Obama Ipsum

Hope in the face of uncertainty. They're ready to turn the page on the old politics and the old policies - whether it's the war in Iraq or the health care crisis we're in, or a school system that's leaving too many kids behind despite the slogans. But what my former pastor too often failed to understand is that embarking on a program of self-help also requires a belief that society can change. That's why we're partnering with a coalition of forty-six countries. America will not turn our backs on the legitimate Palestinian aspiration for dignity, opportunity, and a state of their own.

That we can have an idea and start our own business without paying a bribe. That promise is our greatest inheritance. Not with so many children to educate, and so many veterans to care for.

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. This union may never be perfect, but generation after generation has shown that it can always be perfected. And when innocents in Bosnia and Darfur are slaughtered, that is a stain on our collective conscience. It is agonizing for America to lose our young men and women. That is why I am committed to working with American Muslims to ensure that they can fulfill zakat. I know there is debate about this issue.

They claim that our insistence on something larger, something firmer and more honest in our public life is just a Trojan Horse for higher taxes and the abandonment of traditional values. Our daughters can contribute just as much to society as our sons, and our common prosperity will be advanced by allowing all humanity - men and women - to reach their full potential.

Her father worked on oil rigs and farms through most of the Depression. The pundits, the pundits like to slice-and-dice our country into Red States and Blue States; Red States for Republicans, Blue States for Democrats.

Thank you.