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Not with an economy to fix and cities to rebuild and farms to save. And so in that spirit, let me speak as clearly and plainly as I can about some specific issues that I believe we must finally confront together. The situation in Afghanistan demonstrates America's goals, and our need to work together. We seek no military bases there.
Throughout the first year of this campaign, against all predictions to the contrary, we saw how hungry the American people were for this message of unity. Perhaps somebody told her along the way that the source of her mother's problems were blacks who were on welfare and too lazy to work, or Hispanics who were coming into the country illegally. Not with so many families to protect and so many lives to mend. As a young man, I worked in Chicago communities where many found dignity and peace in their Muslim faith. That is why I ordered the removal of our combat brigades by next August. The Palestinian Authority must develop its capacity to govern, with institutions that serve the needs of its people.
John Kerry believes in the Constitutional freedoms that have made our country the envy of the world, and he will never sacrifice our basic liberties, nor use faith as a wedge to divide us. But kneeling beneath that cross on the South Side, I felt I heard God's spirit beckoning me. Instead, it is that American spirit - that American promise - that pushes us forward even when the path is uncertain; that binds us together in spite of our differences; that makes us fix our eye not on what is seen, but what is unseen, that better place around the bend. It is time for these settlements to stop.
That's not what I'm talking about. Those are mutual interests.
Board of Education, and the inferior education they provided, then and now, helps explain the pervasive achievement gap between today's black and white students. That anger may not get expressed in public, in front of white co-workers or white friends. 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.
Thank you very much everybody.