Obama Ipsum

Again and again, we've seen him make tough choices when easier ones were available. We're not going to agree on everything, but we can disagree without being disagreeable. Like other black churches, Trinity's services are full of raucous laughter and sometimes bawdy humor. And although she can no longer travel, I know that she's watching tonight, and that tonight is her night as well. America, now is not the time for small plans. For we have learned from recent experience that when a financial system weakens in one country, prosperity is hurt everywhere.

From his heroic service to Vietnam, to his years as a prosecutor and lieutenant governor, through two decades in the United States Senate, he has devoted himself to this country. And John Kerry believes that in a dangerous world war must be an option sometimes, but it should never be the first option.

His father - my grandfather - was a cook, a domestic servant to the British. But it does find voice in the barbershop or around the kitchen table. That's the change we need right now. Change means a tax code that doesn't reward the lobbyists who wrote it, but the American workers and small businesses who deserve it. That is the responsibility we have to one another as human beings. That does not mean we should ignore sources of tension.

She was born in a town on the other side of the world, in Kansas. If there is a child on the south side of Chicago who can't read, that matters to me, even if it's not my child. But what we know - what we have seen - is that America can change. But she didn't. And in the weeks ahead, I look forward to debating them with John McCain.

They must be pursued - and they must be defeated. It is not up in heaven. America respects the right of all peaceful and law-abiding voices to be heard around the world, even if we disagree with them. Many more are simply skeptical that real change can occur.

Thank you very much everybody.