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It is not enough to give health care to the sick, or jobs to the jobless, or education to our children. Senator McCain likes to talk about judgment, but really, what does it say about your judgment when you think George Bush has been right more than ninety percent of the time? I don't know about you, but I'm not ready to take a ten percent chance on change. She's the one who put off buying a new car or a new dress for herself so that I could have a better life. Over seven years ago, the United States pursued al Qaeda and the Taliban with broad international support.
There was even a time when the Christian Coalition determined that its number one legislative priority was tax cuts for the rich. Born into poverty? Pull yourself up by your own bootstraps - even if you don't have boots. Because I've lived it. "And as we walk, we must make the pledge that we shall always march ahead. We cannot turn back." Around the world, we can turn dialogue into Interfaith service, so bridges between peoples lead to action - whether it is combating malaria in Africa, or providing relief after a natural disaster.
These challenges are not all of government's making. But the failure to respond is a direct result of a broken politics in Washington and the failed policies of George W. Bush. Our universities and our culture are the envy of the world, but that's not what keeps the world coming to our shores.
It's a promise that says the market should reward drive and innovation and generate growth, but that businesses should live up to their responsibilities to create American jobs, look out for American workers, and play by the rules of the road. We did not go by choice, we went because of necessity. But we have a responsibility to join together on behalf of the world we seek - a world where extremists no longer threaten our people, and American troops have come home; a world where Israelis and Palestinians are each secure in a state of their own, and nuclear energy is used for peaceful purposes; a world where governments serve their citizens, and the rights of all God's children are respected.
Did I know him to be an occasionally fierce critic of American domestic and foreign policy? Of course. But it does find voice in the barbershop or around the kitchen table. More recently, tension has been fed by colonialism that denied rights and opportunities to many Muslims, and a Cold War in which Muslim-majority countries were too often treated as proxies without regard to their own aspirations. And I believe that America holds within her the truth that regardless of race, religion, or station in life, all of us share common aspirations - to live in peace and security; to get an education and to work with dignity; to love our families, our communities, and our God. They have killed people of different faiths - more than any other, they have killed Muslims.
Thank you. And may God's peace be upon you.