The plan is to raise money for Save the Children's Rewrite the Future program, which is focused on educating children whose lives have been disrupted by armed conflict, and Kiva's effort to provide small loans to entrepreneurs in the developing world who need capital to improve their lives.

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President Obama seems to want to reshape the debate, to rewrite, as it were, the future, and set out an optimistic vision of America for his election campaign.

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