Obama Ipsum

More to do for the father that I met who was losing his job and choking back the tears, wondering how he would pay $4,500 a month for the drugs his son needs without the health benefits that he counted on. And we should close Guantanamo Bay and stop tolerating the torture of our enemies. I have a plan that would have already begun redeploying our troops with the goal of bringing all our combat brigades home by March 31st of next year. And it is no coincidence that countries where women are well-educated are far more likely to be prosperous.

Or, at this moment, in this election, we can come together and say, "Not this time." This time we want to talk about the crumbling schools that are stealing the future of black children and white children and Asian children and Hispanic children and Native American children. For part of what has been lost these past eight years can't just be measured by lost wages or bigger trade deficits.

But we must also admit that programs alone can't replace parents; that government can't turn off the television and make a child do her homework; that fathers must take more responsibility for providing the love and guidance their children need. These are not opinions to be debated; these are facts to be dealt with.

I've been speaking to a lot of churches recently, so it's nice to be speaking to one that's so familiar. We can play Reverend Wright's sermons on every channel, every day and talk about them from now until the election, and make the only question in this campaign whether or not the American people think that I somehow believe or sympathize with his most offensive words. She had been working to organize a mostly African-American community since the beginning of this campaign, and one day she was at a roundtable discussion where everyone went around telling their story and why they were there. America, we are better than these last eight years. It should help us, not hurt us. That is why I am committed to working with American Muslims to ensure that they can fulfill zakat.

Throughout the first year of this campaign, against all predictions to the contrary, we saw how hungry the American people were for this message of unity. And this helps explain, perhaps, my relationship with Reverend Wright. She had been working to organize a mostly African-American community since the beginning of this campaign, and one day she was at a roundtable discussion where everyone went around telling their story and why they were there. 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. Individual responsibility and mutual responsibility - that's the essence of America's promise. But I also know that human progress cannot be denied.

Thank you, and God bless America.