The most presidential lorem ipsum in history.
I was raised with the help of a white grandfather who survived a Depression to serve in Patton's Army during World War II and a white grandmother who worked on a bomber assembly line at Fort Leavenworth while he was overseas. That anger is not always productive; indeed, all too often it distracts attention from solving real problems; it keeps us from squarely facing our own complicity in our condition, and prevents the African-American community from forging the alliances it needs to bring about real change.
I believe that we have a righteous wind at our backs and that as we stand on the crossroads of history, we can make the right choices, and meet the challenges that face us. Not even close. You don't protect Israel and deter Iran just by talking tough in Washington. I am a Christian, but my father came from a Kenyan family that includes generations of Muslims. This is important because no development strategy can be based only upon what comes out of the ground, nor can it be sustained while young people are out of work.
Of course, recognizing our common humanity is only the beginning of our task. For we have learned from recent experience that when a financial system weakens in one country, prosperity is hurt everywhere. It is easy to point fingers - for Palestinians to point to the displacement brought by Israel's founding, and for Israelis to point to the constant hostility and attacks throughout its history from within its borders as well as beyond. The Arab-Israeli conflict should no longer be used to distract the people of Arab nations from other problems.
They cheered on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial when Dr. And Ashley said that when she was nine years old, her mother got cancer. 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. Violent extremists have exploited these tensions in a small but potent minority of Muslims. Fear that because of modernity we will lose of control over our economic choices, our politics, and most importantly our identities - those things we most cherish about our communities, our families, our traditions, and our faith.
We are the party of Roosevelt. We seek no military bases there.
Thank you.