Obama Ipsum

John Kerry believes in the Constitutional freedoms that have made our country the envy of the world, and he will never sacrifice our basic liberties, nor use faith as a wedge to divide us. They held vigils across this country when four little girls were killed in the 16th Street Baptist Church. Because it's not who we are. Of course, recognizing our common humanity is only the beginning of our task. Rather than remain trapped in the past, I have made it clear to Iran's leaders and people that my country is prepared to move forward.

And next week, we'll also hear about those occasions when he's broken with his party as evidence that he can deliver the change that we need. Because in an economy like this, the last thing we should do is raise taxes on the middle-class. As a boy, I spent several years in Indonesia and heard the call of the azaan at the break of dawn and the fall of dusk.

And that man is John Kerry. John Kerry calls on us to hope. That anger may not get expressed in public, in front of white co-workers or white friends. And then another one. The men and women who serve in our battlefields may be Democrats and Republicans and Independents, but they have fought together and bled together and some died together under the same proud flag.

The questions I had didn't magically disappear. And when the Civil War was fought and our country dedicated itself to a new birth of freedom, they took on the problems of an industrializing nation - fighting the crimes against society and the sins against God that they felt were being committed in our factories and in our slums. We all put our country first. Denying that fact is baseless, ignorant, and hateful.

God is still speaking. Because I've seen it. That together, our dreams can be one.

God bless you.