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More to do for the father that I met who was losing his job and choking back the tears, wondering how he would pay $4,500 a month for the drugs his son needs without the health benefits that he counted on. And it's a testament to what we can achieve when good people with strong convictions stand up for their beliefs. That history helps explain the wealth and income gap between black and white, and the concentrated pockets of poverty that persists in so many of today's urban and rural communities. Israel must also live up to its obligations to ensure that Palestinians can live, and work, and develop their society.
Their experience is the immigrant experience - as far as they're concerned, no one's handed them anything, they've built it from scratch. Not even close.
It came about as a choice, and not an epiphany. But what we know - what we have seen - is that America can change. 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. Let me also address the issue of Iraq. The question, now, is not what Iran is against, but rather what future it wants to build. That is why we are forging service projects in America that bring together Christians, Muslims, and Jews.
John Kerry knows this. My father, who I didn't know, returned to Kenya when I was just two. She had this enormous capacity for wonder, and lived by the Golden Rule. And Ashley said that when she was nine years old, her mother got cancer.
He's still speaking to our Catholic friends - who are holding up a consistent ethic of life that goes beyond abortion - one that includes a respect for life and dignity whether it's in Iraq, in poor neighborhoods, in African villages or even on death row. It's that he spoke as if our society was static; as if no progress has been made; as if this country - a country that has made it possible for one of his own members to run for the highest office in the land and build a coalition of white and black; Latino and Asian, rich and poor, young and old - is still irrevocably bound to a tragic past. And today, as my call for a time frame to remove our troops from Iraq has been echoed by the Iraqi government and even the Bush Administration, even after we learned that Iraq has a $79 billion surplus while we're wallowing in deficits, John McCain stands alone in his stubborn refusal to end a misguided war.
Thank you. And may God's peace be upon you.