President Obama started with a much weaker economy than I did. Listen to me now. No president, no president, not me, not any of my predecessors, no one could have fully repaired all the damage that he found in just four years.

　　In Tampa last week, the Republican vice presidential nominee, Paul Ryan, gave a speech on Wednesday. His Democratic counterpart, Vice President Joe Biden, spoke yesterday.

　　We`re on a mission to move this nation forward. From doubt and downturn to promise and prosperity. A mission I guarantee you we will complete.

　　The evening and two weeks of political conventions came to a conclusion with President Obama taking the stage in Charlotte and making his case for reelection.

　　Our problems can be solved. Our challenges can be met. The path we offer may be harder, but it leads to a better place, and I`m asking you to choose that future. I`m asking you to rally around a set of goals for your country. Goals in manufacturing, energy, education, national security, and the deficit. Real, achievable plans that will lead to new jobs, more opportunity, and rebuild this economy on a stronger foundation. That`s what we can do in the next four years, and that is why I am running for a second term as president of the United States.

　　A lot of people you`ve seen at these conventions are delegates, representing their home states. Hannah McCarley is a delegate from West Virginia, who celebrated her 18th birthday in Charlotte on Monday. She talked with us about the experience of being a delegate.

　　At our county conventions, we were selected to go to the state convention. You could be nominated, and you could file your paperwork and have your name placed on the ballot at the state convention, where you could run to be a delegate for the national convention. So I had to campaign and talk with people, and I had to have enough votes to be able to go.

　　It means a lot for me, because I`ve always worked on politics on a local level, and this summer I got the opportunity to do something on the national level, and I think it means a lot, both as a young woman and as a youth going into education and going into the college admissions process to have a voice in politics.

　　As far as education policies, health care policies, women`s rights and equality, I think that Barack Obama is ready to move this country forward, and I think that everyone deserves their given rights, and I don`t think that people should be telling, you know, the rest of the country what they can and cannot do, health-care wise, education-wise, what opportunities they can and can`t have. And I think President Barack Obama will give us more of these opportunities that will allow us to live our -- each live our American dreams.

　　On our show from August 29th, we heard from 17-year-old Evan Drame . He`s the youngest Republican delegate in Tampa, and you can check out what he had to say in the transcript archives of our home page.