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More work to do for the workers I met in Galesburg, Ill., who are losing their union jobs at the Maytag plant that's moving to Mexico, and now are having to compete with their own children for jobs that pay seven bucks an hour. Yet what we also understand is that our values should express themselves not just through our churches or synagogues, temples or mosques; they should express themselves through our government. God is still speaking. In fact, a similar anger exists within segments of the white community. If John McCain wants to have a debate about who has the temperament, and judgment, to serve as the next Commander-in-Chief, that's a debate I'm ready to have. The second major source of tension that we need to discuss is the situation between Israelis, Palestinians and the Arab world.
So it's 1985, and I'm in Chicago, and I'm working with these churches, and with lots of laypeople who are much older than I am. They are full of dancing, clapping, screaming and shouting that may seem jarring to the untrained ear. Individual responsibility and mutual responsibility - that's the essence of America's promise. Those are mutual interests.
Our conscience can't rest so long as 37 million Americans are poor and forgotten by their leaders in Washington and by the media elites. 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. They claim that our insistence on something larger, something firmer and more honest in our public life is just a Trojan Horse for higher taxes and the abandonment of traditional values. But we will support a secure and united Iraq as a partner, and never as a patron.
So one Sunday, I put on one of the few clean jackets I had, and went over to Trinity United Church of Christ on 95th Street on the South Side of Chicago. But we cannot walk away this time. Because that was the cheapest way to eat. He does not say education or the war. She's the one who put off buying a new car or a new dress for herself so that I could have a better life.
In the Republicans who never thought they'd pick up a Democratic ballot, but did. I have unequivocally prohibited the use of torture by the United States, and I have ordered the prison at Guantanamo Bay closed by early next year.
Thank you, and God bless America.