President Carter: Obama will lead America to a better future

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Fellow Democrats good evening.

-- until.

I -- -- your nomination as president of the United States.

I said then that America needed a president who shares your dreams and takes a strength and wisdom from you the American people.

There's -- gentlemen both now I have for the next four years we have just such a leader in the White House.

So then you realize quickly in the Oval Office is -- -- easy decisions another ones that make their way Q against.

-- they issued a war and peace of grave economic matters.

-- they're popular or unpopular.

Only a president can make those most difficult choices.

In those moments it takes more than a -- policy.

It takes integrity.

And an understanding of five and whom you serve.

From pres Obama's first day in office I watched him as an all you have.

They -- is tough decisions.

And always Padilla is a middle class Americans of all those -- Auburn with a larger wallets haven't have a lot of reports.

I've admired him for that.

Because pres Obama sits behind a desk everyday people from plains Georgia to Pittsburgh have someone who's on their side.

Thinking about them working to give them an equal chance in life.

It just four short years -- -- to avert economic calamity.

Broader dignified entity ill conceived war in Iraq.

Has signed into law historic Health Care Reform.

The dream that was already decades overdue but not call for it at this convention 36 years ago.

And he has done it all in the face of bitter unyielding in fact unprecedented.

Partisan opposition.

Overseas but Obama has restore the reputation of the United States within the world community.

Dialogue and collaboration -- once again possible with return of a spirit of trust and goodwill to -- foreign policy.

Of course there remains much to do.

-- communities across America and coaches around the world life is too hard for too many people.

We say there are struggles and our hearts go out to them in the coming years -- hands let's continue to reach out to them.

Yet for all that remains to be done at home and abroad.

The evidence is overwhelming.

President Obama.

Is a -- of -- America has replaced onslaught of some of the most complicated the best they can international challenges.

To confront any US president in modern times.

It's up to all of us to make sure that the American people understand exactly what is his state and at risk in this election.

If President Obama in the Oval Office we can make good progress toward becoming a -- -- more prosperous and inclusive America.

A nation adjusted to changing and challenging times.

I'll hold it through to unchanging principles.

A leader among the community of nations.

Next month god willing Allen into the -- here in my life.

And one month later -- well in real voting Booth and our hometown of plains -- cast another vote.

For Barack Obama and Joseph Biden.

We will do so with a confidence and conviction.

That they understand the challenges and difficult choices that face our nation and people.

Inspect all peoples of the world in the years ahead.

One thing I have learned over my lifetime.

As a submarine offers them as president and his leader of the Carter Center.

Is that the biggest challenges and problems that we face.

-- -- -- too quick fixes go to the stuffy rhetoric of a television commercial.

Solutions are complex and difficult -- -- to judgment skill and patience to pursue the right policies for the right reasons.

There's a clear choice facing voters this November.

And I'm confident that when the thanks and -- have been exempt.

When the reckon it performances have been reviewed.

Barack Obama and Joseph Biden but once again be elected to lead our beloved country to a better future.

Thank you.

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President Carter: Obama will lead America to a better future

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