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If you're working forty hours a week, you shouldn't be living in poverty. 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.
That we can say what we think, write what we think, without hearing a sudden knock on the door. They're deciding that their work, their possessions, their diversions, their sheer busyness, is not enough. We can pounce on some gaffe by a Hillary supporter as evidence that she's playing the race card, or we can speculate on whether white men will all flock to John McCain in the general election regardless of his policies. And because she had to miss days of work, she was let go and lost her health care.
Segregated schools were, and are, inferior schools; we still haven't fixed them, fifty years after Brown v. I will rebuild our military to meet future conflicts. Some suggest that it isn't worth the effort - that we are fated to disagree, and civilizations are doomed to clash.
He is a man who served his country as a U.S. Marine; who has studied and lectured at some of the finest universities and seminaries in the country, and who for over thirty years led a church that serves the community by doing God's work here on Earth - by housing the homeless, ministering to the needy, providing day care services and scholarships and prison ministries, and reaching out to those suffering from HIV/AIDS. I just think he doesn't know. It is about preventing a nuclear arms race in the Middle East that could lead this region and the world down a hugely dangerous path. Without these ingredients, elections alone do not make true democracy. The Talmud tells us: "The whole of the Torah is for the purpose of promoting peace." We know that is God's vision.
Do we participate in a politics of cynicism or do we participate in a politics of hope? I learned that my sins could be redeemed. The children of America are not those kids, they are our kids, and we will not let them fall behind in a 21st century economy.
Thank you, and God bless America.