Obama Ipsum

And yet words on a parchment would not be enough to deliver slaves from bondage, or provide men and women of every color and creed their full rights and obligations as citizens of the United States. That together, our dreams can be one.

We can do that. It's not because John McCain doesn't care.

Did I strongly disagree with many of his political views? Absolutely - just as I'm sure many of you have heard remarks from your pastors, priests, or rabbis with which you strongly disagreed. He is a man who served his country as a U.S. Marine; who has studied and lectured at some of the finest universities and seminaries in the country, and who for over thirty years led a church that serves the community by doing God's work here on Earth - by housing the homeless, ministering to the needy, providing day care services and scholarships and prison ministries, and reaching out to those suffering from HIV/AIDS. But what my former pastor too often failed to understand is that embarking on a program of self-help also requires a belief that society can change. Now is the time to finally meet our moral obligation to provide every child a world-class education, because it will take nothing less to compete in the global economy. The people of the world can live together in peace.

They're deciding that their work, their possessions, their diversions, their sheer busyness, is not enough. 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. Board of Education, and the inferior education they provided, then and now, helps explain the pervasive achievement gap between today's black and white students.

You know, a while back, I met a young man named Shamus [Seamus?] in a V.F.W. A belief in things not seen. Last time we took up immigration reform, it failed. That promise is our greatest inheritance.

Thank you. And may God's peace be upon you.