Obama Ipsum

But I'm hopeful because I think there's an awakening taking place in America. 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. Because if you don't have any fresh ideas, then you use stale tactics to scare the voters. It was a peaceful and determined insistence upon the ideals at the center of America's founding.

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. It's a war I'm proud I opposed from the start - a war that should never have been authorized and never been waged. And there's another issue we must confront as well. We shouldn't use the obstacles we face as an excuse for cynicism.

But if we do, I can tell you that in the next election, we'll be talking about some other distraction. And when the first Muslim-American was recently elected to Congress, he took the oath to defend our Constitution using the same Holy Koran that one of our Founding Fathers - Thomas Jefferson - kept in his personal library. That commitment is at the core of the Treaty, and it must be kept for all who fully abide by it.

I learned that those things I was too weak to accomplish myself, He would accomplish with me if I placed my trust in Him. It's time for us to change America.

This year, in this election, we are called to reaffirm our values and our commitments, to hold them against a hard reality and see how we are measuring up, to the legacy of our forbearers, and the promise of future generations. The fact is that the comments that have been made and the issues that have surfaced over the last few weeks reflect the complexities of race in this country that we've never really worked through - a part of our union that we have yet to perfect. This is where we are right now. He said that our economy has made "great progress" under this President. Likewise, it is important for Western countries to avoid impeding Muslim citizens from practicing religion as they see fit - for instance, by dictating what clothes a Muslim woman should wear.

Thank you, God Bless you, and God Bless the United States of America.