Obama Ipsum

Our Party has chosen a man to lead us who embodies the best this country has to offer. All of us share this world for but a brief moment in time.

You don't defeat a terrorist network that operates in eighty countries by occupying Iraq. Islam is not part of the problem in combating violent extremism - it is an important part of promoting peace. Suppressing ideas never succeeds in making them go away.

The people I meet - in small towns and big cities, in diners and office parks - they don't expect government to solve all their problems. We are one people, all of us pledging allegiance to the stars and stripes, all of us defending the United States of America. Unlike John McCain, I will stop giving tax breaks to corporations that ship jobs overseas, and I will start giving them to companies that create good jobs right here in America. I will eliminate capital gains taxes for the small businesses and the start-ups that will create the high-wage, high-tech jobs of tomorrow. So America will defend itself respectful of the sovereignty of nations and the rule of law. It is easier to blame others than to look inward; to see what is different about someone than to find the things we share.

And I found that I recognized in these folks a part of myself. Each of us in our own lives needs to do what we can to help the poor. Much has been made of the fact that an African-American with the name Barack Hussein Obama could be elected President. It was a peaceful and determined insistence upon the ideals at the center of America's founding.

But for all those who scratched and clawed their way to get a piece of the American Dream, there were many who didn't make it - those who were ultimately defeated, in one way or another, by discrimination. There is one story in particularly that I'd like to leave you with today - a story I told when I had the great honor of speaking on Dr.

Thank you.