The Obama campaign says the Illinois senator will present his closing argument Monday morning in Canton. What voters can expect to hear:

In his speech, Senator Obama will tell voters that after twenty-one months and three debates, Senator McCain still has not been able to tell the American people a single major thing he'd do differently from George Bush when it comes to the economy. Obama will ask Americans to help him change this country, and say that in just one week, they can choose an economy that rewards work and creates new jobs and fuels prosperity from the bottom-up, they can choose to invest in health care for our families and education for our kids and renewable energy for our future, and they can choose hope over fear, unity over division and the promise of change over the power of the status quo.

One word: finally. After 20 months and 16 days for Obama and 18 months to the day for McCain, we are finally reaching the end.

Update:
After the jump are excerpts from Obama's speech.

Update2:
There's not much new in Obama's "closing arguement" that he just finished delivering before 4,900 in Canton. It sounds like his greatest hits -- a succession of all him most recent successful lines. A smattering of, what I think are, easily recognizable phrases:

I knew that the size of our challenges had outgrown the smallness of our politics (Indianapolis, May 08).

...I believed in your ability to make change happen. I knew that the American people were a decent, generous people who are willing to work hard and sacrifice for future generations. And I was convinced that when we come together, our voices are more powerful than the most entrenched lobbyists, or the most vicious political attacks, or the full force of a status quo in Washington that wants to keep things just the way they are (Green Bay, September 08)

...It's time to stop spending $10 billion a month in Iraq while the Iraqi government sits on a huge surplus. As President, I will end this war. (Denver, October 08)

... Each of us has a responsibility to work hard and look after ourselves and our families, and each of us has a responsibility to our fellow citizens. That's what's been lost these last eight years – our sense of common purpose; of higher purpose. (Convention speech, Aug. 08)

...In this election, we cannot afford the same political games and tactics that are being used to pit us against one another and make us afraid of one another. (San Antonio, February 08)

... The men and women who serve in our battlefields may be Democrats and Republicans and Independents, but they have fought together and bled together and some died together under the same proud flag. They have not served a Red America or a Blue America – they have served the United States of America. (Fayetteville, NC October 08)

... I ask you to believe – not just in my ability to bring about change, but in yours... And if in this last week, you will knock on some doors for me, and make some calls for me, and talk to your neighbors, and convince your friends; if you will stand with me, and fight with me, and give me your vote, then I promise you this – we will not just win Ohio, we will not just win this election, but together, we will change this country and we will change the world. (Columbus, February 07)

All he was missing was the "fierce urgency of now," "fired up and ready to go," and "yes, we can." But he certainly turned on the full force of his considerable oratory abilities, doing his best to captivate his audience.

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