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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsObama to use convention speech to pitch prospect of new New Deal
President plans ambitious moves to halt US decline, saying country must choose between 'fundamentally different visions'
Barack Obama is to make a pitch for a second four years in the White House on Thursday night, holding out the prospect of a bold, ambitious and experimental programme to halt American decline on a scale comparable to Franklin Roosevelt's 1930s New Deal.
Obama, at the end of the Democratic convention in Charlotte, North Carolina, is to say the choice on 6 November will be the most important facing Americans for generations, between his own big government approach and the corporate-dominated, small government approach of Republican opponent Mitt Romney.
"When all is said and done when you pick up that ballot to vote you will face the clearest choice of any time in a generation," he said in excerpts released in advance of his speech.
"Over the next few years, big decisions will be made in Washington, on jobs and the economy; taxes and deficits; energy and education; war and peace decisions that will have a huge impact on our lives and our children's lives for decades to come."
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/sep/07/barack-obama-convention-speech-deal?newsfeed=true
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Obama to use convention speech to pitch prospect of new New Deal (Original Post)
cali
Sep 2012
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gkhouston
(21,642 posts)2. Exactly the right note.
Jackpine Radical
(45,274 posts)3. OMG, can it be??!
This is what I had hoped for in that brief period of (sorta) Democratic dominance in Washington nearly 4 years ago.
Whooooooooh!