can't find on __PUNCT__ our job is not done __PUNCT__
as long as there ar famili work harder __PUNCT__ but fall behind __PUNCT__ we got more work to do __PUNCT__
as long as there a child anywher in iowa __PUNCT__ anywher thi countri __PUNCT__ who languish in poverti or bar from opportun __PUNCT__ our fight goe on __PUNCT__
our fight goe on becaus we know thi countri cannot succe without a grow __PUNCT__ thrive middl class and strong __PUNCT__ sturdi ladder for everybodi who will to work hard to get into the middl class __PUNCT__
our fight goe on becaus america ha alwai done best when everybodi ha a fair shot __PUNCT__ everybodi is do their fair share __PUNCT__ everybodi is plai by the same rule __PUNCT__
that what we believ in __NUM__ that what we believ todai __PUNCT__ and that is why i run for a second term as presid of the unit state of america __PUNCT__
audienc member __PUNCT__
four more year __PUNCT__ four more year __PUNCT__ four more year __PUNCT__ the presid __PUNCT__
now __PUNCT__ in iowa __PUNCT__ in __NUM__ dai __PUNCT__ you have a choic to make __PUNCT__
and some of you have made it __PUNCT__ becaus we have earli vote in iowa __PUNCT__
but if __PUNCT__ but for those of you who have not __PUNCT__ it not just a choic between two candid or two parti __PUNCT__
it a choic between two differ vision of america __PUNCT__
it a choic between go back to the top __PUNCT__ down econom that crash our economi or embrac a futur where we build a strong and grow middl class __PUNCT__
as american __PUNCT__ we honor the striver and the dreamer __PUNCT__ the small __PUNCT__ busi men and women __PUNCT__ the entrepreneur __PUNCT__ the risk taker __PUNCT__ the free enterpris system that the greatest engin of prosper the world ha ever known __PUNCT__
but we also know that our market work best __PUNCT__ the free enterpris system work best when everybodi is particip __PUNCT__ when we make sure that everybodi ha got a good educ and everybodi can learn new skill __PUNCT__ when we support research into medic breakthrough or clean energi technolog __PUNCT__
we think that america is stronger when everybodi can count on afford health care and medicar and social secur in their retir __PUNCT__
we think the market work better when there ar rule in place to protect our kid from toxic dump __PUNCT__ to protect consum from be taken advantag of by unscrupul credit card compani or mortgag lender __PUNCT__
we don't want govern do everyth __PUNCT__ we think that we can do most thing ourselv __PUNCT__ but there ar time where we can come togeth __PUNCT__
and we certainli don't want govern get involv in the wrong thing __PUNCT__ for exampl __PUNCT__ we think we don't need politician __PUNCT__ especi __PUNCT__ mostli male politician __PUNCT__ to try to control health care choic that women ar perfectli capabl of make themselv __PUNCT__
now __PUNCT__ for __NUM__ year __PUNCT__ we had a presid who share these belief __PUNCT__ hi name wa bill clinton __PUNCT__
hi econom plan __PUNCT__ like mine __PUNCT__ ask the wealthiest american to pai a littl bit more so we could reduc our deficit __PUNCT__ invest in the skill of our peopl __PUNCT__ invest in the idea we need to succe in a new economi __PUNCT__
and at the time __PUNCT__ back in the __PUNCT__ 90 __PUNCT__ the republican congress __PUNCT__ and a senat candid by the name of mitt romnei __PUNCT__ said bill clinton plan would hurt the economi and kill job __PUNCT__
sound familiar __PUNCT__ turn out __PUNCT__ hi math back then wa just as bad as it is now __PUNCT__
becaus by the end of presid clinton second term __PUNCT__ we creat __NUM__ million new job __PUNCT__ incom were up __PUNCT__ poverti wa down __PUNCT__ our deficit becam the biggest surplu in histori __PUNCT__
so __PUNCT__ iowa __PUNCT__ we know our idea work __PUNCT__
we put them to the test __PUNCT__
we also know that their idea don't work __PUNCT__ becaus thei been test also __PUNCT__
