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Well, you know, I admire so much Senator Obama's eloquence.

Now, on the subject of free trade agreements.

But let me give you another example of a free trade agreement that Senator Obama opposes.

So Senator Obama, who has never traveled south of our border, opposes the Colombia Free Trade Agreement.

Look, as I travel around the country, this is the issue that will break your heart over and over again.

Just yesterday, I was in Toledo shaking some hands in a line.

The only thing we're going to try to do is lower costs so that those cost savings are passed onto you.

We've got to put more money into preventive care.

And I am convinced we need to do a lot of things.

We need to put health care records online.

The rise of obesity amongst young Americans is one of the most alarming statistics that there is.

We should have physical fitness programs and nutrition programs in schools.

Now, Senator Obama, I'd like -- still like to know what that fine is going to be, and I don't think that Joe right now wants to pay a fine when he is seeing such difficult times in America's economy.

So here's what we do.

For the first time in history, you will be taxing people's health care benefits.

By the way, the average policy costs about $12,000.

The average cost of a health care insurance plan in America today is $5,800.

I'm going to give them $5,000 to take with them wherever they want to go, and this will give them affordability.

This will give them availability.

This really gets down to the fundamental difference in our philosophies.

I want, Joe, you to do the job.

I want to leave money in your pocket.

That's what I'm all about.

And don't take my word for it.

All I want to do, if you've already got health care, is lower your costs.

That's not appropriate to do.

I think that decisions should rest in the hands of the states.

Not because I agreed with their ideology, but because I thought they were qualified and that elections have consequences when presidents are nominated.

This is a very important issue we're talking about.

Senator Obama voted against Justice Breyer and Justice Roberts on the grounds that they didn't meet his ideological standards.

And so that's what I will do.

I would consider anyone in their qualifications.

And it is true that this is going to be, I think, one of the most consequential decisions of the next president.

Now I would not provide a litmus test.

I think that abortion is a very difficult issue and it is a moral issue and one that I think good people on both sides can disagree on.

We have to change the culture of America.

Those of us who are proudly pro-life understand that.

And it's got to be courage and compassion that we show to a young woman who's facing this terribly difficult decision.

Senator Obama, as a member of the Illinois State Senate, voted in the Judiciary Committee against a law that would provide immediate medical attention to a child born of a failed abortion.

Then there was another bill before the Senate Judiciary Committee in the state of Illinois not that long ago, where he voted against a ban on partial-birth abortion, one of the late-term abortion, a really -- one of the bad procedures, a terrible.

Yes, let me respond to this.

We should try to reduce these circumstances.

Just again, the example of the eloquence of Senator Obama.

If we do those things, then I believe that we can create a better school system.

Parents are going to have to show more responsibility.

Now, throwing money at the problem is not the answer.

So I believe that we need to reward these good teachers.

Look, we must improve education in this country.

As far as college education is concerned, we need to make those student loans available.

I think it's important to foster competition inside the public schools.

And we need to fix a lot of the problems.

I think the Head Start program is a great program.

We need to have transparency.

And we'll care for these young children.

I'll just make a quick comment about vouchers in D.C.

And that's why the biggest risk we could take right now is to adopt the same failed policies and the same failed politics that we've seen over the last eight years and somehow expect a different result.

In businesses that can create the new energy economy of the future.

And these are the policies I want to bring to the White House.

But it's not going to be easy.

I'm absolutely convinced we can do it.

Well, first of all, Bob, thank you for moderating tonight.

Freedom is on the march.

We're going to make it affordable and accessible.

I'm going to stand up and fight for the American worker.

When they tried to reduce taxes, he voted against that 127 times.

I've had shop stewards stand up and say, "Will you promise me you're going to stop all this outsourcing?

I don't want American workers subsidizing the loss of their own job.

And we're going to have a manufacturing jobs credit and a job hiring credit so we actually help people be able to hire here.

I believe the role of government is to stand side by side with our citizens to help them realize their dreams, not tell citizens how to live their lives.

When they voted -- when they proposed reducing taxes, you voted against it 126 times.

He voted to violate the budget cap 277 times.

You know, Bob, I don't know.

But I also believe that because we are the United States of America, we're a country with a great, unbelievable Constitution, with rights that we afford people, that you can't discriminate in the workplace.

It's between a woman, God and her doctor.

I was an altar boy.

Result: $139 billion windfall profit to the drug companies coming out of your pockets.

I've actually passed 56 individual bills that I've personally written and, in addition to that, and not always under my name, there is amendments on certain bills.

But more importantly, with respect to the question of no record, I helped write -- I did write, I was one of the original authors of the early childhood health care and the expansion of health care that we did in the middle of the 1990s.

And I'm very proud of that.

But I got a better plan.

If it's good enough for us, it's good enough for every American.

Now, what happens is when you begin to get people covered like that -- for instance in diabetes, if you diagnose diabetes early, you could save $50 billion in the health care system of America by avoiding surgery and dialysis.

Americans ought to have it too.

There is a problem for our youngsters, a real problem.

The fact is that the president is driving the largest deficits in American history.

And that's what we're going to do.

We're going to protect Social Security.

And this is the first president in 72 years to preside over an economy in America that has lost jobs, 1.6 million jobs.

I have a plan to put America back to work.

Twenty percent of the upper-income people pay about 80 percent of the taxes in America today because of how we structured the tax cuts.

But the way to make sure our economy grows is not to raise taxes on small-business owners.

We've got 1,000 more Border Patrol agents on the southern border.

And so in order to take pressure off the borders, in order to make the borders more secure, I believe there ought to be a temporary worker card that allows a willing worker and a willing employer to mate up, so long as there's not an American willing to do that job, to join up in order to be able to fulfill the employers' needs.

I don't think we ought to reward illegal behavior.

The fact is, we haven't done what we need to do to toughen up our borders, and I will.

Well, I'm glad you raised that question.

One percent of America got $89 billion last year in a tax cut, but people working hard, playing by the rules, trying to take care of their kids, family values, that we're supposed to value so much in America -- I'm tired of politicians who talk about family values and don't value families.

What we need to do is raise the minimum wage.

We also need to hold on to equal pay.

That's not right in America.