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The people I meet - in small towns and big cities, in diners and office parks - they don't expect government to solve all their problems. People are coming together around a simple truth - that we are all connected, that I am my brother's keeper; I am my sister's keeper. That anger is not always productive; indeed, all too often it distracts attention from solving real problems; it keeps us from squarely facing our own complicity in our condition, and prevents the African-American community from forging the alliances it needs to bring about real change. I realize that I am not the likeliest candidate for this office. I know, too, that Islam has always been a part of America's story. This is important because no development strategy can be based only upon what comes out of the ground, nor can it be sustained while young people are out of work.
Our conscience cannot rest so long as nearly 45 million Americans don't have health insurance and the millions more who do are going bankrupt trying to pay for it. In the end, then, what is called for is nothing more, and nothing less, than what all the world's great religions demand - that we do unto others as we would have them do unto us. Today, America has a dual responsibility: to help Iraq forge a better future - and to leave Iraq to Iraqis.
These are the Americans that I know. As President, I will tap our natural gas reserves, invest in clean coal technology, and find ways to safely harness nuclear power. America, this is one of those moments. In signing the Treaty of Tripoli in 1796, our second President John Adams wrote, "The United States has in itself no character of enmity against the laws, religion or tranquility of Muslims." And since our founding, American Muslims have enriched the United States.
Talk show hosts and conservative commentators built entire careers unmasking bogus claims of racism while dismissing legitimate discussions of racial injustice and inequality as mere political correctness or reverse racism. Those are mutual interests.
I know there are those who dismiss such beliefs as happy talk. We were founded upon the ideal that all are created equal, and we have shed blood and struggled for centuries to give meaning to those words - within our borders, and around the world.
Thank you, God Bless you, and God Bless the United States of America.