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We can recognize the truth that's at the heart of the UCC: that the conversation is not over; that our roles are not defined; that through ancient texts and modern voices, God is still speaking, challenging us to change not just our own lives, but the world around us. And Ashley said that when she was nine years old, her mother got cancer. Washington's been talking about our oil addiction for the last thirty years, and John McCain has been there for twenty-six of them. I'll invest in early childhood education. If you don't have a record to run on, then you paint your opponent as someone people should run from.
I don't know what kind of lives John McCain thinks that celebrities lead, but this has been mine. It's a promise that says each of us has the freedom to make of our own lives what we will, but that we also have the obligation to treat each other with dignity and respect. I'll make it easier for the American people to afford these new cars. We need a President who can face the threats of the future, not keep grasping at the ideas of the past. Denying that fact is baseless, ignorant, and hateful. The fourth issue that I will address is democracy.
But it also comes from my own American story. Legalized discrimination - where blacks were prevented, often through violence, from owning property, or loans were not granted to African-American business owners, or black homeowners could not access FHA mortgages, or blacks were excluded from unions, or the police force, or fire departments - meant that black families could not amass any meaningful wealth to bequeath to future generations. She did this for a year until her mom got better, and she told everyone at the roundtable that the reason she joined our campaign was so that she could help the millions of other children in the country who want and need to help their parents too. We are more compassionate than a government that lets veterans sleep on our streets and families slide into poverty; that sits on its hands while a major American city drowns before our eyes. This construction violates previous agreements and undermines efforts to achieve peace.
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. But the anger is real; it is powerful; and to simply wish it away, to condemn it without understanding its roots, only serves to widen the chasm of misunderstanding that exists between the races. We are a better country than this. Tell that to the military families who shoulder their burdens silently as they watch their loved ones leave for their third or fourth or fifth tour of duty. As a boy, I spent several years in Indonesia and heard the call of the azaan at the break of dawn and the fall of dusk. The Holy Koran tells us, "O mankind! We have created you male and a female; and we have made you into nations and tribes so that you may know one another."
We need to heed the biblical call to care for "the least of these" and lift the poor out of despair. More of you have cars you can't afford to drive, credit card bills you can't afford to pay, and tuition that's beyond your reach. That's not the judgment we need. That is in Israel's interest, Palestine's interest, America's interest, and the world's interest.
Thank you very much everybody.