Transcript of Obama With Voter

Voter:  My very brief comment is, that, as you spoke to some of the dirty politics - I was sick to death of some of the soundbytes of Reverend Jeremiah Wright. And I was fortunate enough that my husband had the forethought to tape Bill Moyers interview with Reverend Wright on PBS last Sunday at 11. And I would encourage anyone here who has not seen that to go to PBS.org and watch that interview encourage your friends who may be still holding that doubt about Reverend Wright, where you come from, your spiritual foundation, to watch that interview.

Obama: Well, you know, I’m going to be having a big press conference afterwards to talk about this. So I don’t want to distract from this issue. But let me just say this: this has diverted attention from the first story that you told. And it’s that first story, it is that first story that this election is all about. If you’ve got a mother with a ten year old who needs to borrow $20 to get to her minimum wage job, that’s what this election is about. And that’s why she needs - that mother doesn’t just need $20 from generous people. She needs some help from her government. She needs - she probably doesn’t just need a middle class tax cut. She needs the earned income tax credit to be expanded to give her more income, because if somebody works in this country they should not be poor. If somebody works in this country they should not be poor. If you’re doing the right thing, you should not be poor.