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I learned that my sins could be redeemed. But we also know that government initiatives are not enough. And in exchange, I'll ask for higher standards and more accountability.
If you're working forty hours a week, you shouldn't be living in poverty. 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. The profound mistake of Reverend Wright's sermons is not that he spoke about racism in our society. What we have already achieved gives us hope - the audacity to hope - for what we can and must achieve tomorrow. The Republican nominee, John McCain, has worn the uniform of our country with bravery and distinction, and for that we owe him our gratitude and respect. This history is well known.
America! Tonight, if you feel the same energy that I do, if you feel the same urgency that I do, if you feel the same passion I do, if you feel the same hopefulness that I do - if we do what we must do, then I have no doubts that all across the country, from Florida to Oregon, from Washington to Maine, the people will rise up in November, and John Kerry will be sworn in as president, and John Edwards will be sworn in as vice president, and this country will reclaim its promise, and out of this long political darkness a brighter day will come. At times, that anger is exploited by politicians, to gin up votes along racial lines, or to make up for a politician's own failings. If John McCain wants to have a debate about who has the temperament, and judgment, to serve as the next Commander-in-Chief, that's a debate I'm ready to have. What has also been lost is our sense of common purpose - our sense of higher purpose. 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.
He was nominally a Muslim since there were a number of Muslims in the village where he was born. America does not presume to know what is best for everyone, just as we would not presume to pick the outcome of a peaceful election.
And that man is John Kerry. And if we can do that - if we can embrace a common destiny - then I believe we'll not just help bring about a more hopeful day in America, we'll not just be caring for our own souls, we'll be doing God's work here on Earth. Our government should work for us, not against us. I'll make it easier for the American people to afford these new cars.
Thank you, God Bless you, and God Bless the United States of America.