This afternoon, CNN showed Barack Obama speaking before a crowd of 800 poeple in Terre Haute, Indiana earlier today. Our next President knows the score, and that’s very reassuring. Partial transcript below.

Everywhere I go we’ve been talking about change, that’s been the theme of the campaign. And we must be on to something, because I notice now everyone’s talking about change now.

John McCain has said that change is coming!

Now think about this coming from the party that’s been in charge for 8 years, they’ve been running the show! Been up in the White House, John McCain brags, ‘90% of the time I have voted with George Bush. He and I we we’re right there’ and suddenly he’s the change agent!

He says, ‘I’m going to tell those lobbyists that their days in Washington are over.’ Who’s he gonna tell? Is he gonna tell his campaign chairman who’s one of the biggest corporate lobbyists in Washington? Is he going to tell all the folks who are running his campaign who are the biggest corporate lobbyists in Washington? Who is it that he’s going to tell that change is coming?

I mean come on! They must think you’re stupid!

I mean, maybe what they’re saying is ‘watch out George Bush’ you know except for economic policies, and tax policies, and energy policies, and health care policies, and education policies, and Karl Rove style of politics – except for all that, we’re really going to bring change to Washington! We’re gonna shake things up! What are these guys talking about? Do they think we haven’t been paying attention over the past 8 years?

UPDATE: The Associated Press has more.