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Obama for America | By David Axelrod on June 14, 2012

“This is a make-or-break moment for middle-class Americans—and anyone who cares needs to watch the speech President Obama made in Cleveland today.

In this election, we face a choice between two fundamentally different visions of how to grow the economy. The path Mitt Romney and his Republican allies want to take us down is exactly the one that led us to the 2008 crisis. We have to reject those policies and embrace the President’s vision of growing the economy, not from the top down, but from the middle class out.

Hear from President Obama in his own words, and sign on to the principles he laid out.

The choice couldn’t be clearer on the issues most important to ordinary Americans:

• Better Education: We need to invest in good teachers and help more students go to college and get job training—not pack kids into classrooms and slash scholarships.

• More, Cleaner Energy: We need to invest in promising new sources of energy to create a market for innovation and good jobs of the future—not go back to relying on foreign oil.

• Leading Through Innovation: We need to invest in our best scientists, researchers, and entrepreneurs so they innovate here—not cede new ideas to countries like China and India.

• Job-Creating Infrastructure: We need roads, bridges, ports, and broadband technology that attract businesses that will create jobs here—not more pet projects and bridges to nowhere.

• Fair, Simple Tax Reform: We need to reward businesses that create jobs here instead of rewarding outsourcing, and must ask the wealthiest to pay their fair share again—not sacrifice investments critical to the middle class.

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