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The times are too serious, the stakes are too high for this same partisan playbook. I don't fit the typical pedigree, and I haven't spent my career in the halls of Washington. The men and women who gathered there could've heard many things. Together, you represent the harmony between tradition and progress. We cannot impose peace.
We can affirm our faith without endangering the separation of church and state, as long as we understand that when we're in the public square, we have to speak in universal terms that everyone can understand. Unlike John McCain, I will stop giving tax breaks to corporations that ship jobs overseas, and I will start giving them to companies that create good jobs right here in America.
And it's a testament to what we can achieve when good people with strong convictions stand up for their beliefs. There is real evil and hardship and pain and suffering in the world and we should be humble in our belief that we can eliminate them. We can tackle race only as spectacle - as we did in the OJ trial - or in the wake of tragedy, as we did in the aftermath of Katrina - or as fodder for the nightly news. We can play Reverend Wright's sermons on every channel, every day and talk about them from now until the election, and make the only question in this campaign whether or not the American people think that I somehow believe or sympathize with his most offensive words. She's the one who put off buying a new car or a new dress for herself so that I could have a better life. We cannot impose peace.
I was raised with the help of a white grandfather who survived a Depression to serve in Patton's Army during World War II and a white grandmother who worked on a bomber assembly line at Fort Leavenworth while he was overseas. This union may never be perfect, but generation after generation has shown that it can always be perfected. What is that promise? America will not turn our backs on the legitimate Palestinian aspiration for dignity, opportunity, and a state of their own.
After the war, they studied on the G.I. That's the promise of America - the idea that we are responsible for ourselves, but that we also rise or fall as one nation; the fundamental belief that I am my brother's keeper; I am my sister's keeper. Not with an economy to fix and cities to rebuild and farms to save.
Thank you, God Bless you, and God Bless the United States of America.