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SEPTEMBER 24, 2008

Obama: Put me in, coach

Barack Obama to the roaring crowd in Dunedin:

"I am running for president because we simply cannot afford four more years of an economic philosophy that works for Wall Street instead of Main Street, and ends up devastating both. 

"I don’t want to wake up in four years to find that more Americans have losts their jobs, more Americans have fallen out of the middle-class, that more Americans have lost their homes, and more families lost their savings. I don’t want to see that our country failed to invest in our ability to compete, our children’s future was mortgaged on another mountain of debt, and our financial markets failed to find a firmer footing. 

"At this defining moment, we have the chance to finally stand up and say: enough is enough!"

And Buzz notes a new song has replaced Stevie Wonder's Signed, Sealed, Delivered as the first song after his speech. Now John Fogerty caps it off before Stevie: "Oh, put me in, coach -- I'm ready to play today; Put me in, coach -- I'm ready to play today; Look at me, I can be centerfield."

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