Obama Ipsum

We measure the strength of our economy not by the number of billionaires we have or the profits of the Fortune 500, but by whether someone with a good idea can take a risk and start a new business, or whether the waitress who lives on tips can take a day off to look after a sick kid without losing her job - an economy that honors the dignity of work. This tolerance is essential for religion to thrive, but it is being challenged in many different ways.

His father - my grandfather - was a cook, a domestic servant to the British. 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. For we have a choice in this country. But I will also go through the federal budget, line by line, eliminating programs that no longer work and making the ones we do need work better and cost less - because we cannot meet twenty-first century challenges with a twentieth century bureaucracy.

His father - my grandfather - was a cook, a domestic servant to the British. But they sense, deep in their bones, that with just a slight change in priorities, we can make sure that every child in America has a decent shot at life, and that the doors of opportunity remain open to all. It's that folks are hungry for change - they're hungry for something new. Palestinians must abandon violence.

I'm talking about something more substantial. The UCC is still listening. troops and civilians.

I'm not talking about blind optimism here - the almost willful ignorance that thinks unemployment will go away if we just don't think about it, or the health care crisis will solve itself if we just ignore it. He does not say that he was there because of Barack Obama.

Thank you.