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LEADERSHIP SECRETS OF HILLARY CLINTON

with cancer while raising her kids? Were you in it for that
boy and his mom surviving on the minimum wage? Were
you in it for all the people in this country who feel invisible?
We need leaders once again who can tap into that spe-
cial blend of American confidence and optimism that has
enabled generations before us to meet our toughest chal-
lenges. Leaders who can help us show ourselves and the
world that with our ingenuity, creativity, and innovative
spirit, there are no limits to what is possible in America.
This won’t be easy. Progress never is. But it will be
impossible if we don’t fight to put a Democrat in the
White House.
We need to elect Barack Obama because we need a
president who understands that America can’t compete in a
global economy by padding the pockets of energy specula-
tors, while ignoring the workers whose jobs have been
shipped overseas. We need a president who understands
that we can’t solve the problems of global warming by giv-
ing windfall profits to the oil companies while ignoring
opportunities to invest in new technologies that will build
a green economy.
We need a president who understands that the genius of
America has always depended on the strength and vitality
of the middle class.
Barack Obama began his career fighting for workers
displaced by the global economy. He built his campaign
on a fundamental belief that change in this country must

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