Obama Ipsum

I've been speaking to a lot of churches recently, so it's nice to be speaking to one that's so familiar. We believe that everyone, everywhere should be loved, and given the chance to work, and raise a family. It requires all Americans to realize that your dreams do not have to come at the expense of my dreams; that investing in the health, welfare, and education of black and brown and white children will ultimately help all of America prosper. And Ashley said that when she was nine years old, her mother got cancer. For human history has often been a record of nations and tribes subjugating one another to serve their own interests. The third source of tension is our shared interest in the rights and responsibilities of nations on nuclear weapons.

I am the son of a black man from Kenya and a white woman from Kansas. I've seen it in the workers who would rather cut their hours back a day than see their friends lose their jobs, in the soldiers who re-enlist after losing a limb, in the good neighbors who take a stranger in when a hurricane strikes and the floodwaters rise. I am also proud to carry with me the goodwill of the American people, and a greeting of peace from Muslim communities in my country: assalaamu alaykum. Much has been made of the fact that an African-American with the name Barack Hussein Obama could be elected President. Moreover, freedom in America is indivisible from the freedom to practice one's religion.

And when the Civil War was fought and our country dedicated itself to a new birth of freedom, they took on the problems of an industrializing nation - fighting the crimes against society and the sins against God that they felt were being committed in our factories and in our slums. What's remarkable is not how many failed in the face of discrimination, but rather how many men and women overcame the odds; how many were able to make a way out of no way for those like me who would come after them. That is true genius of this nation. They have fought in our wars, served in government, stood for civil rights, started businesses, taught at our Universities, excelled in our sports arenas, won Nobel Prizes, built our tallest building, and lit the Olympic Torch. That commitment is at the core of the Treaty, and it must be kept for all who fully abide by it.

For part of what has been lost these past eight years can't just be measured by lost wages or bigger trade deficits. Likewise, many Israelis recognize the need for a Palestinian state.

He contains within him the contradictions - the good and the bad - of the community that he has served diligently for so many years. You see, we Democrats have a very different measure of what constitutes progress in this country. Tomorrow, I will visit Buchenwald, which was part of a network of camps where Jews were enslaved, tortured, shot and gassed to death by the Third Reich.

Thank you, and God bless America.