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Our country is being tested as never before. And it?s going to take the skill, the talent, and the will of all of the American people to get this right.

As I travel the country people always ask me: Governor, what don?t you like about the President? And I?ve got to say, it?s not something he?s done. It?s something he hasn?t done. He has never really asked Americans to step up?for any shared sacrifice?to actually be part of the solution.

After 9/11, I ? and you ? and all Americans would have done anything to stand up for our country. But the President never asked.

After our troops were in harms way in Iraq, I think I ? and you ? and all Americans would have been ready to take a new approach to energy that makes us less dependent on the Persian Gulf. But the President never asked.

After Katrina, all of us wanted to do something, anything, to make sure that no Americans have to die in the streets because government can?t deliver basic services or maintain a 21st century infrastructure. But the President never asked.

Instead, we got the politics of division. Of Red and Blue America. Of leadership that stokes the fires of the past while failing to put forward a vision of the future.

The American people were willing to step up?and they still are. They?re ready to answer that call. They understand that we are living at a time of transformative change?.of harrowing threats and historic opportunity.

It's time for a different kind of politics, a different kind of policy, a different kind of leadership in this country.

But it?s not going to be easy. We?re not going to get it done by simply having Congress pass a law. It?s time to see a little farther down the road. Because it?s not an American birthright that we?re going to continue living in the most successful and prosperous country in the world.

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It is time to issue that call to bring Americans together?to build a new American leadership in the world? and to bring that boundless sense of innovation and opportunity to all Americans.

Let?s get to work. Thank you all very much.

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