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"We can't have an energy strategy for the last century that traps us in the past. We need an energy strategy for the future -- an all-of-the-above strategy for the 21st century that develops every source of American-made energy." - President Barack Obama, March 15, 2012

During the last weeks of this campaign there will be debates, speeches and more ads. But if I could sit down with you in your living room or around the kitchen table here's what I'd say:

Voiceover:
"Seen these new ads, where Mitt Romney says he's a friend of coal country? This is the guy who wants to keep tax breaks for companies that ship American jobs overseas. The same guy who had a Swiss bank account...and millions in tax havens like Bermuda and the Caymans. And on coal?"

"Well, here's what he said as Governor, outside a coal fired power plant."

Romney:
"...I will not create jobs or hold jobs that kill people...and that plant, that plant kills people..."

The Romney campaign said that it won't "be dictated by fact-checkers"—in other words, they won't be driven by facts. But whether the truth matters in this election isn't up to the Romney campaign, it's up to you.

President Obama spoke shared the importance of investing in new energy sources. In Colorado: -Wind production is up 49% under President Obama. -There are 18 manufacturing facilities producing components for the wind industry. - The wind industry supports 5,000 jobs in Colorado

Jennifer Mulhern Granholm (born February 5, 1959) is a Canadian-born American politician, educator, author and political commentator who served as Attorney General and 47th Governor of the U.S. state of Michigan.

President Obama spoke on Romney's middle class tax increase and shared how his plan will keep strengthening middle class families.

President Obama was in Orlando, FL to discuss the choice in this election between two fundamentally different visions of how to grow the economy, create middle-class jobs and pay down the debt.

Today, at a grassroots event in Mansfield, Ohio, President Obama highlighted a new report from the Tax Policy Center -- a nonpartisan policy think tank -- that concludes that Mitt Romney would have to raise taxes on millions of middle-class families with children by more than $2,000 to pay for his $5 trillion tax plan tilted to the wealthiest.

Voiceover: "You watched and worried: two wars, tax cuts for millionaires, debt piled up. And now we face a choice.

Mitt Romney's plan?

A new $250,000 tax cut for millionaires, increase military spending, adding trillions to the deficit.

Or President Obama's plan?

President Obama: "We're a nation of workers and doers and dreamers. We work hard for what we get. And all we ask for is that our hard work pays off. I believe that the way you grow the economy is from the middle out. I believe in fighting for the middle class because if they're prospering all of us will prosper.