Obama Ipsum

But Moses says: What I am commanding you is not too difficult for you or beyond your reach. Moreover, freedom in America is indivisible from the freedom to practice one's religion.

There was even a time when the Christian Coalition determined that its number one legislative priority was tax cuts for the rich. But it also comes from my own American story. Not just with words, but with deeds - by investing in our schools and our communities; by enforcing our civil rights laws and ensuring fairness in our criminal justice system; by providing this generation with ladders of opportunity that were unavailable for previous generations.

Today there are 12 million undocumented immigrants in America, most of them working in our communities, attending our churches, and contributing to our country. This is not to say that race has not been an issue in the campaign. And when the first Muslim-American was recently elected to Congress, he took the oath to defend our Constitution using the same Holy Koran that one of our Founding Fathers - Thomas Jefferson - kept in his personal library. The obligations that the parties have agreed to under the Road Map are clear. Palestinians must abandon violence.

John Kerry believes in energy independence, so we aren't held hostage to the profits of oil companies, or the sabotage of foreign oil fields. A nation of whiners? Tell that to the proud auto workers at a Michigan plant who, after they found out it was closing, kept showing up every day and working as hard as ever, because they knew there were people who counted on the brakes that they made. Moreover, freedom in America is indivisible from the freedom to practice one's religion. Too many tears have flowed.

That they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights. I'll make it easier for the American people to afford these new cars. That does not lessen my commitment, however, to governments that reflect the will of the people.

Thank you, God Bless you, and God Bless the United States of America.