Obama Ipsum

Back home, my grandmother raised their baby and went to work on a bomber assembly line. If there is a child on the south side of Chicago who can't read, that matters to me, even if it's not my child. Contrary to the claims of some of my critics, black and white, I have never been so naive as to believe that we can get beyond our racial divisions in a single election cycle, or with a single candidacy - particularly a candidacy as imperfect as my own. Now let there be no doubt. And I'll invest 150 billion dollars over the next decade in affordable, renewable sources of energy - wind power and solar power and the next generation of biofuels; an investment that will lead to new industries and five million new jobs that pay well and can't ever be outsourced. I understand those who protest that some countries have weapons that others do not.

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. Farmers and scholars; statesmen and patriots who had traveled across an ocean to escape tyranny and persecution finally made real their declaration of independence at a Philadelphia convention that lasted through the spring of 1787. 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. Now let me be clear: issues of women's equality are by no means simply an issue for Islam. On science and technology, we will launch a new fund to support technological development in Muslim-majority countries, and to help transfer ideas to the marketplace so they can create jobs.

We are a better country than this. These things we share. We seek no military bases there.

I wanted to be part of something larger. Much has been made of the fact that an African-American with the name Barack Hussein Obama could be elected President. All these things must be done in partnership.

It's a war I'm proud I opposed from the start - a war that should never have been authorized and never been waged. And when one of his chief advisors - the man who wrote his economic plan - was talking about the anxiety Americans are feeling, he said that we were just suffering from a "mental recession," and that we've become, and I quote, "a nation of whiners." 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. The sixth issue that I want to address is women's rights.

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