Obama Ipsum

And we should close Guantanamo Bay and stop tolerating the torture of our enemies. But at the end of the day, we cannot walk away - not for the sake of passing a bill, but so that we can finally address the real concerns of Americans and the persistent hopes of all those brothers and sisters who want nothing more than their own chance at our common dream. We know that is God's vision.

Despite the temptation to view my candidacy through a purely racial lens, we won commanding victories in states with some of the whitest populations in the country. For decades, there has been a stalemate: two peoples with legitimate aspirations, each with a painful history that makes compromise elusive. troops and civilians.

Our pride is based on a very simple premise, summed up in a declaration made over two hundred years ago: We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal. He does not say education or the war. More recently, tension has been fed by colonialism that denied rights and opportunities to many Muslims, and a Cold War in which Muslim-majority countries were too often treated as proxies without regard to their own aspirations. I know, too, that Islam has always been a part of America's story.

For some, nagging questions remain. Talk show hosts and conservative commentators built entire careers unmasking bogus claims of racism while dismissing legitimate discussions of racial injustice and inequality as mere political correctness or reverse racism. To the love of my life, our next First Lady, Michelle Obama, and to Sasha and Malia - I love you so much, and I'm so proud of all of you. I believe that as hard as it will be, the change we need is coming. And we will do so in partnership with Muslim communities which are also threatened. For more than sixty years they have endured the pain of dislocation.

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. And this helps explain, perhaps, my relationship with Reverend Wright. Like the anger within the black community, these resentments aren't always expressed in polite company. 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. There is no straight line to realize this promise.

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