Obama Ipsum

We shouldn't use the obstacles we face as an excuse for cynicism. Well it's time for them to own their failure. The Internet and television can bring knowledge and information, but also offensive sexuality and mindless violence.

But she had a healthy skepticism of religion as an institution. And this helps explain, perhaps, my relationship with Reverend Wright. This time we want to talk about how the lines in the Emergency Room are filled with whites and blacks and Hispanics who do not have health care; who don't have the power on their own to overcome the special interests in Washington, but who can take them on if we do it together.

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. Islam is not part of the problem in combating violent extremism - it is an important part of promoting peace. Around the world, the Jewish people were persecuted for centuries, and anti-Semitism in Europe culminated in an unprecedented Holocaust. At the same time, Israelis must acknowledge that just as Israel's right to exist cannot be denied, neither can Palestine's.

Yes, we must provide more ladders to success for young men who fall into lives of crime and despair. That's not the judgment we need.

For part of what has been lost these past eight years can't just be measured by lost wages or bigger trade deficits. This is not simply about America's interests.

Thank you, and God bless America.