Obama Ipsum

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. Because that was the cheapest way to eat. We are taking concrete actions to change course.

More of you have lost your homes and even more are watching your home values plummet. And just as we keep our keep our promise to the next generation here at home, so must we keep America's promise abroad.

It's what allows us to pursue our individual dreams and yet still come together as one American family. It's that folks are hungry for change - they're hungry for something new. But if we do, I can tell you that in the next election, we'll be talking about some other distraction. So let us agree that patriotism has no party. 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. I know that for many, the face of globalization is contradictory.

We cannot ignore that we have a right and a duty to protect our borders. I'm hearing from evangelicals who may not agree with progressives on every issue but agree that poverty has no place in a world of plenty; that hate has no place in the hearts of believers; and that we all have to be good stewards of God's creations. Indeed, faith should bring us together. This is important because no development strategy can be based only upon what comes out of the ground, nor can it be sustained while young people are out of work.

America, we are better than these last eight years. 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.

Thank you, and God bless America.