Obama Ipsum

And all across the country, communities of faith are sponsoring day care programs, building senior centers, and in so many other ways, taking part in the project of American renewal. Board of Education, and the inferior education they provided, then and now, helps explain the pervasive achievement gap between today's black and white students. Because in the faces of those young veterans who come back from Iraq and Afghanistan, I see my grandfather, who signed up after Pearl Harbor, marched in Patton's Army, and was rewarded by a grateful nation with the chance to go to college on the GI Bill. It was a peaceful and determined insistence upon the ideals at the center of America's founding. And it is no coincidence that countries where women are well-educated are far more likely to be prosperous. That is the world we seek.

And it's a testament to what we can achieve when good people with strong convictions stand up for their beliefs. And they are a part of America, this country that I love. And next week, we'll also hear about those occasions when he's broken with his party as evidence that he can deliver the change that we need. Each nation gives life to this principle in its own way, grounded in the traditions of its own people.

Not with an economy to fix and cities to rebuild and farms to save. And I consider it part of my responsibility as President of the United States to fight against negative stereotypes of Islam wherever they appear. Moreover, freedom in America is indivisible from the freedom to practice one's religion. People in every country should be free to choose and live their faith based upon the persuasion of the mind, heart, and soul.

There are patriots who opposed the war in Iraq and there are patriots who supported the war in Iraq. Because it's not who we are. That legacy of defeat was passed on to future generations - those young men and increasingly young women who we see standing on street corners or languishing in our prisons, without hope or prospects for the future. He said that the fundamentals of the economy are strong. Our government should work for us, not against us. The men and women who gathered there could've heard many things.

There are patriots who opposed the war in Iraq and there are patriots who supported the war in Iraq. We need to heed the biblical call to care for "the least of these" and lift the poor out of despair. But it does find voice in the barbershop or around the kitchen table. Politicians routinely exploited fears of crime for their own electoral ends. That is the responsibility we have to one another as human beings. I know there are many - Muslim and non-Muslim - who question whether we can forge this new beginning.

Thank you, and God bless America.