A MESSAGE FROM BARACk:
Thank you for taking a look at this booklet.
I believe it's critically important that those of
us who want to lead this nation be open, candid,
and clear with the American people about how
we will move forward. So I hope this booklet
gives you a good sense about where I stand on
the fundamental issues facing our country.
But I also hope that this booklet sparks a dialogue and that after you've finished reading it, you get in touch
with our campaign and give us your thoughts on the policies you find here. It's time to put government back
in your hands, where it belongs. If we want to have policies that are good for the American people, then we
need the American people to help shape those policies.
We all know what's at stake. This is a defining moment in our history. Our nation is at war. The planet is in
peril. The dream that so many generations fought for feels as if it's slowly slipping away. We've never paid
more for health care or for college. It's harder to save and retire. And most of all, we've lost faith that our
leaders can or will do anything about it.
But it is because of their failures that this moment of challenge is also a moment of opportunity. We have
a chance to bring the country together in a new majority - to finally tackle problems that Washington has
ignored for too long. And that is why the same old Washington textbook campaigns just won't do in this
election.
The Democratic Party has always made the biggest difference in the lives of the American people when
we've led not by polls, but by principle; not by calculation, but by conviction; when we summoned the entire
nation to a common purpose - a higher purpose. And I run for the presidency because that's the party
America needs us to be right now. I run to offer this country change that we can believe in.
I am in this race to tell the corporate lobbyists that their days of setting the agenda in Washington are over.