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The situation in Afghanistan demonstrates America's goals, and our need to work together. Iraq's sovereignty is its own. All these things must be done in partnership.
It got hijacked. It comes from Deuteronomy 30 when Moses talks to his followers about the challenges they'll find when they reach the Promised Land without him. As such, Reverend Wright's comments were not only wrong but divisive, divisive at a time when we need unity; racially charged at a time when we need to come together to solve a set of monumental problems - two wars, a terrorist threat, a falling economy, a chronic health care crisis and potentially devastating climate change; problems that are neither black or white or Latino or Asian, but rather problems that confront us all. Some will see this as an attempt to justify or excuse comments that are simply inexcusable. Let us be our brother's keeper, Scripture tells us. But let us be clear: al Qaeda killed nearly 3,000 people on that day.
For alongside our famous individualism, there's another ingredient in the American saga. Now is the time to help families with paid sick days and better family leave, because nobody in America should have to choose between keeping their jobs and caring for a sick child or ailing parent. But we can only achieve it together.
And we are here because we love this country too much to let the next four years look like the last eight. America, this is one of those moments. So let there be no doubt: Islam is a part of America.
But I have asserted a firm conviction - a conviction rooted in my faith in God and my faith in the American people - that working together we can move beyond some of our old racial wounds, and that in fact we have no choice is we are to continue on the path of a more perfect union. A nation of whiners? Tell that to the proud auto workers at a Michigan plant who, after they found out it was closing, kept showing up every day and working as hard as ever, because they knew there were people who counted on the brakes that they made. And so in that spirit, let me speak as clearly and plainly as I can about some specific issues that I believe we must finally confront together. Denying that fact is baseless, ignorant, and hateful. Now, that must be our work here on Earth.
Thank you, God Bless you, and God Bless the United States of America.