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As William Faulkner once wrote, "The past isn't dead and buried. Now let there be no doubt. You have shown what history teaches us - that at defining moments like this one, the change we need doesn't come from Washington.
I have made a solemn pledge that I will sign a universal health care bill into law by the end of my first term as president that will cover every American and cut the cost of a typical family's premiums by up to $2500 a year. More of you have lost your homes and even more are watching your home values plummet. The victims were innocent men, women and children from America and many other nations who had done nothing to harm anybody. 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. But we should choose the right path, not just the easy path. We have the power to make the world we seek, but only if we have the courage to make a new beginning, keeping in mind what has been written.
From Willow Creek to the 'emerging church,' from the Southern Baptist Convention to the National Association of Evangelicals, folks are realizing that the four walls of the church are too small for a big God.God is still speaking. Because for two hundred and thirty two years, at each moment when that promise was in jeopardy, ordinary men and women - students and soldiers, farmers and teachers, nurses and janitors - found the courage to keep it alive. And I'll invest 150 billion dollars over the next decade in affordable, renewable sources of energy - wind power and solar power and the next generation of biofuels; an investment that will lead to new industries and five million new jobs that pay well and can't ever be outsourced.
And it's around this time that some pastors I was working with came up to me and asked if I was a member of a church. And yet, to wish away the resentments of white Americans, to label them as misguided or even racist, without recognizing they are grounded in legitimate concerns - this too widens the racial divide, and blocks the path to understanding.
But I've got news for them, too. It requires all Americans to realize that your dreams do not have to come at the expense of my dreams; that investing in the health, welfare, and education of black and brown and white children will ultimately help all of America prosper.
Thank you very much everybody.