Cspan. Org. Test captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2008 starting in january in a mccain Palin Administration were going to lay more pipelines and build more Nuclear Plants and create jobs with clean coal and move forward on solar, wind, geo thermal and other alternative sources. We need [ applause ] [ applause ] we need american sources of resources. We need American Energy brought to you by American Ingenuity and produced by american workers. [ applause ] now ive noticed a pattern with our opponent and maybe you have too. Weve all heard his dramatic speeches before devoted followers and there is much to like and admire about our opponent, but listening to him speak, its easy to forget that this is a man who has authored two memoirs but not a single major law or even a reform, not even in the state senate. This is a man who can give an entire speech about the wars america is fighting and never use the word victory is, except when hes talking about his own campaign. But when the cloud of rhetoric has passed, when the roar of the crowd fades away, b when the stadium lights are out and the columns are hauled back to some studio lot, when that happens, what exactly is our opponents plan . What does he actually seek to accomplish after hes done turning back the waters and healing the planet . The answer the answer is to make government bigger and take more of your money and give you more orders from washington and to reduce the strength of america in a dangerous world. America needs more energy. Other opponent is against producing it. Victory in iraq is finally in sight, and he wants to forfeit. Terrorist states are seeking Nuclear Weapons without delay, he wants to meet them without preconditions. Al qaeda terrorists still plot to inflict catastrophic harm on america, and hes worried that someone wont read them their rights. Government is too big. He wants to grow it. Congress spends too much money. He promises more. Taxes are too high. He wants to raise them. His tax increases are the fine print in his economic plan, and let me be specific, the democratic nominee for president supports plans to raise income taxes and raise payroll taxes and raise Investment Income taxes and raise the death tax and raise business taxes and increase the tax burden on the American People by hundreds of billions of dollars. My sister heather and her husband they just built a service station thats now open for business like millions of others who run small businesses. How are they how are they going to be better off if taxes go up or maybe you are trying to keep your job at a plant in michigan or in ohio or youre trying to create jobs from clean coal, from pennsylvania or west virginia, trying to keep a small farm in the family in minnesota, how you going to be better off if our opponent adds a massive tax burden to the American Economy . Heres how i look at the choice americans face in this election. In politics there are some candidates who use change to promote their careers and then there are those like john mccain who use their careers to promote change. They are the ones whose names appear on laws and landmark reforms, not just on buttons and banners or on selfdesigned president ial seals. Among politicians there is the idealism of high flown speech making in which crowds are summoned to support great things and then there is the idealism of those leaders like john mccain who actually do great things. Theyre the ones good for more than talk, the ones weve always been able to count on to serve and defend america. Senator mccains record of actual achievement and reform helps explain why so many special interests and lobbyists and comfortable Committee Chairmen and congress have fought the prospect of a mccain presidency from the primary election of 2000 to this very day. Our nominee doesnt run with the washington herd. Hes a man whos there to serve his country and not just his party, a leader who is not looking for a fight, but sure isnt afraid of one either. Harry reid the majority of the current do nothing senate, he not long ago summed up his feelings about our nominee. He said, quote, i cant stand john mccain. Ladies and gentlemen perhaps no accolade we hear this week is better proof than weve chosen the right man. Clearly what the majority leader was driving at is that he cant stand up to john mccain and that is only one more reason to take the maverick out of the senate and put him in the white house. My fellow citizens, the american presidency is not supposed to be a journey of personal discovery. This world of threats and dangers, its not just a community and it doesnt just need an organizer and though both senator obama and senator biden have been going on lately about how theyre always, quote, fighting for you, let us face the matter squarely. There is only one man in this election who has ever really fought for you. There is only one man in this election who has ever really fought for you in places where winning means survival and defeat means death. And that man is john mccain. You know, in our day, politicians have readily shared much lesser tales of adversity than the nightmare world in which this man and others equally braved, served and suffered for their country and its a long way from the fear and pain and squalor of a 6 by 4 cell in hanoi to the oval office. But if senator mccain is elected president that is the journey he will have made, its the journey of an upright and honorable man, the kind of fellow whose name you will find on War Memorials in small townses across this great country, only he was among those who came home. To the most powerful office on earth he would bring the compassion that examines from having once been powerless, the wisdom, that comes even to the captives by the grace of god, the special confidence of those who have seen evil and have seen how evil is overcome. A fellow prison of war, a man named tom from lancaster, ohio, tom recalls looking through a pinhole in his cell door is as Lieutenant Commander john mccain was led down the hallway by the guards day after day and the story is told when mccain shuffled back from torturous interrogations, he would turn towards mos door and flash a grin and a thumbs up as if to say, were going to pull through this. My fellow americans, that is the kind of man America Needs to see us through the next four years. For a season a gifted speaker can inspire with his words, but for a lifetime john mccain has inspired with his deeds. If character is the measure in this election and hope the theme and change the goal we share, then i ask you to join our cause. Join our cause and help america elect a great man as the next president of the United States. Thank you and God Bless America thank you. [ applause ] [ applause ] [ applause ] fantastic. Fantastic. [ applause ] tremendous. Thank you. [ applause ] dont you think we made the right choice for the next Vice President of the United States . [ applause ] what a beautiful family. [ applause ] [ applause ] [ applause ] [ applause ] [ applause ] the president s, available in paperback, hard cover and ebook from public affairs, presents biographies of every president , inspired by conversations with noted historians about the leadership skills that make for a successful presidency. In this president ial Election Year as america decides who should lead our country, this offers perspectives into the lives and events that forged each president s leadership style. To learn more about our president s and the book featured historians visit cspan. Org thepresident s. Week nights this month were featuring American History tv programs as a preview of whats available every weekend on cspan 3. Tonight a look at civil war objects. Historian Harold Holzer and valerie paily at the Historical Society held a series of online talks this summer about artifacts featured in their joint publication the civil war in 50 objects. In the first of four of these programs we show tonight they discuss objects related to soldiers uniforms. Watch tonight beginning at 8 00 eastern and enjoy American History tv this weekend and every weekend on cspan 3. Each week American History tvs american artifacts visits museums and historic places. Up next inside the u. S. Capitols house wing where Matthew Wasniewski and curator Farar Elliott use artifacts and photographs to