John Lewis: "Come walk in my shoes"

U.S. Rep. John Lewis has cut loose a 60-second radio ad in the final days of his Democratic primary battle.

Technically, it's an ad. It sounds much like a mini-sermon - and from the tone and content appears aimed at African-American voters on the southern side of his 5th District rather than the Buckhead end. (A staffer has confirmed that the ad is airing primarily on black radio in metro Atlanta.)

This ad is very much a forceful attempt by Lewis to show average voters that he identifies with them.

Listen to it here. Says Lewis:

"Come walk in my shoes and see how we'll change America. But there's still a lot of work to be done. We must end the war and bring our young men and young women home. Health care is a right, not a privilege.

"We need clean, convenient mass transit. We must lose our love affair with the automobile I go to the grocery story, I see what we have to pay, it is too much. I go to the gas station, I see what we have to pay, it is too much.

"I brought hundreds of millions of dollars to the 5th District, and we need more...."