| You should be with us in 2012, join now: my.barackobama.com We've accomplished so much since Election Day 2008, but let's make sure we finish the job together in 2012. Election Day 2012 is exactly one year from this week. That's why we're not waiting to build this campaign. Watch the video, then commit to volunteer and say you'll be with us in 2012. Click here to commit to volunteer: my.barackobama.com Since Election Day 2008, we've: • Saved over one million jobs in the US auto industry • 20 consecutive months of job creation • Took the fight to Al-Qaeda • Reduced and secured nuclear weapons • Passed health reform, lowering costs and insuring 32 million • Ended "Don't Ask, Don't Tell": • Nominated first Latina to Supreme Court • Doubled college grants, now for 9 million students • New Protections against credit card companies • New 54.5 MPG fuel standards, saving $8200 per family • Reined in Wall Street --ended taxpayer bailouts • Ending the war in Iraq Excerpts from Barack Obama's 2008 Presidential Election Night acceptance speech: "I will never forget who this victory truly belongs to -- it belongs to you. It belongs to you. I was never the likeliest candidate for this office. We didn't start with much money or many endorsements. Our campaign was not hatched in the halls of Washington -- it began in the backyards of Des Moines and the living rooms of Concord and the front porches of Charleston. It grew strength from the young people who rejected the myth of their ... |
