President Obama’s reelection campaign released a preview of its upcoming 17-minute “documentary” today on YouTube. The film, dubbed “The Road We’ve Traveled,” begins airing at Obama for America field offices across the country next Thursday. “Inconvenient Truth” director Davis Guggenheim directed the film and it is narrated by Tom Hanks. Transcript below:
Tom Hanks: How do we understand this president and his time in office? Do we look at the days headlines, or do we remember what we as a country have been through?
Austan Goolsbee: The President-elect is here in Chicago and he has named the members of the economic team and they all fly in for the first big briefing on the economy.
David Axelrod: What was described in that meeting was an economic crisis beyond anything anybody had imagined.
President Obama: Our time of standing pat, of protecting narrow interests and putting off unpleasant decisions, that time has surely passed.
Tom Hanks: His advisors would ask, where to begin? Which urgent need would he put first?
Rahm Emanuel: Which is one, which is two, which is three, which is four, which is five? Where do you start?
Joe Biden: If we don’t do this now, it will be a generation before 30 million people have health insurance.
Elizabeth Warren: If the auto industry goes down, what happens to America’s manufacturing base? What happens to jobs in America? What happens to the whole mid-west?
Joe Biden: The entire national security apparatus was in that room. And now we had to make a decision. Go, or not go? As he walked out the room, the thought dawned on me, “He’s all alone. This is his decision. Nobody is standing there with him.
Austan Goolsbee: The President-elect is here in Chicago and he has named the members of the economic team and they all fly in for the first big briefing on the economy.
David Axelrod: What was described in that meeting was an economic crisis beyond anything anybody had imagined.
President Obama: Our time of standing pat, of protecting narrow interests and putting off unpleasant decisions, that time has surely passed.
Tom Hanks: His advisors would ask, where to begin? Which urgent need would he put first?
Rahm Emanuel: Which is one, which is two, which is three, which is four, which is five? Where do you start?
Joe Biden: If we don’t do this now, it will be a generation before 30 million people have health insurance.
Elizabeth Warren: If the auto industry goes down, what happens to America’s manufacturing base? What happens to jobs in America? What happens to the whole mid-west?
Joe Biden: The entire national security apparatus was in that room. And now we had to make a decision. Go, or not go? As he walked out the room, the thought dawned on me, “He’s all alone. This is his decision. Nobody is standing there with him.
