40,000 cheer Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton in Orlando

By Jim Stratton and Daphne Sashin

Campaigning in Orlando for the first time since becoming the Democratic presidential nominee, Sen. Barack Obama rallied an estimated 40,000 supporters at Amway Arena on Monday, saying he'd offer a "rescue plan for the middle class" by creating "jobs, baby, jobs." Obama, joined by New York Sen. Hillary Clinton, said Americans had suffered through two terms of the "failed policies" of President Bush -- policies Obama claims Republican John McCain would continue. "It'll take a real change in the policies and politics of the last eight years," Obama said. "We've got to reverse the last eight years. And that's what this election is all about." Obama said he would spend $15 billion creating new jobs in the field of renewable energy and the auto industry. "Jobs," he said, "building fuel-efficient cars made not in Japan, not in South Korea, but right here in the United States of America."

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