Obama Ipsum

The President vetoed a similar plan, but he doesn't have the last word, and we're going to keep at it, until we bring this war to an end. What has also been lost is our sense of common purpose - our sense of higher purpose. The United States has been one of the greatest sources of progress that the world has ever known. We also know that military power alone is not going to solve the problems in Afghanistan and Pakistan. No single nation should pick and choose which nations hold nuclear weapons. This last point is important because there are some who advocate for democracy only when they are out of power; once in power, they are ruthless in suppressing the rights of others.

And so they need an assurance that somebody out there cares about them, is listening to them - that they are not just destined to travel down that long road toward nothingness. As President, I will tap our natural gas reserves, invest in clean coal technology, and find ways to safely harness nuclear power. Now is the time to finally meet our moral obligation to provide every child a world-class education, because it will take nothing less to compete in the global economy. And I've seen it in this campaign. Much has been made of the fact that an African-American with the name Barack Hussein Obama could be elected President. government has gone to court to protect the right of women and girls to wear the hijab, and to punish those who would deny it.

Because for two hundred and thirty two years, at each moment when that promise was in jeopardy, ordinary men and women - students and soldiers, farmers and teachers, nurses and janitors - found the courage to keep it alive. Yet in this new age, such attitudes are self-defeating. Many Gulf States have enjoyed great wealth as a consequence of oil, and some are beginning to focus it on broader development.

It's not enough, but it's helping. And there's another issue we must confront as well. I can no more disown him than I can disown the black community. It will be hard to overcome decades of mistrust, but we will proceed with courage, rectitude and resolve.

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. And so in that spirit, let me speak as clearly and plainly as I can about some specific issues that I believe we must finally confront together. There is no straight line to realize this promise.

Thank you, God Bless you, and God Bless the United States of America.