希拉里：感谢麦凯恩但请他离开政治

　　He'll transform our energy agenda by creating millions of green jobs and building a new, clean energy future. He'll make sure that middle class families get the tax relief they deserve. And I can't wait to watch Barack Obama sign a health care plan into law that covers every single American.

　　Barack Obama will end the war in Iraq responsibly and bring our troops home - a first step to repairing our alliances around the world.

　　And he will have with him a terrific partner in Michelle Obama. Anyone who saw Michelle's speech last night knows she will be a great First Lady for America.

　　Americans are also fortunate that Joe Biden will be at Barack Obama's side. He is a strong leader and a good man. He understands both the economic stresses here at home and the strategic challenges abroad. He is pragmatic, tough, and wise. And, of course, Joe will be supported by his wonderful wife, Jill.

　　They will be a great team for our country.

　　Now, John McCain is my colleague and my friend.

　　He has served our country with honor and courage.

　　But we don't need four more years . . . of the last eight years.

　　More economic stagnation ... and less affordable health care.

　　More high gas prices ... and less alternative energy.

　　More jobs getting shipped overseas ... and fewer jobs created here.

　　More skyrocketing debt ...home foreclosures ... and mounting bills that are crushing our middle class families.

　　More war . . . less diplomacy.

　　More of a government where the privileged come first ... and everyone else comes last.

　　John McCain says the economy is fundamentally sound. John McCain doesn't think that 47 million people without health insurance is a crisis. John McCain wants to privatize Social Security. And in 2008, he still thinks it's okay when women don't earn equal pay for equal work.

　　With an agenda like that, it makes sense that George Bush and John McCain will be together next week in the Twin Cities. Because these days they're awfully hard to tell apart.

　　America is still around after 232 years because we have risen to the challenge of every new time, changing to be faithful to our values of equal opportunity for all and the common good.

　　And I know what that can mean for every man, woman, and child in America. I'm a United States Senator because in 1848 a group of courageous women and a few brave men gathered in Seneca Falls, New York, many traveling for days and nights, to participate in the first convention on women's rights in our history.

　　And so dawned a struggle for the right to vote that would last 72 years, handed down by mother to daughter to granddaughter - and a few sons and grandsons along the way.

　　These women and men looked into their daughters' eyes, imagined a fairer and freer world, and found the strength to fight. To rally and picket. To endure ridicule and harassment. To brave violence and jail.