Obama Ipsum

If you don't, you'll be able to get the same kind of coverage that members of Congress give themselves. Let us keep that promise - that American promise - and in the words of Scripture hold firmly, without wavering, to the hope that we confess. And any nation - including Iran - should have the right to access peaceful nuclear power if it complies with its responsibilities under the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty. It is easier to start wars than to end them.

It is that fundamental belief, it is that fundamental belief, I am my brother's keeper, I am my sister's keeper that makes this country work. The Talmud tells us: "The whole of the Torah is for the purpose of promoting peace."

There is real evil and hardship and pain and suffering in the world and we should be humble in our belief that we can eliminate them. When violent extremists operate in one stretch of mountains, people are endangered across an ocean. 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 we shouldn't use our humility as an excuse for inaction. And they are a part of America, this country that I love. This union may never be perfect, but generation after generation has shown that it can always be perfected. It is where our union grows stronger.

It wasn't until after college, when I went to Chicago to work as a community organizer for a group of Christian churches, that I confronted my own spiritual dilemma. And so long as we're not doing everything in our personal and collective power to solve them, we know the conscience of our nation cannot rest. Of course, the answer to the slavery question was already embedded within our Constitution - a Constitution that had at is very core the ideal of equal citizenship under the law; a Constitution that promised its people liberty, and justice, and a union that could be and should be perfected over time. This was one of the tasks we set forth at the beginning of this campaign - to continue the long march of those who came before us, a march for a more just, more equal, more free, more caring and more prosperous America. It's that he spoke as if our society was static; as if no progress has been made; as if this country - a country that has made it possible for one of his own members to run for the highest office in the land and build a coalition of white and black; Latino and Asian, rich and poor, young and old - is still irrevocably bound to a tragic past. That's the promise we need to keep.

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