in the __NUM__ year befor i came into offic __PUNCT__ we tri what thei sell __PUNCT__
we tri give big tax cut to the wealthiest american __PUNCT__
we tri give insur compani and oil compani and wall street the free licens to do whatev thei pleas __PUNCT__
here what we got __PUNCT__ fall incom __PUNCT__ record deficit __PUNCT__ slowest growth in job in half a centuri __PUNCT__ and an econom crisi we still clean up after __PUNCT__
so we know what work __PUNCT__ we know what doesn't __PUNCT__
now __PUNCT__ governor romnei __PUNCT__ he a veri talent salesman __PUNCT__
and in thi campaign __PUNCT__ he been work overtim to try to repackag the old bad idea that didn't work and try to sell them to you as new idea __PUNCT__
he try to sai that thei chang __PUNCT__
but here the thing __PUNCT__ iowa __PUNCT__ we know what chang look like __PUNCT__ and what he sell is not chang __PUNCT__
give more power to the biggest bank __PUNCT__ that not chang __PUNCT__
anoth __MONEY__ trillion tax cut that favor the wealthi __PUNCT__ not chang __PUNCT__
audienc member __PUNCT__
no __PUNCT__ the presid __PUNCT__
refus to answer question about the detail of your polici until after the elect __PUNCT__ that definit not chang __PUNCT__
politician do that all the time __PUNCT__
rule out compromis __PUNCT__ pledg to rubberstamp the tea parti agenda in congress __PUNCT__ that not chang __PUNCT__
that what we need to chang __PUNCT__
that why i run for a second term __PUNCT__
chang the fact when thei inconveni to your campaign __PUNCT__ that is definit not chang __PUNCT__
so what he sell __PUNCT__ we tri it __PUNCT__ it didn't work __PUNCT__ we not go back __PUNCT__
those ar the attitud in washington we need to chang __PUNCT__
and that rais someth about the choic you have to make __PUNCT__ iowa __PUNCT__
a lot of choos a presid is about trust __PUNCT__
iowa __PUNCT__ i start my presidenti journei right here in thi state __PUNCT__
so after __NUM__ year of campaign and after __NUM__ year as presid __PUNCT__ you know me by now __PUNCT__
you mai not agre with everi decis i made __PUNCT__
you mai have sometim been frustrat at the pace of chang __PUNCT__
but you know __PUNCT__ laughter __PUNCT__ you know that i sai what i mean and i mean what i sai __PUNCT__
you know what i believ __PUNCT__
you know where i stand __PUNCT__
when i said i end the war in iraq __PUNCT__ i end the war in iraq __PUNCT__
when i said i cut tax for middl class famili __PUNCT__ i cut tax for middl class famili __PUNCT__
when i said i pass health care reform so nobodi goe broke when thei get sick __PUNCT__ i pass health care reform so nobodi goe broke when thei get sick __PUNCT__
when i said we end __PUNCT__ don't ask __PUNCT__ don't tell __PUNCT__ i end __PUNCT__ don't ask __PUNCT__ don't tell __PUNCT__
when i said i invest in clean energi __PUNCT__ we doubl clean energi product in thi countri __PUNCT__
when i said we go after bin laden __PUNCT__ we went after bin laden __PUNCT__
you know i tell the truth __PUNCT__
and you know i fight for you and your famili everi singl dai as hard as i know how __PUNCT__
that what you know __PUNCT__
so if thi is a debat about real chang __PUNCT__ i know what chang look like __PUNCT__ becaus i fought for it and i deliv it and i got the scar to prove it __PUNCT__
and you gui have stood with me __PUNCT__
and after all we been through togeth __PUNCT__ we can't give up on it now __PUNCT__
audienc member __PUNCT__
no __PUNCT__ the presid __PUNCT__
so let me paint a vision of chang for the next __NUM__ year __PUNCT__
thi is go to be a countri where everi american ha a shot at a good educ __PUNCT__
and govern can't do it all __PUNCT__ parent have to parent __PUNCT__ teacher have to teach __PUNCT__
but don't tell me more teacher won't help thi economi grow __PUNCT__ becaus i know that great teacher ar what we need in america and what we need in iowa __PUNCT__
