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In that time, I've had the chance to talk with Americans all across this country. And when the Civil War was fought and our country dedicated itself to a new birth of freedom, they took on the problems of an industrializing nation - fighting the crimes against society and the sins against God that they felt were being committed in our factories and in our slums. I have made a solemn pledge that I will sign a universal health care bill into law by the end of my first term as president that will cover every American and cut the cost of a typical family's premiums by up to $2500 a year. Washington's been talking about our oil addiction for the last thirty years, and John McCain has been there for twenty-six of them. All of us share this world for but a brief moment in time.
They are both passed away now. John Edwards calls on us to hope. She had this enormous capacity for wonder, and lived by the Golden Rule. And so this will be a difficult debate next week. Each nation gives life to this principle in its own way, grounded in the traditions of its own people. The same is true for the astonishing progress within Muslim-majority countries from Kuala Lumpur to Dubai.
My father was a foreign student, born and raised in a small village in Kenya. John Kerry believes in the Constitutional freedoms that have made our country the envy of the world, and he will never sacrifice our basic liberties, nor use faith as a wedge to divide us. Politicians routinely exploited fears of crime for their own electoral ends. And I will not settle for an America where some kids don't have that chance. If you don't have a record to run on, then you paint your opponent as someone people should run from.
But they sense, deep in their bones, that with just a slight change in priorities, we can make sure that every child in America has a decent shot at life, and that the doors of opportunity remain open to all. Our conscience cannot rest so long as nearly 45 million Americans don't have health insurance and the millions more who do are going bankrupt trying to pay for it. There is a young, twenty-three year old white woman named Ashley Baia who organized for our campaign in Florence, South Carolina. But the record's clear: John McCain has voted with George Bush ninety percent of the time. "We cannot walk alone," the preacher cried. That is the world we seek.
For alongside our famous individualism, there's another ingredient in the American saga. That anger is not always productive; indeed, all too often it distracts attention from solving real problems; it keeps us from squarely facing our own complicity in our condition, and prevents the African-American community from forging the alliances it needs to bring about real change. They have not served a Red America or a Blue America - they have served the United States of America. Instead, they overlap, and share common principles - principles of justice and progress; tolerance and the dignity of all human beings. We have the power to make the world we seek, but only if we have the courage to make a new beginning, keeping in mind what has been written.
God bless you.