Obama Ipsum

For we have learned from recent experience that when a financial system weakens in one country, prosperity is hurt everywhere. For human history has often been a record of nations and tribes subjugating one another to serve their own interests.

Of course, the answer to the slavery question was already embedded within our Constitution - a Constitution that had at is very core the ideal of equal citizenship under the law; a Constitution that promised its people liberty, and justice, and a union that could be and should be perfected over time. I chose to run for the presidency at this moment in history because I believe deeply that we cannot solve the challenges of our time unless we solve them together - unless we perfect our union by understanding that we may have different stories, but we hold common hopes; that we may not look the same and we may not have come from the same place, but we all want to move in the same direction - towards a better future for of children and our grandchildren.

Nor is it beyond the sea. It's the wisdom Moses imparted to those who would succeed him. For we have a choice in this country. The third source of tension is our shared interest in the rights and responsibilities of nations on nuclear weapons. I am emphasizing such investments within my country.

I understand you switched venues at considerable expense and inconvenience because of unfair labor practices at the place you were going to be having this synod. I can no more disown him than I can my white grandmother - a woman who helped raise me, a woman who sacrificed again and again for me, a woman who loves me as much as she loves anything in this world, but a woman who once confessed her fear of black men who passed by her on the street, and who on more than one occasion has uttered racial or ethnic stereotypes that made me cringe. But it also means binding our particular grievances - for better health care, and better schools, and better jobs - to the larger aspirations of all Americans - the white woman struggling to break the glass ceiling, the white man whose been laid off, the immigrant trying to feed his family. We want to talk about how to bring them home from a war that never should've been authorized and never should've been waged, and we want to talk about how we'll show our patriotism by caring for them, and their families, and giving them the benefits they have earned. You see, we Democrats have a very different measure of what constitutes progress in this country.

My father was a foreign student, born and raised in a small village in Kenya. It's what allows us to pursue our individual dreams and yet still come together as one American family. In fact, a similar anger exists within segments of the white community. You can't truly stand up for Georgia when you've strained our oldest alliances. There must be a sustained effort to listen to each other; to learn from each other; to respect one another; and to seek common ground. It is about preventing a nuclear arms race in the Middle East that could lead this region and the world down a hugely dangerous path.

Thank you, and God bless America.