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And it's a testament to what we can achieve when good people with strong convictions stand up for their beliefs. You can't truly stand up for Georgia when you've strained our oldest alliances.
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. Tonight, more Americans are out of work and more are working harder for less. Unlike John McCain, I will stop giving tax breaks to corporations that ship jobs overseas, and I will start giving them to companies that create good jobs right here in America. And I've seen it in this campaign. The first issue that we have to confront is violent extremism in all of its forms. And just as it devastates Palestinian families, the continuing humanitarian crisis in Gaza does not serve Israel's security; neither does the continuing lack of opportunity in the West Bank.
It's that folks are hungry for change - they're hungry for something new. I will cut taxes - cut taxes - for 95% of all working families. If John McCain wants to follow George Bush with more tough talk and bad strategy, that is his choice - but it is not the change we need. I do so recognizing that change cannot happen overnight. As a student of history, I also know civilization's debt to Islam. So I have known Islam on three continents before coming to the region where it was first revealed.
And I think they recognized a part of themselves in me too. We would be making the same mistake that Reverend Wright made in his offending sermons about America - to simplify and stereotype and amplify the negative to the point that it distorts reality. And when I hear a woman talk about the difficulties of starting her own business, I think about my grandmother, who worked her way up from the secretarial pool to middle-management, despite years of being passed over for promotions because she was a woman. Our government should work for us, not against us. But my personal story is not so unique. They have killed people of different faiths - more than any other, they have killed Muslims.
That's why I've been fighting to expand the Earned Income Tax Credit and the minimum wage. It was stained by this nation's original sin of slavery, a question that divided the colonies and brought the convention to a stalemate until the founders chose to allow the slave trade to continue for at least twenty more years, and to leave any final resolution to future generations. Anyway, Ashley finishes her story and then goes around the room and asks everyone else why they're supporting the campaign. Now is the time for Palestinians to focus on what they can build.
Thank you very much everybody.