don't tell me that student who can't afford colleg should just borrow more monei from their parent __PUNCT__
that wasn't an option for me __PUNCT__ i bet it wasn't an option for a whole lot of you __PUNCT__
that why i want to cut the growth of tuition in half over the next __NUM__ year __PUNCT__
i want to recruit __NUM__ math and scienc teacher so our kid don't fall behind the rest of the world __PUNCT__
i want to train __NUM__ million american at our outstand commun colleg with the skill that busi ar hire for right now __PUNCT__
that what real chang is __PUNCT__
that what we fight for in thi elect __PUNCT__
that what at stake __PUNCT__
chang come when we live up to thi countri legaci of innov __PUNCT__
i could not be prouder that i bet on american worker and american ingenu and on the american auto industri __PUNCT__
and todai __PUNCT__ we not just build car again __PUNCT__ we build better car __PUNCT__ car that in the middl of the next decad will go twice as far on a gallon of ga __PUNCT__
and it not just in the auto industri __PUNCT__
there ar thousand of worker right here in iowa build wind turbin __PUNCT__ all across the countri __PUNCT__ build long __PUNCT__ last batteri __PUNCT__ advanc manufactur __PUNCT__
i don't want a tax code that just subsid oil compani profit when thei make monei hand over fist __PUNCT__ i want to support the energi job of futur __PUNCT__ the new technolog that will creat new job and energi independ __PUNCT__ cut our oil import in half __PUNCT__
i don't want to reward compani for creat job oversea __PUNCT__ i want to reward compani that ar invest right here in dubuqu __PUNCT__ right here in iowa __PUNCT__
that my plan for job __PUNCT__
that my plan for growth __PUNCT__
that the futur i see for thi countri __PUNCT__
chang is turn a page on a decad of war so we can start do some nation __PUNCT__ build here at home __PUNCT__
as long as i command in chief __PUNCT__ we go to pursu our enemi with everyth we got __PUNCT__ with the strongest militari the world ha ever known __PUNCT__
but it time to us the save from end the war in iraq and wind down the war in afghanistan to pai down our debt __PUNCT__ rebuild america __PUNCT__
we could put thousand of folk back to work right now __PUNCT__ rebuild our road __PUNCT__ our bridg __PUNCT__ make sure our school ar state of the art __PUNCT__ hire our veteran __PUNCT__ becaus if you fought for our countri and defend our freedom __PUNCT__ you shouldn't have to fight for a job when you come home __PUNCT__
you shouldn't have to fight for the benefit you earn when you come home __PUNCT__
that my commit to veteran __PUNCT__ but that also my commit to america __PUNCT__
that how we keep ourselv strong __PUNCT__
that what at stake in thi elect __PUNCT__
chang is a futur where we reduc our deficit in a balanc wai __PUNCT__ a respons wai __PUNCT__
now __PUNCT__ i sign a trillion dollar __PUNCT__ worth of cut __PUNCT__ take out program we don't need __PUNCT__ and i want to do more __PUNCT__
but if we seriou about reduc our deficit __PUNCT__ not just us it for a talk point dure elect __PUNCT__ if we seriou about it __PUNCT__ then we also got to ask the wealthiest american to go back to the rate thei paid under bill clinton __PUNCT__
becaus budget ar about choic __PUNCT__ and if we go to cut back __PUNCT__ let make sure that we not cut back on thing that ar go to help us grow in the futur __PUNCT__
and let make sure everybodi is share in the sacrific __PUNCT__
i not go to turn medicar into a voucher just to pai for anoth millionair tax cut __PUNCT__
i not go to sacrific invest in basic research to pai for a tax cut for me and certainli not for mr __PUNCT__ romnei __PUNCT__
audienc member __PUNCT__
no __PUNCT__ the presid __PUNCT__
we don't need it __PUNCT__
but america need those invest to make sure we grow __PUNCT__
