Obama Ipsum

Now let me be clear. The hope of immigrants setting out for distant shores. In the Republicans who never thought they'd pick up a Democratic ballot, but did. government has gone to court to protect the right of women and girls to wear the hijab, and to punish those who would deny it. Their actions are irreconcilable with the rights of human beings, the progress of nations, and with Islam.

We are one people, all of us pledging allegiance to the stars and stripes, all of us defending the United States of America. That's why I've been fighting to expand the Earned Income Tax Credit and the minimum wage. God is still speaking.

A belief that we're all connected as one people. It is not up in heaven. What would be needed were Americans in successive generations who were willing to do their part - through protests and struggle, on the streets and in the courts, through a civil war and civil disobedience and always at great risk - to narrow that gap between the promise of our ideals and the reality of their time. And next week, we'll also hear about those occasions when he's broken with his party as evidence that he can deliver the change that we need.

Our conscience cannot rest until we not only secure our borders, but give the 12 million undocumented immigrants in this country a chance to earn their citizenship by paying a fine and waiting in line behind all those who came here legally. She poured everything she had into me.

And this restlessness - this search for meaning - is familiar to me. They saw that I knew the Scriptures and that many of the values I held and that propelled me in my work were values they shared. I don't know what Bible they're reading, but it doesn't jibe with my version. "We cannot walk alone," the preacher cried. Instead, it must be a cause for action to help the Palestinian people develop the institutions that will sustain their state; to recognize Israel's legitimacy; and to choose progress over a self-defeating focus on the past.

Thank you, and God bless America.