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From John McCain:

Tonight, we can say with confidence the primary season is over, and the general election campaign has begun.

Each American faces a decision this election and the choice between my candidacy and Senator Obama’s could not be more clear. This is a change election. But the choice is between the right change and the wrong change; between going forward and going backward.

The right change recognizes that many of the policies and institutions of our government have failed. The right kind of change will initiate widespread and innovative reforms in almost every area of government policy from energy to taxes to government spending and the military.

The right change will stop impeding Americans from doing what they have always done, overcome obstacles and turn challenges into opportunities.Today, I humbly ask you to join my campaign for the right change, as we move forward together as a nation.

The wrong change looks not to the future, but to the past for solutions that have failed us before and will surely fail us again. Like others before him, my opponent seems to think government is the answer to every problem. That’s not change we can believe in.

My friends, we’re not a country that would rather go back than forward. We’re the world’s leader, and leaders don’t hide from history. They make history. If we’re going to lead, we must reform a government that has lost its ability to help us do so.

I don’t seek the presidency on the presumption I’m blessed with such personal greatness that history has anointed me to save my country in its hour of need. I seek the office with the humility of a man who cannot forget my country saved me. I assure you that if I’m elected president, the era of reform and problem solving will begin. From my first day in office, I’ll work tirelessly to make America safe, prosperous and proud. And that, my friends, is the kind of change we need.

Indeed, and John McCain asks for support – here’s the place you can go offer it.

I’d like to take a slight time out here and ask all Americans to pat themselves on the back a little bit – for all the left’s claims that we’re a bunch of racist morons, we have – after all is said and done – nominated a black man to be the standard-bearer of one of America’s two major political parties. This is rock solid proof that race is no bar to success in America – though, of course, the left will continue to make this claim, and if Obama loses, the left will blame racism for the defeat (in the left’s view, radical leftism can never be the cause of defeat).

While Hillary, at this moment, hasn’t actually conceded, there is no way she will wind up as the Democratic nominee, so the national campaign does, indeed, begin tonight (though, Hillary, if I may put a bee in your bonnet, there’s no shame in running as a third party candidate…especially after you carry your fight to the convention and make it a nasty political free for all). And the choice is clear – victory or defeat in war; strength or appeasement in foreign policy; freedom or socialism in our economy; life or death for our unborn, and for those who are ill, and won’t find an actual place in Obama’s magical health care reforms. Obama is Jimmy Carter on leftist steriods – four years of Carter nearly wrecked our nation, four years of Obama will wreck it.

John McCain proposes tough government reforms, and while many of us have many exceptions to take with him (most notably in campaign finance reform), we can rely upon is that John McCain will tell us the truth, and he will challenge the entrenched special interests which own the Democratic party body and soul. The “change” Obama brings is just a change from having a government which seeks the greater good to having a government which seeks to divvy up the pie (and that pie, dear readers, is you and I) amongst competing, corrupt interests who paid a high price to get their man into office – or do you think the lawyers ($387 million to Democrats since 2000), unions ($228 million to Democrats since 2000) and entertainment industry ($85 million to Democrats since 2000) are donating out of altruism? When you spend that much money, you are expecting something in return – in the case of these three major donors, it will be no curbs on business-destroying lawsuits, revocation of voting rights for non-union workers and no attempts to reign in an entertainment industry which becomes more depraved in its product every year. That is what Obama brings as “change”. You want it?

For our troops, for our Iraqi and Afghan allies, for our long suffering friends in Israel, for our small businessmen, for the culture of life…for all of this, we must elect McCain President of the United States of America. The choice is clear, the challenge is strong – but with faith in God and a conviction that right makes might, lets jump right into this campaign and do the right thing, always.