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In South Carolina, where the Confederate Flag still flies, we built a powerful coalition of African Americans and white Americans. As a student of history, I also know civilization's debt to Islam. We seek no military bases there.
And just as Lieutenant Kerry did not hesitate to risk his life to protect the men who served with him in Vietnam, President Kerry will not hesitate one moment to use our military might to keep America safe and secure. I learned that everyone's got a sacred story when you take the time to listen. To the Joshua generation, these challenges seem momentous - and they are. I've seen it in Washington, when we worked across party lines to open up government and hold lobbyists more accountable, to give better care for our veterans and keep nuclear weapons out of terrorist hands. Not with an economy to fix and cities to rebuild and farms to save. But I am convinced that in order to move forward, we must say openly the things we hold in our hearts, and that too often are said only behind closed doors.
And I found that I recognized in these folks a part of myself. That is why we will honor our agreement with Iraq's democratically-elected government to remove combat troops from Iraqi cities by July, and to remove all our troops from Iraq by 2012.
Her father worked on oil rigs and farms through most of the Depression. That they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights. At every opportunity, they've told evangelical Christians that Democrats disrespect their values and dislike their Church, while suggesting to the rest of the country that religious Americans care only about issues like abortion and gay marriage; school prayer and intelligent design. We can tackle race only as spectacle - as we did in the OJ trial - or in the wake of tragedy, as we did in the aftermath of Katrina - or as fodder for the nightly news.
Louis, and thousands more like her, who has the grades, has the drive, has the will, but doesn't have the money to go to college. So doing the Lord's work is a thread that's run through our politics since the very beginning. I don't know what Bible they're reading, but it doesn't jibe with my version. In my first book, Dreams From My Father, I described the experience of my first service at Trinity: This has bred more fear and mistrust. This is important because no development strategy can be based only upon what comes out of the ground, nor can it be sustained while young people are out of work.
Thank you, and God bless America.