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I have a plan that would have already begun redeploying our troops with the goal of bringing all our combat brigades home by March 31st of next year. It's a story that hasn't made me the most conventional candidate. Just as black anger often proved counterproductive, so have these white resentments distracted attention from the real culprits of the middle class squeeze - a corporate culture rife with inside dealing, questionable accounting practices, and short-term greed; a Washington dominated by lobbyists and special interests; economic policies that favor the few over the many.
Tonight, I say to the American people, to Democrats and Republicans and Independents across this great land - enough! This moment - this election - is our chance to keep, in the 21st century, the American promise alive. Unlike Afghanistan, Iraq was a war of choice that provoked strong differences in my country and around the world.
It wasn't until after college, when I went to Chicago to work as a community organizer for a group of Christian churches, that I confronted my own spiritual dilemma. And nothing will change. This union may never be perfect, but generation after generation has shown that it can always be perfected. He does not say that he was there because of Barack Obama. But I will also go through the federal budget, line by line, eliminating programs that no longer work and making the ones we do need work better and cost less - because we cannot meet twenty-first century challenges with a twentieth century bureaucracy.
I can assure you it is not. This has bred more fear and mistrust.
I stand here today, grateful for the diversity of my heritage, aware that my parents' dreams live on in my two precious daughters. And until we stop the genocide that's being carried out in Darfur as I speak, our conscience cannot rest. As William Faulkner once wrote, "The past isn't dead and buried. It requires all Americans to realize that your dreams do not have to come at the expense of my dreams; that investing in the health, welfare, and education of black and brown and white children will ultimately help all of America prosper. People in every country should be free to choose and live their faith based upon the persuasion of the mind, heart, and soul. But we should choose the right path, not just the easy path.
Thank you, God Bless you, and God Bless the United States of America.