Obama Ipsum

Tonight is a particular honor for me because - let's face it - my presence on this stage is pretty unlikely. And fellow Americans, Democrats, Republicans, Independents - I say to you tonight: we have more work to do. They must be pursued - and they must be defeated. Violent extremists have exploited these tensions in a small but potent minority of Muslims.

And it's a lesson we need to remember today - as members of another Joshua generation. They are full of dancing, clapping, screaming and shouting that may seem jarring to the untrained ear. This country is more generous than one where a man in Indiana has to pack up the equipment he's worked on for twenty years and watch it shipped off to China, and then chokes up as he explains how he felt like a failure when he went home to tell his family the news. The Arab-Israeli conflict should no longer be used to distract the people of Arab nations from other problems. Freedom of religion is central to the ability of peoples to live together.

I am the son of a black man from Kenya and a white woman from Kansas. Now is the time for Palestinians to focus on what they can build. But I also know that human progress cannot be denied.

I have brothers, sisters, nieces, nephews, uncles and cousins, of every race and every hue, scattered across three continents, and for as long as I live, I will never forget that in no other country on Earth is my story even possible. The situation in Afghanistan demonstrates America's goals, and our need to work together. I have unequivocally prohibited the use of torture by the United States, and I have ordered the prison at Guantanamo Bay closed by early next year.

Let's come together - Protestant and Catholic, Muslim and Hindu and Jew, believer and non-believer alike. But it is where we start. Now, I don't believe that Senator McCain doesn't care what's going on in the lives of Americans. I am grateful for your hospitality, and the hospitality of the people of Egypt. Since the Islamic Revolution, Iran has played a role in acts of hostage-taking and violence against U.S. That commitment is at the core of the Treaty, and it must be kept for all who fully abide by it.

Thank you very much everybody.