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John Kerry understands the ideals of community, faith, and service because they've defined his life. If you have health care, my plan will lower your premiums.
There are patriots who opposed the war in Iraq and there are patriots who supported the war in Iraq. And we should close Guantanamo Bay and stop tolerating the torture of our enemies. And as someone who watched my mother argue with insurance companies while she lay in bed dying of cancer, I will make certain those companies stop discriminating against those who are sick and need care the most. Don't tell me that Democrats won't keep us safe. Yet in this new age, such attitudes are self-defeating.
And it's around this time that some pastors I was working with came up to me and asked if I was a member of a church. Consensus and compromise will not come easy. Because we all have the capacity to do justice and show mercy; to treat others with dignity and respect; and to rise above what divides us and come together to meet those challenges we can't meet alone. Given my background, my politics, and my professed values and ideals, there will no doubt be those for whom my statements of condemnation are not enough. King's birthday at his home church, Ebenezer Baptist, in Atlanta. We cannot walk alone.
It's the hope of slaves sitting around a fire singing freedom songs. America, we are better than these last eight years. That is why we are forging service projects in America that bring together Christians, Muslims, and Jews.
It's a war I'm proud I opposed from the start - a war that should never have been authorized and never been waged. For over two decades, he's subscribed to that old, discredited Republican philosophy - give more and more to those with the most and hope that prosperity trickles down to everyone else.
Thank you, and God bless America.