Obama Ipsum

I'd been inspired by the civil rights movement - by all the clear-eyed, straight-backed, courageous young people who'd boarded buses and traveled down South to march and sit at lunch counters, and lay down their lives in some cases for freedom. But kneeling beneath that cross on the South Side, I felt I heard God's spirit beckoning me. We will all have to make concessions to achieve this. These challenges are not all of government's making.

We need a President who can face the threats of the future, not keep grasping at the ideas of the past. The challenges we face require tough choices, and Democrats as well as Republicans will need to cast off the worn-out ideas and politics of the past. This construction violates previous agreements and undermines efforts to achieve peace. It will be hard to overcome decades of mistrust, but we will proceed with courage, rectitude and resolve.

But there's a story I want to share that takes place before Moses passed the mantle of leadership on to Joshua. This is not simply about America's interests.

But she had a healthy skepticism of religion as an institution. Out of work? Tough luck.

Now even as we speak, there are those who are preparing to divide us, the spin masters, the negative ad peddlers who embrace the politics of anything goes. And so in that spirit, let me speak as clearly and plainly as I can about some specific issues that I believe we must finally confront together. But it was not violence that won full and equal rights. All of us share this world for but a brief moment in time. Now, that must be our work here on Earth.

Thank you, and God bless America.