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I've been speaking to a lot of churches recently, so it's nice to be speaking to one that's so familiar. I've gone to some of the best schools in America and lived in one of the world's poorest nations.
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. The press has scoured every exit poll for the latest evidence of racial polarization, not just in terms of white and black, but black and brown as well. That's the promise we need to keep. When John McCain said we could just "muddle through" in Afghanistan, I argued for more resources and more troops to finish the fight against the terrorists who actually attacked us on 9/11, and made clear that we must take out Osama bin Laden and his lieutenants if we have them in our sights.
More to do for the father that I met who was losing his job and choking back the tears, wondering how he would pay $4,500 a month for the drugs his son needs without the health benefits that he counted on. And God is still speaking. Like other black churches, Trinity's services are full of raucous laughter and sometimes bawdy humor. Now is the time to end this addiction, and to understand that drilling is a stop-gap measure, not a long-term solution. It is a sign of neither courage nor power to shoot rockets at sleeping children, or to blow up old women on a bus.
She was born in a town on the other side of the world, in Kansas. The day after Pearl Harbor my grandfather signed up for duty; joined Patton's army, marched across Europe. 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. Countries like Japan and South Korea grew their economies while maintaining distinct cultures.
It's a racial stalemate we've been stuck in for years. Instead, it is that American spirit - that American promise - that pushes us forward even when the path is uncertain; that binds us together in spite of our differences; that makes us fix our eye not on what is seen, but what is unseen, that better place around the bend.
Thank you, God Bless you, and God Bless the United States of America.