President Barack Obama will make his pitch Thursday in the final night of the Democratic National Convention, where he'll aim to lay out what voters can expect under a second term.

While first lady Michele Obama and former President Bill Clinton headlined the other two nights this week, the president's re-election team said Obama will cap the week with a final theme of looking "forward."

"So we've talked about the heart, the head, and tonight it's about the future," a senior campaign official told CNN reporters covering the convention in Charlotte, North Carolina.

Officials said the president will reiterate "concrete, tangible" policy ideas in his speech, though it was unclear whether he would put forward specific benchmarks and how to pay for those goals. One official, however, stressed the speech would not be a laundry list of proposals.

"This is not a State of the Union address," the official said. "It's a path forward."

The president will draw contrasts with his Republican challenger Mitt Romney, but the campaign argued the speech will also be "bigger than that."

"We're not speaking to necessarily the delegates in the room, we're speaking to the American people," the official added.

Drama erupted at the convention Wednesday when convention officials held a vote to re-insert language into the party platform recognizing Jerusalem as the capital of Israel and including the word "God" in the document--two omissions that drew criticism from many in the party. The campaign said the president personally directed that it be fixed.

Asked if Obama will address the changes in the speech or give a final word on the issue, a campaign official argued there was no need to further talk about it.

"We don't think there is any lack of clarity or need to put it to bed; we put it to bed yesterday," the official said.