Obama Ipsum

And they want that choice. Part of it's because of the so-called leaders of the Christian Right, who've been all too eager to exploit what divides us. This is where we are right now.

It's that we all have it within our power to make this a better world. And we are here because we love this country too much to let the next four years look like the last eight. On November 4th, we must stand up and say: "Eight is enough." And in the weeks ahead, I look forward to debating them with John McCain. Many wait in refugee camps in the West Bank, Gaza, and neighboring lands for a life of peace and security that they have never been able to lead. The question, now, is not what Iran is against, but rather what future it wants to build.

And that man is John Kerry. Wright deliver a sermon called "The Audacity of Hope." And during the course of that sermon, he introduced me to someone named Jesus Christ. God is still speaking. More of you have lost your homes and even more are watching your home values plummet. As a young man, I worked in Chicago communities where many found dignity and peace in their Muslim faith.

Now don't get me wrong. They cheered on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial when Dr. 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. It's time for us to change America. They claim that our insistence on something larger, something firmer and more honest in our public life is just a Trojan Horse for higher taxes and the abandonment of traditional values. I have come here to seek a new beginning between the United States and Muslims around the world; one based upon mutual interest and mutual respect; and one based upon the truth that America and Islam are not exclusive, and need not be in competition.

He's still speaking to our Catholic friends - who are holding up a consistent ethic of life that goes beyond abortion - one that includes a respect for life and dignity whether it's in Iraq, in poor neighborhoods, in African villages or even on death row. It's an idea that's often forgotten or dismissed in cynical times. We did not go by choice, we went because of necessity. Today, America has a dual responsibility: to help Iraq forge a better future - and to leave Iraq to Iraqis. All these things must be done in partnership.

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