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Go into the collar counties around Chicago, and people will tell you they don't want their tax money wasted, by a welfare agency or by the Pentagon. When one nation pursues a nuclear weapon, the risk of nuclear attack rises for all nations.
Now even as we speak, there are those who are preparing to divide us, the spin masters, the negative ad peddlers who embrace the politics of anything goes. 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. The skeptical bent of my mind didn't suddenly vanish. So doing the Lord's work is a thread that's run through our politics since the very beginning. The President vetoed a similar plan, but he doesn't have the last word, and we're going to keep at it, until we bring this war to an end. We will open centers of scientific excellence in Africa, the Middle East and Southeast Asia, and appoint new Science Envoys to collaborate on programs that develop new sources of energy, create green jobs, digitize records, clean water, and grow new crops.
I thought of the 900 men and women - sons and daughters, husbands and wives, friends and neighbors, who won't be returning to their own hometowns. The situation in Afghanistan demonstrates America's goals, and our need to work together. The Palestinian Authority must develop its capacity to govern, with institutions that serve the needs of its people. troops and civilians.
They would give me an African name, Barack, or "blessed," believing that in a tolerant America your name is no barrier to success. 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. Part of it's because of the so-called leaders of the Christian Right, who've been all too eager to exploit what divides us. We can affirm our faith without endangering the separation of church and state, as long as we understand that when we're in the public square, we have to speak in universal terms that everyone can understand.
Our government should work for us, not against us. And that's what we have to restore.
Thank you.