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His values - and his record - affirm what is best in us. Because whether it's poverty or racism, the uninsured or the unemployed, war or peace, the challenges we face today are not simply technical problems in search of the perfect ten-point plan. These are the Americans that I know. It's because John McCain doesn't get it. You make a big election about small things. These things we share.
They saw that I knew the Scriptures and that many of the values I held and that propelled me in my work were values they shared. We meet at one of those defining moments - a moment when our nation is at war, our economy is in turmoil, and the American promise has been threatened once more. In the young people who voted for the first time, and in those who got involved again after a very long time.
Her father worked on oil rigs and farms through most of the Depression. But if we do, I can tell you that in the next election, we'll be talking about some other distraction.
Now even as we speak, there are those who are preparing to divide us, the spin masters, the negative ad peddlers who embrace the politics of anything goes. Our conscience can't rest so long as 37 million Americans are poor and forgotten by their leaders in Washington and by the media elites. Of course, the answer to the slavery question was already embedded within our Constitution - a Constitution that had at is very core the ideal of equal citizenship under the law; a Constitution that promised its people liberty, and justice, and a union that could be and should be perfected over time. America, now is not the time for small plans. We may not agree on abortion, but surely we can agree on reducing the number of unwanted pregnancies in this country.
Her father worked on oil rigs and farms through most of the Depression. Four years ago, I stood before you and told you my story - of the brief union between a young man from Kenya and a young woman from Kansas who weren't well-off or well-known, but shared a belief that in America, their son could achieve whatever he put his mind to. You don't protect Israel and deter Iran just by talking tough in Washington. So don't tell me that Democrats won't defend this country. But what the people heard instead - people of every creed and color, from every walk of life - is that in America, our destiny is inextricably linked. I know there are many - Muslim and non-Muslim - who question whether we can forge this new beginning.
Thank you, and God bless America.