so that the chang that we need __PUNCT__
we know what chang is __PUNCT__ iowa __PUNCT__
we know what the futur requir __PUNCT__
and we also know it not go to be easi __PUNCT__
back in __NUM__ __PUNCT__ some of you rememb __PUNCT__ becaus i wa campaign here __PUNCT__ i said we need chang we believ in __PUNCT__
i wasn't just talk about chang presid or chang parti __PUNCT__ i wa talk about chang how our polit work __PUNCT__
i ran becaus the voic of the american peopl __PUNCT__ your voic __PUNCT__ had been shut out too long __PUNCT__ by the lobbyist and special interest __PUNCT__ the politician who will do whatev it take to keep thing just the wai thei ar __PUNCT__ the protector of the statu quo __PUNCT__
and over the last __NUM__ year __PUNCT__ the statu quo in washington __PUNCT__ thei have fought us everi step of the wai __PUNCT__
thei tri to __PUNCT__ thei spent million of dollar try to prevent us from reform our health care system __PUNCT__ million of dollar try to prevent us from end taxpay __PUNCT__ fund bailout on wall street __PUNCT__ million of dollar try to prevent us from protect consum __PUNCT__
thei engin a strategi of gridlock in congress __PUNCT__ refus to compromis on idea that in the past democrat and republican had support __PUNCT__ suddenli __PUNCT__ republican didn't support them anymor __PUNCT__ includ __PUNCT__ by the wai __PUNCT__ the health care bill that my oppon design in massachusett __PUNCT__
__PUNCT__ laughter __PUNCT__ and what thei count on now is that you be so worn down by all the squabbl in washington __PUNCT__ so tire of all the dysfunct __PUNCT__ audienc member __PUNCT__
no wai __PUNCT__ the presid __PUNCT__
__PUNCT__ that you just go to give up __PUNCT__ walk awai __PUNCT__ and leav them in power __PUNCT__
audienc member __PUNCT__
no __PUNCT__ the presid __PUNCT__
thei bet on cynic __PUNCT__
but __PUNCT__ iowa __PUNCT__ my bet is on you __PUNCT__
my bet is on the decenc and the good and the resolv of the american peopl __PUNCT__
and the fight we fight __PUNCT__ thei not partisan __PUNCT__
when the other parti ha been will to work with me to help middl class famili __PUNCT__ to help folk have ladder of opportun __PUNCT__ like when we cut tax for middl class famili and small busi __PUNCT__ and when we came togeth to repeal __PUNCT__ don't ask __PUNCT__ don't tell __PUNCT__ i embrac them __PUNCT__
i want to work togeth __PUNCT__
i believ we all american first __PUNCT__ not democrat or republican first __PUNCT__
as long as i presid __PUNCT__ i will work with anybodi of ani parti to move thi countri forward __PUNCT__
and if you want to break the gridlock in congress __PUNCT__ you vote for leader who feel the same wai __PUNCT__ whether thei democrat __PUNCT__ republican __PUNCT__ or independ __PUNCT__ folk who put peopl first __PUNCT__ not the next elect first __PUNCT__
but __PUNCT__ iowa __PUNCT__ look __PUNCT__ i go to confess to you __PUNCT__ there ar time where we need to fight __PUNCT__
if the price of peac in washington is just cut deal that will kick student off of financi aid or get rid of fund for plan parenthood or let insur compani discrimin against peopl with preexist condit or elimin health care for million on medicaid who ar poor or elderli or disabl __PUNCT__ that price is too high __PUNCT__
that not a price i will to pai __PUNCT__
that not bipartisanship __PUNCT__
that not real chang __PUNCT__
that surrend to the same statu quo that ha hurt middl class famili for wai too long __PUNCT__
and i don't know about you __PUNCT__ but i not readi to give up on that fight __PUNCT__
i mai be full of grai hair now __PUNCT__ but i just as determin as i wa __NUM__ year ago __PUNCT__
i not tire __PUNCT__ and i not weari __PUNCT__
and __PUNCT__ iowa __PUNCT__ i hope you ar not either __PUNCT__
see __PUNCT__ the folk at the veri top in thi countri __PUNCT__ thei don't need a champion in washington __PUNCT__
