Obama Ipsum

The UCC is still listening. Let us be our brother's keeper, Scripture tells us. It's a promise that says the market should reward drive and innovation and generate growth, but that businesses should live up to their responsibilities to create American jobs, look out for American workers, and play by the rules of the road. That's the change we need right now. But we should choose the right path, not just the easy path.

That's why I stand here tonight. We are shaped by every culture, drawn from every end of the Earth, and dedicated to a simple concept: E pluribus unum: "Out of many, one."

Louis, and thousands more like her, who has the grades, has the drive, has the will, but doesn't have the money to go to college. Go into the collar counties around Chicago, and people will tell you they don't want their tax money wasted, by a welfare agency or by the Pentagon. A belief that there are better days ahead. But we do need to remind ourselves that so many of the disparities that exist in the African-American community today can be directly traced to inequalities passed on from an earlier generation that suffered under the brutal legacy of slavery and Jim Crow. And I will restore our moral standing, so that America is once again that last, best hope for all who are called to the cause of freedom, who long for lives of peace, and who yearn for a better future. In ancient times and in our times, Muslim communities have been at the forefront of innovation and education.

But somehow, somewhere along the way, faith stopped being used to bring us together and started being used to drive us apart. There was even a time when the Christian Coalition determined that its number one legislative priority was tax cuts for the rich. But we also know that government initiatives are not enough. Not with so much work to be done. This is the hope of all humanity.

I believe we can provide jobs to the jobless, homes to the homeless, and reclaim young people in cities across America from violence and despair. A nation of whiners? Tell that to the proud auto workers at a Michigan plant who, after they found out it was closing, kept showing up every day and working as hard as ever, because they knew there were people who counted on the brakes that they made. Theirs are the stories that shaped me. It's a promise that says the market should reward drive and innovation and generate growth, but that businesses should live up to their responsibilities to create American jobs, look out for American workers, and play by the rules of the road. And I want to particularly say this to young people of every faith, in every country - you, more than anyone, have the ability to remake this world. But we should choose the right path, not just the easy path.

Thank you. And may God's peace be upon you.