【正文】 reason why over the last three and a half years, even as we39。ve managed crisis, even as we39。ve ended a war and are in the process of ending another one, even as we went after al Qaeda and have decimated the ranks of their leadership, even as we got the auto industry back to a place where it can now pete internationally, and we unlocked the financial system so that businesses and families could get financing againeven as we did all those things, we kept our eye on the basic promise of our 2008 39。s why we worked on health care reformnot because it was popular, but because it was as a consequence, 30 million people will have health insurance that didn’t have it before.(Applause.)That39。s why we did Wall Street reformnot because it was easy or popular, but because it was right, because we can39。t have a system in which the recklessness of a few can can bring down an entire 39。s why we have taken on education, sometimes offending folks in our own party because the status quo of some munities where half the kids are dropping out and only one out of ten are reading at grade levelwe can39。t pete doing 39。s why we39。ve doubled clean 39。s why we doubled fuel efficiency standards on 39。s why we39。ve invested in science and 39。s why projects all across the country have been built putting construction workers back to of this has been in pursuit of the goal that we originally talked about in 2008, and that was creating an America where everybody had a shot。where we create a platform where if you are willing to work hard, you can make that requires us to do things we39。re not 39。ve got a lot more as we look forward towards this next campaign, the choice between the path that I39。ve set for this country and that of my opponent could not be starker, and the stakes couldn39。t be I won39。t run through the differences in all the it es down to is they have a different vision about how America , I think we work best when we39。re all in it together, when we39。ve all got a stake in each other.(Applause.)And I39。ve said this beforeI believe thatMalia and Sasha are the most magical girls in the don39。t worry about I think their lives will be better if every child in America has opportunity and a good education and can go to college without worrying about being loaded up with tens of thousands of dollars worth of will be a stronger America for Michelle and Ipeople have mented on the fact that I39。ve got gray hair was a blog post about look how wrinkly Obama is getting.(Laughter.)It was sort of distressing.(Laughter.)George doesn’t have to go through these things.(Laughter.): Look at me!THE PRESIDENT: I like that in you, brother.(Laughter.)But Michelle and I will be okay after this is all our lives are better if, when I39。m walking down the street and I see some elderly couple holding hands and they39。re walking through a park, I know, you know what, they39。ve got Medicare that they can count on, and they39。ve got Social Security that they can count 39。re going to be able to pay the bills and enjoy their remind people when folks talk about the free market, you won39。t find a bigger advocate for the free market than me, but I also understand the free market works when we39。ve got rules so that folks who are engaging in fair dealing and providing good products and good customer service, that they39。re not being undercut by folks who are cutting corners and cheating and bilking I39。m remindedI just came from SeattleI told a roomful of folks, some of whom work for Microsoft, Bill Gates is a genius, Steve Jobs is a genius, Mark Zuckerberg, amazing what they39。ve the Internet doesn’t exist unless all of us together make an investment in something called DARPA that helped develop the was a mon enterprise that created this platform for successfor other side has got a different attitude is you39。re on your you39。re a kid born in a poor neighborhood in LA, tough luck, you39。re on your you39。re a senior citizen who, because of bad luck, got laid off, or the pany ended up dissolving without your pension being vested, tough didn’t plan well 39。s not the America I believe 39。s not the America you believe obviously yesterday we made some news, but(applause)but the truth is it was a logical extension of what America is supposed to grew directly out of this difference in visions: Are we a country that includes everybody and gives everybody a shot and treats everybody fairly, and is that going to make us stronger? Are we weling to immigrants? Are we weling to people who aren’t like us? Does that make us stronger? I believe it so that39。s what39。s at , I will just close by saying that this is going to be harder than it was the last is going to be harder than it was the last timenot only because I39。m older and grayer and your “Hope” posters are dogeared(laughter)2008 in some ways was lightening in a 39。s not going to be we shouldn’t expect it toI39。ve been President for three and a half part of the reason it39。s going to be harder is because folks are still hurting out there and those frustrations with Washington and the nonsense they see on the news is making them more cynical than they were in we39。re going to have to fight against cynicism and a belief that maybethings can39。t happen and maybe the game is rigged, what39。s the 39。s what we39。re going to be fighting against this that means we39。re going to have to work means we39。re going to have to be more means that that passion that we brought to bear in 2008 is going to have to express itself maybe not in such flashy form, it39。s going to have to be steady, but we39。re going to have to keep those fires burning all the way through November and I39。m not interested in just winning the election。I39。m also interested in making sure that we can finish what we started in 39。ve still got a lot of work to do.(Applause.)So bottom line is I still believe in the American people, and I still believe in I hope you still believe in me.(Applause.)Because I39。m as deter