America 'slipping away', says Obama

WASHINGTON - Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama said Saturday night that he believed America was “slipping away” and needed someone to get it back on track.

Speaking to a large Christian audience at Saddleback Church in Lake Forest of Orange County near Los Angeles, Obama said: “We’ve got to make the big decisions but we keep putting them off.”

Washington is “broken”, but “I have the ability to build bridges. I hope I have the opportunity to do that,” Obama said.

Speaking on the same occasion, Republican presidential candidate John McCain said he also can bring the country together and that he can “move across the aisle” between Republicans and Democrats in Congress.