Obama Ipsum

The day after Pearl Harbor my grandfather signed up for duty; joined Patton's army, marched across Europe. But kneeling beneath that cross on the South Side, I felt I heard God's spirit beckoning me. We need to heed the biblical call to care for "the least of these" and lift the poor out of despair. It's a story that hasn't made me the most conventional candidate. We are a better country than this.

This country of ours has more wealth than any nation, but that's not what makes us rich. On science and technology, we will launch a new fund to support technological development in Muslim-majority countries, and to help transfer ideas to the marketplace so they can create jobs. The issues that I have described will not be easy to address.

No, the word is very near. This belief comes from my unyielding faith in the decency and generosity of the American people. Their experience is the immigrant experience - as far as they're concerned, no one's handed them anything, they've built it from scratch. If you don't, you'll be able to get the same kind of coverage that members of Congress give themselves. Much has been made of the fact that an African-American with the name Barack Hussein Obama could be elected President.

You can't truly stand up for Georgia when you've strained our oldest alliances. Many Gulf States have enjoyed great wealth as a consequence of oil, and some are beginning to focus it on broader development.

In a sense, what brought me to Chicago in the first place was a hunger for some sort of meaning in my life. The Arab-Israeli conflict should no longer be used to distract the people of Arab nations from other problems. In all nations - including my own - this change can bring fear.

Thank you very much everybody.