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Barack Obama Video: Taking Our Government Back |
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Contributed by J. R. Ransom
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 Barack Obama Video (5min 48sec) of Barack Obama speech on Taking Our Government Back, in Manchester, NH on June 22, 2007. "We cannot settle for a second 'gilded age' in America and yet we find ourselves once more in the middle of a new economy, where more wealth is in danger of falling into fewer hands, where the average CEO earns more in one day than an average worker earns in an entire year, where Americans are struggling like never before to their medical bills or their kids tuition or high gas prices all while the profits of the drug companies and the insurance companies and the oil industries have never been higher. And once again we're faced with the politics that makes all this possible. In the last six years our leaders have thrown open the doors of Congress and the White House to an army of Washington lobbyists who have turned our government into a game only they can afford to play..."
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