Obama Ipsum

Our pride is based on a very simple premise, summed up in a declaration made over two hundred years ago: We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal. Two hundred and twenty one years ago, in a hall that still stands across the street, a group of men gathered and, with these simple words, launched America's improbable experiment in democracy. This time we want to reject the cynicism that tells us that these kids can't learn; that those kids who don't look like us are somebody else's problem. And when one of his chief advisors - the man who wrote his economic plan - was talking about the anxiety Americans are feeling, he said that we were just suffering from a "mental recession," and that we've become, and I quote, "a nation of whiners."

A belief that there are better days ahead. But for all those who scratched and clawed their way to get a piece of the American Dream, there were many who didn't make it - those who were ultimately defeated, in one way or another, by discrimination. But it is where we start. Moreover, freedom in America is indivisible from the freedom to practice one's religion.

And until we stop the genocide that's being carried out in Darfur as I speak, our conscience cannot rest. But race is an issue that I believe this nation cannot afford to ignore right now. They have affiliates in many countries and are trying to expand their reach.

It means continuing to insist on a full measure of justice in every aspect of American life. She sought out allies in her fight against injustice. It is agonizing for America to lose our young men and women.

He does not say that he was there because of Barack Obama. It will require a renewed sense of responsibility from each of us to recover what John F. Hamas does have support among some Palestinians, but they also have responsibilities.

God bless you.