THE PRESIDENT: Now, listen, I know it’s easy to get fed up with campaigns and politics. Sometimes it seems it’s meaner and smaller and more gridlocked than ever. And every day, there’s a steady stream of cynics who will tell you nothing really changes; you can’t make a difference; you won’t be able to close the gap between life as it is and life as you want it to be. Old folks will always tell you that — and I’m in that category now. (Laughter.)

And, frankly, some folks, they make it their political strategy to try to make you feel discouraged. They’ll tell you over and over again how bad everything is, and then, of course, they’ll add that it’s all Obama’s fault. (Laughter.) And they’ll tell you that if you believed in change four years ago, your faith was foolish and you were being na ve. Last week, my opponent’s campaign went so far as to write you off as a “lost generation” — that’s you according to them.

AUDIENCE: Booo —

THE PRESIDENT: And what they hope is that by telling you these things, you’ll get discouraged and you’ll just stay home this time.

AUDIENCE: No!

THE PRESIDENT: But you can’t believe it. I don’t believe it. We knew that solving our biggest problems were going to take more than one year, or one term, or even one President. But we went ahead and we got started. (Applause.) We know we’ve still got a lot of work to do to get to where we need to be. But we are going to get there. (Applause.)

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