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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. At every opportunity, they've told evangelical Christians that Democrats disrespect their values and dislike their Church, while suggesting to the rest of the country that religious Americans care only about issues like abortion and gay marriage; school prayer and intelligent design. That is one option. If you have health care, my plan will lower your premiums. More recently, tension has been fed by colonialism that denied rights and opportunities to many Muslims, and a Cold War in which Muslim-majority countries were too often treated as proxies without regard to their own aspirations. The same is true for the astonishing progress within Muslim-majority countries from Kuala Lumpur to Dubai.
The hope of immigrants setting out for distant shores. And today, we import triple the amount of oil as the day that Senator McCain took office.
I suppose the politically safe thing would be to move on from this episode and just hope that it fades into the woodwork. For the African-American community, that path means embracing the burdens of our past without becoming victims of our past. "I'm here because of Ashley." By itself, that single moment of recognition between that young white girl and that old black man is not enough. We are the party of Kennedy. There is also one rule that lies at the heart of every religion - that we do unto others as we would have them do unto us.
And until we stop the genocide that's being carried out in Darfur as I speak, our conscience cannot rest. Like other black churches, Trinity's services are full of raucous laughter and sometimes bawdy humor. When I listen to another worker tell me that his factory has shut down, I remember all those men and women on the South Side of Chicago who I stood by and fought for two decades ago after the local steel plant closed.
But they have helped shape the political landscape for at least a generation. But she didn't. But what the people heard instead - people of every creed and color, from every walk of life - is that in America, our destiny is inextricably linked. The first issue that we have to confront is violent extremism in all of its forms. The fourth issue that I will address is democracy.
Thank you, and God bless America.