Obama Ipsum

I learned that my sins could be redeemed. Because that was the cheapest way to eat. And next week, we'll also hear about those occasions when he's broken with his party as evidence that he can deliver the change that we need. For eighteen long months, you have stood up, one by one, and said enough to the politics of the past.

I submitted myself to His will, and dedicated myself to discovering His truth and carrying out His works. Segregated schools were, and are, inferior schools; we still haven't fixed them, fifty years after Brown v. And Ashley asks him why he's there. And I consider it part of my responsibility as President of the United States to fight against negative stereotypes of Islam wherever they appear. We were founded upon the ideal that all are created equal, and we have shed blood and struggled for centuries to give meaning to those words - within our borders, and around the world.

Wright deliver a sermon called "The Audacity of Hope." And during the course of that sermon, he introduced me to someone named Jesus Christ. But race is an issue that I believe this nation cannot afford to ignore right now. Because in the faces of those young veterans who come back from Iraq and Afghanistan, I see my grandfather, who signed up after Pearl Harbor, marched in Patton's Army, and was rewarded by a grateful nation with the chance to go to college on the GI Bill. Indeed, it suggests the opposite: we must face these tensions squarely. Islam is not part of the problem in combating violent extremism - it is an important part of promoting peace.

I have a plan that would have already begun redeploying our troops with the goal of bringing all our combat brigades home by March 31st of next year. On the other end, we've heard my former pastor, Reverend Jeremiah Wright, use incendiary language to express views that have the potential not only to widen the racial divide, but views that denigrate both the greatness and the goodness of our nation; that rightly offend white and black alike.

We will all have to make concessions to achieve this. The fact is that the comments that have been made and the issues that have surfaced over the last few weeks reflect the complexities of race in this country that we've never really worked through - a part of our union that we have yet to perfect. Because that was the cheapest way to eat. But it is where we start. They have not served a Red America or a Blue America - they have served the United States of America. Palestinians must abandon violence.

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