Obama Ipsum

The most presidential lorem ipsum in history.

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His father - my grandfather - was a cook, a domestic servant to the British. My parents shared not only an improbable love, they shared an abiding faith in the possibilities of this nation. In my first book, Dreams From My Father, I described the experience of my first service at Trinity: It means continuing to insist on a full measure of justice in every aspect of American life. It is not enough to give health care to the sick, or jobs to the jobless, or education to our children.

The challenges we face require tough choices, and Democrats as well as Republicans will need to cast off the worn-out ideas and politics of the past. 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.

That legacy of defeat was passed on to future generations - those young men and increasingly young women who we see standing on street corners or languishing in our prisons, without hope or prospects for the future. And it is my first duty as President to protect the American people.

We can accept a politics that breeds division, and conflict, and cynicism. That won't keep America safe.

And occasionally it finds voice in the church on Sunday morning, in the pulpit and in the pews. Not this time. It was Islam - at places like Al-Azhar University - that carried the light of learning through so many centuries, paving the way for Europe's Renaissance and Enlightenment.

Thank you very much everybody.