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So it's 1985, and I'm in Chicago, and I'm working with these churches, and with lots of laypeople who are much older than I am. It's a journey that takes us back to our nation's founding, when none other than a UCC church inspired the Boston Tea Party and helped bring an Empire to its knees. If you don't have a record to run on, then you paint your opponent as someone people should run from. That promise is our greatest inheritance. Although I believe that the Iraqi people are ultimately better off without the tyranny of Saddam Hussein, I also believe that events in Iraq have reminded America of the need to use diplomacy and build international consensus to resolve our problems whenever possible. Too many tears have flowed.
John Kerry believes in energy independence, so we aren't held hostage to the profits of oil companies, or the sabotage of foreign oil fields. Hall in East Moline, Ill.. We will, however, relentlessly confront violent extremists who pose a grave threat to our security. Likewise, many Israelis recognize the need for a Palestinian state.
The day after Pearl Harbor my grandfather signed up for duty; joined Patton's army, marched across Europe. At every opportunity, they've told evangelical Christians that Democrats disrespect their values and dislike their Church, while suggesting to the rest of the country that religious Americans care only about issues like abortion and gay marriage; school prayer and intelligent design. It comes from Deuteronomy 30 when Moses talks to his followers about the challenges they'll find when they reach the Promised Land without him. And when I hear a woman talk about the difficulties of starting her own business, I think about my grandmother, who worked her way up from the secretarial pool to middle-management, despite years of being passed over for promotions because she was a woman. And that's what we have to restore. In the young people who voted for the first time, and in those who got involved again after a very long time.
The skeptical bent of my mind didn't suddenly vanish. It comes from Deuteronomy 30 when Moses talks to his followers about the challenges they'll find when they reach the Promised Land without him. And when I hear a woman talk about the difficulties of starting her own business, I think about my grandmother, who worked her way up from the secretarial pool to middle-management, despite years of being passed over for promotions because she was a woman. These things we share.
It's a journey that takes us back to our nation's founding, when none other than a UCC church inspired the Boston Tea Party and helped bring an Empire to its knees. We the people, in order to form a more perfect union." A nation of whiners? Tell that to the proud auto workers at a Michigan plant who, after they found out it was closing, kept showing up every day and working as hard as ever, because they knew there were people who counted on the brakes that they made. Change happens because the American people demand it - because they rise up and insist on new ideas and new leadership, a new politics for a new time. We will, however, relentlessly confront violent extremists who pose a grave threat to our security. There is also one rule that lies at the heart of every religion - that we do unto others as we would have them do unto us.
Thank you very much everybody.