Barack Obama

What happened in the financial markets was the final verdict on eight years of failed policies. And we're now going through the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression.

Lately, he's called me a socialist for wanting to roll back the Bush tax cuts for the wealthiest Americans so we can finally give tax relief to the middle class. I don't know what's next. By the end of the week he'll be accusing me of…

He doesn't have a plan.

But when it comes to the economy, when it comes to the central issue of this election, the plain truth is John McCain has stood with this president every step of the way.

Since George Bush has been in office the average family income has gone down $2,000 which means that it's getting harder and harder to make the mortgage or fill up the gas tank or even keep the electricity on.

We are in the middle of the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression; 760,000 workers have lost their job since the beginning of this year.

In six days, we can choose an economy that rewards work and creates jobs and fuels prosperity, starting with the middle class.

We don't need another president who fights for Washington lobbyists and Wall Street.

America, the time for change has come.

We've seen over the last eight years how decisions by a president can have a profound effect on the course of history and on American lives. But much that's wrong in our country goes back even farther than that.

He voted for the Bush tax cuts for the wealthy that he once opposed.

The last thing we need is four more years of no regulation on Wall Street and the financial sectors because politicians and lobbyists kill common sense regulation.

In six days you can choose policies that invest in our middle class and create new jobs and grow this economy from the bottom up.

It's time for the kind of peace and prosperity that we saw in the 1990s.

In six days we can come together as one nation and one people and once more choose our better history. That's what's at stake.

We still have the most talented, most productive workers of any country on Earth.

That's what's been lost these last eight years - our sense of common purpose; of higher purpose.

That is the choice we face right now.

We don't have to choose between allowing our financial system to collapse and spending billions of taxpayer dollars to bail out Wall Street banks.

We are six days away from change in America.

North Carolina, I've got two words for you: six days.

Hope! That's what kept some of our parents and grandparents going when times were tough.

The choice in this election isn't between tax cuts and no tax cuts.

Six days, you can put an end to the politics that would divide a nation just to win an election.

The last thing we can afford is four more years of the tired, old theory that says we should give more to billionaires and big corporations and hope that prosperity trickles down to everyone else.