Bruce Springsteen Endorses President Obama, Campaigns with Bill Clinton

Ohio is an important battleground state in the race to the White House and President Obama has tapped Bruce Springsteen to help him win his job back.

On Thursday, President Bill Clinton and Springsteen made a special appearance together at a get out the vote event in Parma, Ohio at Cuyahoga Community College, West Campus.

In an open letter, Springsteen said Obama is "our best choice to get us and keep us moving in the right direction."

"President Obama is our best choice because he has a vision of the United States as a place where we are all in this together," Springsteen said. "We're still living through very hard times but justice, equality and real freedom are not always a tide rushing in. They are more often a slow march, inch by inch, day after long day. I believe President Obama feels these days in his bones and has the strength to live them with us and to lead us to a country '...where no one crowds you and no one goes it alone.'"

As part of the Obama campaign's Campus Takeover Week, Springsteen also gave a special performance at Iowa State University and he said that this presidential election is different than the last one because President Obama has a four year record to run on.

"Last time around, he carried with him a tremendous amount of hope and expectations," Springsteen said. "Unfortunately, due to the economic chaos the previous administration left him with, and the extraordinary intensity of the opposition, it turned into a really rough ride. But through grit, determination, and focus, the president has been able to do a great many things that many of us deeply support."

Springsteen said he wrote the letter for those who are interested because, "the election is coming up on all of us and we all have strong feelings about it" and he has been getting asked a lot about where he stands."

"Iowans understand hard work, fairness and integrity, the same values that Bruce Springsteen, the president and vice president stand for," Obama campaign manager Jim Messina said in a statement. "Springsteen's appearances will be valuable in energizing supporters and getting out the vote effort in these important swing states."

The full text of Springsteen's comments can be read here.