This morning, we learned that GDP has fallen for the first time this year, which means America is producing less and selling less and our economy is shrinking.

We are five days away from change in America.

The central question in this election is this: what will our next President do to take us in a different direction?

In five days, we can choose hope over fear, unity over division, the promise of change over the power of the status quo.

America, the time for change has come.

American consumers were especially hard hit, experiencing their largest decline in spending in 28 years as wages failed to keep up with the rising cost of living.

It's time for something new.

This election is about hope - that thing inside us that insists, despite all evidence to the contrary, that there are better days ahead.

The decline in our GDP didn't happen by accident - it is a direct result of the Bush Administration's trickle down, Wall Street first, Main Street last policies that John McCain has embraced for the last eight years and plans to continue…

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.