Michelle Obama in Ohio says campaign about choices
WESTERVILLE, Ohio (AP) — The presidential campaign is about choices involving the economy, health care and college education and a promise kept to bring troops home from Iraq and keep the country secure, Michelle Obama said today at the first of two campaign stops in battleground Ohio.
Mrs. Obama told a crowd of around 2,000 at a suburban Columbus high school gymnasium that the country must decide whether to go forward with the initiatives her husband has undertaken or let the progress slip away.
She said the country is better off because of the passage of the Affordable Care Act, the return of troops from Iraq and the auto bailout.
“These are the choices that we face,” Mrs. Obama said. “Are we going to continue to change with regard to the progress that we’ve made, or are we just going to let everything we’ve worked so hard for just slip away? We can’t do that — we have to keep moving forward, forward.”
But Mrs. Obama cautioned that change can take time, and it might not even happen right away.
“Maybe not in our lifetimes, but maybe in our children’s lifetimes, maybe in our grandchildren’s lifetimes,” she said. “Because in the end, that is what this is all about. In the end, that’s what elections are always about. Elections are always about hopes, about hopes we want to leave for the next generation.”