Obama Ipsum

We can pounce on some gaffe by a Hillary supporter as evidence that she's playing the race card, or we can speculate on whether white men will all flock to John McCain in the general election regardless of his policies. It's a promise that says each of us has the freedom to make of our own lives what we will, but that we also have the obligation to treat each other with dignity and respect. That's why we're partnering with a coalition of forty-six countries. There will be many issues to discuss between our two countries, and we are willing to move forward without preconditions on the basis of mutual respect.

Change means a tax code that doesn't reward the lobbyists who wrote it, but the American workers and small businesses who deserve it. You don't defeat a terrorist network that operates in eighty countries by occupying Iraq.

But my grandfather had larger dreams for his son. Not this time. The reality of gun ownership may be different for hunters in rural Ohio than for those plagued by gang-violence in Cleveland, but don't tell me we can't uphold the Second Amendment while keeping AK-47s out of the hands of criminals. We cannot walk alone.

But I also get the sense that there's a hunger that's deeper than that - a hunger that goes beyond any single cause or issue. We cannot ignore that we have a right and a duty to protect our borders. In fact, it isn't even past." We do not need to recite here the history of racial injustice in this country. This is the reality in which Reverend Wright and other African-Americans of his generation grew up. This is where we are right now.

But I think they also sensed that a part of me remained removed and detached - that I was an observer in their midst. It was stained by this nation's original sin of slavery, a question that divided the colonies and brought the convention to a stalemate until the founders chose to allow the slave trade to continue for at least twenty more years, and to leave any final resolution to future generations.

Thank you.