Obama Ipsum

People don't expect government to solve all their problems. He does not say health care or the economy. And that's what we have to restore. Let us keep that promise - that American promise - and in the words of Scripture hold firmly, without wavering, to the hope that we confess.

I learned that those things I was too weak to accomplish myself, He would accomplish with me if I placed my trust in Him. What we have already achieved gives us hope - the audacity to hope - for what we can and must achieve tomorrow. I am grateful to finish this journey with one of the finest statesmen of our time, a man at ease with everyone from world leaders to the conductors on the Amtrak train he still takes home every night. Michelle and I are only here tonight because we were given a chance at an education.

And right here in the UCC, we're hearing from God about what it means to be a welcoming church that holds on to our Christian witness. And it means taking full responsibility for own lives - by demanding more from our fathers, and spending more time with our children, and reading to them, and teaching them that while they may face challenges and discrimination in their own lives, they must never succumb to despair or cynicism; they must always believe that they can write their own destiny. This is a difficult responsibility to embrace.

In a sense, what brought me to Chicago in the first place was a hunger for some sort of meaning in my life. Among some Muslims, there is a disturbing tendency to measure one's own faith by the rejection of another's.

There was even a time when the Christian Coalition determined that its number one legislative priority was tax cuts for the rich. He does not say health care or the economy. For centuries, black people in America suffered the lash of the whip as slaves and the humiliation of segregation.

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