【正文】 osevelt and Kennedy； and that we are at our best when we lead with principle； when we lead with conviction； when we summon an entire nation around a mon purpose a higher fall，we intend to march forward as one Democratic Party，united by a mon vision for this we all agree that at this defining moment in history, a moment when we re facing two wars，an economy in turmoil，a planet in peril,a dream that feels like it39。s slipping away for too many Americans, we can t afford to give John McCain the chance to serve out George Bush39。s third need change in that39。s why we39。ll be nuited in woman I met in Indiana who had just lost her job，lost her pension，lost her insurance, when the plant where she worked at her entire life closed down, she can t afford four more years of tax breaks for corporations like the one that shipped her job needs us to give tax breaks to panies that create good jobs here in can t afford four more years of tax breaks for CEOs like the one who walked away from her pany with a multimilliondollar needs middleclass tax relief of the sort I39。ve proposed,relief that will help her pay the skyrocketing price of groceries，and gas，and college 39。s why I39。m running for college student I met in Iowa who works the night shift after a full day of class ,still can39。t pay the medical bills for a sister who s ill, she can t afford four more years of a health care plan that only takes care of the healthy and the wealthy, that allows insurance panies to discriminate and deny coverage to those Americans who need it needs us to stand up to those insurance panies and pass a plan that lowers every family s premiums and gives every uninsured American the same kind of coverage that Members of Congress give s why I m running for mother in Wisconsin who gave me a bracelet inscribed with the name of the son she lost in Iraq, the families who pray for their loved ones to e home； the heroes on their third and fourth and fifth tour of duty they can t afford four more years of a war that should ve never been authorized and never been can t afford four more years of our veterans returning to brokendown barracks and substandard they don39。t want to see homeless veterans on the streets,they don39。t want to see veterans waiting years to get disability payments or having to travel for hours and miles just to get need us to end the war that isn t making us need us to treat them with the care and respect they s why I m running for man I met in Pennsylvania who lost his job but can t even afford the gas to drive around and look for a new one, he can t afford four more years of an energy policy written by the oil panies and for the oil panies； a policy that s not only keeping gas at record prices，but funding both sides of the war on terror and destroying our doesn t need four more years of Washington policies that sound good，but don t solve the needs us to take a permanent holiday from our oil addiction by making the automakers raise their fuel standards，corporations pay for their pollution，and oil panies invest their record profits in a clean energy s the change we that s why I m running for people that I39。ve met in small towns and big cities across this country understand that government can t solve all our problems ,and we don t expect it believe in hard believe in personal responsibility and we also believe that we have a larger responsibility to one another as Americans, that America is a place, that America is the place where you can make it if you try,that no matter how much money you start with or where you e from or who your parents are，opportunity is yours if you re willing to reach for it and work for s the idea that, while there are few guarantees in life，you should be able to count on a job that pays the bills； health care for when you need it； a pension for when you retire； an education for your children that will allow them to fulfill their Godgiven s the America we believe s the America we is the country that gave my grandfather a chance to go to college on the GI Bill when he came home from World War II； a country that gave him and my grandmother the chance to buy their first home with a loan from the is the country that made it possible for my mother, a single parent who had to go on food stamps at one point, to send my sister and me to the best schools in the country on is the country that allowed my fatherinlaw,a shift worker, a city worker at a water filtration plant in Chicago, to provide for his wife and two children on a single this is a man who was diagnosed at age thirty with multiple sclerosis, who relied on a walker to get himself to work, and yet，every day he went，and he labored，and he sent my wife and her brother to one of the best colleges in the when he talked ahout his job,he expressed that it was important not just because it gave him a paycheck，but because it described his dignity,his selfworth,his was an America that didn t just reward wealth，but it rewarded work and the workers who created 39。s the America I 39。s the America you 39。s the America that we39。re fighting for in this along the line，between all the bickering and the influencepeddling and the gameplaying of the last few decades，Washington and Wall Street have lost touch with these core values,these American while I honor John McCain39。s service to his country，his ideas for America are out of touch with these core plans for the future,of continuing a war that has not made us safer,of continuing George Bush39。s economic policies that he claims have made great progress,these are nothing more than the failed policies of the his plan to win in November appears to e from the very same playbook that his side has used time after time in election after ，we know what39。s 39。m not ve seen it already,the same names and labels they always pin on everyone who doesn t agree with all their ideas,the same efforts to distract us from the issues that affect our lives, by pouncing on every gaffe and as