Obama Ipsum

And in exchange, I'll ask for higher standards and more accountability. Now is the time to help families with paid sick days and better family leave, because nobody in America should have to choose between keeping their jobs and caring for a sick child or ailing parent.

John Kerry believes in America. Their experience is the immigrant experience - as far as they're concerned, no one's handed them anything, they've built it from scratch. In the Republicans who never thought they'd pick up a Democratic ballot, but did. Unlike Afghanistan, Iraq was a war of choice that provoked strong differences in my country and around the world. 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.

And John Kerry believes that in a dangerous world war must be an option sometimes, but it should never be the first option. And when the Civil War was fought and our country dedicated itself to a new birth of freedom, they took on the problems of an industrializing nation - fighting the crimes against society and the sins against God that they felt were being committed in our factories and in our slums. I get it. Yet in this new age, such attitudes are self-defeating.

King delivered his prayer for our country. But they have helped shape the political landscape for at least a generation. Unlike Afghanistan, Iraq was a war of choice that provoked strong differences in my country and around the world.

I thought of the families I've met who were struggling to get by without a loved one's full income, or whose loved ones had returned with a limb missing or nerves shattered, but who still lacked long-term health benefits because they were Reservists. The victims were innocent men, women and children from America and many other nations who had done nothing to harm anybody. There is so much fear, so much mistrust.

Thank you.