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They've worked hard all their lives, many times only to see their jobs shipped overseas or their pension dumped after a lifetime of labor. I don't know what kind of lives John McCain thinks that celebrities lead, but this has been mine. If your hopes have been dashed again and again, then it's best to stop hoping, and settle for what you already know. The first issue that we have to confront is violent extremism in all of its forms.
And they are a part of America, this country that I love. Let us be our brother's keeper, Scripture tells us. It should help us, not hurt us. And today, as my call for a time frame to remove our troops from Iraq has been echoed by the Iraqi government and even the Bush Administration, even after we learned that Iraq has a $79 billion surplus while we're wallowing in deficits, John McCain stands alone in his stubborn refusal to end a misguided war. Rather than remain trapped in the past, I have made it clear to Iran's leaders and people that my country is prepared to move forward.
We can accept a politics that breeds division, and conflict, and cynicism. This time we want to talk about the men and women of every color and creed who serve together, and fight together, and bleed together under the same proud flag.
I will cut taxes - cut taxes - for 95% of all working families. That is why there is a mosque in every state of our union, and over 1,200 mosques within our borders. It's a story with a simple truth: that violence is a dead end.
The day after Pearl Harbor my grandfather signed up for duty; joined Patton's army, marched across Europe. Bill, bought a house through F.H.A., and later moved west all the way to Hawaii in search of opportunity. And so this will be a difficult debate next week. This is not to say that race has not been an issue in the campaign. Their experience is the immigrant experience - as far as they're concerned, no one's handed them anything, they've built it from scratch. The times are too serious, the stakes are too high for this same partisan playbook.
Thank you very much everybody.