Obama Ipsum

In this election, we offer that choice. I'm hearing from progressives who understand that if we want to communicate our hopes and values to Americans, we can't abandon the field of religious discourse.

The document they produced was eventually signed but ultimately unfinished. We measure the strength of our economy not by the number of billionaires we have or the profits of the Fortune 500, but by whether someone with a good idea can take a risk and start a new business, or whether the waitress who lives on tips can take a day off to look after a sick kid without losing her job - an economy that honors the dignity of work. And now is the time to keep the promise of equal pay for an equal day's work, because I want my daughters to have exactly the same opportunities as your sons.

After the war, they studied on the G.I. What's remarkable is not how many failed in the face of discrimination, but rather how many men and women overcame the odds; how many were able to make a way out of no way for those like me who would come after them. This union may never be perfect, but generation after generation has shown that it can always be perfected. On science and technology, we will launch a new fund to support technological development in Muslim-majority countries, and to help transfer ideas to the marketplace so they can create jobs.

As William Faulkner once wrote, "The past isn't dead and buried. But what my former pastor too often failed to understand is that embarking on a program of self-help also requires a belief that society can change. We will, however, relentlessly confront violent extremists who pose a grave threat to our security.

Let me be clear. In my first book, Dreams From My Father, I described the experience of my first service at Trinity: But she didn't. Yet in this new age, such attitudes are self-defeating. For centuries, black people in America suffered the lash of the whip as slaves and the humiliation of segregation.

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