Obama Ipsum

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 it is my first duty as President to protect the American people. This is not simply about America's interests.

But Moses says: What I am commanding you is not too difficult for you or beyond your reach. They all have different stories and reasons. And as so many generations have come to realize over the course of the two-hundred and twenty one years since a band of patriots signed that document in Philadelphia, that is where the perfection begins. America, we cannot turn back. Palestinians must abandon violence.

And the lack of basic services in so many urban black neighborhoods - parks for kids to play in, police walking the beat, regular garbage pick-up and building code enforcement - all helped create a cycle of violence, blight and neglect that continue to haunt us. The first issue that we have to confront is violent extremism in all of its forms.

This is the reality in which Reverend Wright and other African-Americans of his generation grew up. And I've seen it in this campaign. I've seen it in the workers who would rather cut their hours back a day than see their friends lose their jobs, in the soldiers who re-enlist after losing a limb, in the good neighbors who take a stranger in when a hurricane strikes and the floodwaters rise.

And so they need an assurance that somebody out there cares about them, is listening to them - that they are not just destined to travel down that long road toward nothingness. Perhaps somebody told her along the way that the source of her mother's problems were blacks who were on welfare and too lazy to work, or Hispanics who were coming into the country illegally. And throughout history, Islam has demonstrated through words and deeds the possibilities of religious tolerance and racial equality.

Thank you, God Bless you, and God Bless the United States of America.