thei alwai have a seat at the tabl __PUNCT__
thei alwai have access __PUNCT__
thei alwai have influenc __PUNCT__
that the wai thing ar __PUNCT__
the peopl who need a champion ar the american whose letter i read late at night after i done with my work in the offic __PUNCT__ the men and women i meet on the campaign trail everi dai __PUNCT__ the folk i met that first summer when i wa travel around iowa and nobodi could pronounc my name __PUNCT__
__PUNCT__ laughter __PUNCT__ the laid __PUNCT__ off furnitur worker who suddenli ha to retrain at the ag of __NUM__ for a new career __PUNCT__ try to figur out how to pai for commun colleg __PUNCT__ she need a champion __PUNCT__
the restaur owner who got some great food __PUNCT__ but need a loan to expand __PUNCT__ and the bank turn him down __PUNCT__ he need a champion __PUNCT__
the cook and the waiter and the clean staff at a hotel __PUNCT__ try to save enough to bui a first home or send their kid to colleg __PUNCT__ thei need a champion __PUNCT__
the autowork who never thought he be back on the job __PUNCT__ but then suddenli __PUNCT__ thing start pick up __PUNCT__ and he got recal __PUNCT__ and now he back on the line build a great car and full of pride and digniti becaus that job is not just about a paycheck __PUNCT__ that about know that you contribut to someth that import __PUNCT__ that you help the economi grow __PUNCT__ that you build your commun __PUNCT__ he need a champion __PUNCT__
all the firefight and polic offic and first __PUNCT__ respond who sacrific so much to help their commun __PUNCT__ thei need a champion __PUNCT__
and that teacher who in an overcrowd classroom __PUNCT__ outdat schoolbook __PUNCT__ have to dig into her own pocket to bui school suppli __PUNCT__ sometim just feel discourag __PUNCT__ but then know that everi dai there might be just that on kid that she touch that dai __PUNCT__ she need a champion __PUNCT__
all those kid in inner citi and small farm town __PUNCT__ the roll hill of virginia __PUNCT__ the vallei of ohio __PUNCT__ right here in dubuqu __PUNCT__ kid dream of becom scientist or doctor or engin or entrepreneur __PUNCT__ follow the famili tradit of farm the land __PUNCT__ mayb becom a diplomat __PUNCT__ mayb becom a presid __PUNCT__ start a busi __PUNCT__ thei need champion in washington __PUNCT__ becaus thei don't have lobbyist __PUNCT__
the futur will never have as mani lobbyist as the protector of the statu quo __PUNCT__ but it the dream of those children that ar our save grace __PUNCT__
thei the on who will carri forward the vision of america that make us so special __PUNCT__
and that why i need you __PUNCT__ iowa __PUNCT__ to make sure their voic ar heard __PUNCT__ to make sure your voic ar heard __PUNCT__
we come too far to turn back now __PUNCT__
we come too far to let our heart grow weari __PUNCT__
now is the time for us to keep push forward __PUNCT__ to educ all our kid __PUNCT__ to train all our worker __PUNCT__ to creat new job __PUNCT__ to rebuild our infrastructur __PUNCT__ to discov new sourc of energi __PUNCT__ to broaden opportun __PUNCT__ to grow our middl class __PUNCT__ to restor our democraci __PUNCT__ to make sure that in thi countri __PUNCT__ it doesn't matter where you come from or how you start or what you look like or what your last name is __PUNCT__ what race you ar __PUNCT__ what faith you ar __PUNCT__ it doesn't matter __PUNCT__ you can make it if you try in america __PUNCT__
that why i ask for your vote __PUNCT__
and if you will to work with me __PUNCT__ if you will to keep on knock on some door with me __PUNCT__ make some phone call with me __PUNCT__ turn out to vote for me __PUNCT__ we win iowa __PUNCT__
we win thi elect __PUNCT__
we renew the bond and reaffirm the spirit that make the unit state the greatest nation on earth __PUNCT__
god bless you __PUNCT__ and god bless the unit state of america __PUNCT__
