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A belief that there are better days ahead. There is real evil and hardship and pain and suffering in the world and we should be humble in our belief that we can eliminate them.
So doing the Lord's work is a thread that's run through our politics since the very beginning. I have a plan that would have already begun redeploying our troops with the goal of bringing all our combat brigades home by March 31st of next year. 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. And when innocents in Bosnia and Darfur are slaughtered, that is a stain on our collective conscience. That is why we will honor our agreement with Iraq's democratically-elected government to remove combat troops from Iraqi cities by July, and to remove all our troops from Iraq by 2012.
People don't expect government to solve all their problems. It wasn't until after college, when I went to Chicago to work as a community organizer for a group of Christian churches, that I confronted my own spiritual dilemma. They all have different stories and reasons.
He grew up herding goats, went to school in a tin-roof shack. But there's a story I want to share that takes place before Moses passed the mantle of leadership on to Joshua.
And slowly, I came to realize that something was missing as well - that without an anchor for my beliefs, without a commitment to a particular community of faith, at some level I would always remain apart, and alone. I can assure you it is not. This has bred more fear and mistrust. Because we reject the same thing that people of all faiths reject: the killing of innocent men, women, and children.
Thank you. And may God's peace be upon you.