REMARKS BY THE PRESIDENT AND FIRST LADY AT A CAMPAIGN EVENT
The White House
Office of the Press Secretary
Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia
5:05 P.M. EDT
MRS. OBAMA: Hello, Virginia! (Applause.) It sounds like you all are already fired up. It sounds like you all are ready to go. (Applause.) And let me tell you something. Being here with all of you today, I am feeling pretty fired up and ready to go myself. (Applause.) Now, there is a reason why we’re all here today, in addition to being fired up and ready to go. And it’s not just because we all support an extraordinary man. (Applause.) And I am biased. I think our President is magnificent. (Applause.)
And it’s not just because we want to win an election — which we do. (Applause.) We are here because of the values we believe in. We’re here because of the vision for this country that we all share. We’re here because we want our children to have good schools, the kind of schools that push them, the kind of schools that inspire them and prepare them for good jobs. (Applause.) That’s why we’re here. We want our parents and our grandparents to retire with dignity, because we believe that after a lifetime of hard work, they should enjoy their golden years. (Applause.)
We’re here because we want to restore that basic middle-class security for our families because we believe that folks in this country shouldn’t go bankrupt because they get sick. (Applause.) We believe they shouldn’t lose their home because someone loses a job. We believe that responsibility should be rewarded and hard work should pay off.
And the thing that we all know is that these are basic American values. They’re the values that so many of us were raised with, including myself. (Applause.) I told this story earlier, but my father was a blue-collar worker at the city water plant. And my family lived in a very little apartment on the South Side of Chicago — South Side! (Applause.) And neither of my parents had the chance to attend college, but let me tell you what my parents did do,
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on May 6 2012. Filed under Barack Obama.
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