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For we have a choice in this country. We measure progress by how many people can find a job that pays the mortgage; whether you can put a little extra money away at the end of each month so you can someday watch your child receive her college diploma. Finally, I want to discuss economic development and opportunity.
And yet words on a parchment would not be enough to deliver slaves from bondage, or provide men and women of every color and creed their full rights and obligations as citizens of the United States. I'll recruit an army of new teachers, and pay them higher salaries and give them more support. So I've got news for you, John McCain.
God is still speaking. He strengthened my faith, officiated my wedding, and baptized my children. A lack of economic opportunity among black men, and the shame and frustration that came from not being able to provide for one's family, contributed to the erosion of black families - a problem that welfare policies for many years may have worsened.
They know we can do better. They're ready to turn the page on the old politics and the old policies - whether it's the war in Iraq or the health care crisis we're in, or a school system that's leaving too many kids behind despite the slogans. It got hijacked. We need a President who can face the threats of the future, not keep grasping at the ideas of the past. When one nation pursues a nuclear weapon, the risk of nuclear attack rises for all nations. But we will support a secure and united Iraq as a partner, and never as a patron.
I stand here knowing that my story is part of the larger American story, that I owe a debt to all of those who came before me, and that, in no other country on earth, is my story even possible. And as I listened to him explain why he'd enlisted, the absolute faith he had in our country and its leaders, his devotion to duty and service, I thought this young man was all that any of us might hope for in a child. We shouldn't use the obstacles we face as an excuse for cynicism. No, the word is very near. For the African-American community, that path means embracing the burdens of our past without becoming victims of our past.
Thank you very much everybody.