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In South Carolina, where the Confederate Flag still flies, we built a powerful coalition of African Americans and white Americans. In all nations - including my own - this change can bring fear.

And this helps explain, perhaps, my relationship with Reverend Wright. He strengthened my faith, officiated my wedding, and baptized my children. At times, that anger is exploited by politicians, to gin up votes along racial lines, or to make up for a politician's own failings. It's because John McCain doesn't get it. I realize that I am not the likeliest candidate for this office. In the middle of the Cold War, the United States played a role in the overthrow of a democratically-elected Iranian government.

It's that folks are hungry for change - they're hungry for something new. He's still speaking to our Catholic friends - who are holding up a consistent ethic of life that goes beyond abortion - one that includes a respect for life and dignity whether it's in Iraq, in poor neighborhoods, in African villages or even on death row. We can tackle race only as spectacle - as we did in the OJ trial - or in the wake of tragedy, as we did in the aftermath of Katrina - or as fodder for the nightly news. To Chairman Dean and my great friend Dick Durbin; and to all my fellow citizens of this great nation; Moreover, the sweeping change brought by modernity and globalization led many Muslims to view the West as hostile to the traditions of Islam.

I would not be running for President if I didn't believe with all my heart that this is what the vast majority of Americans want for this country. It will require a renewed sense of responsibility from each of us to recover what John F. Given our interdependence, any world order that elevates one nation or group of people over another will inevitably fail. There is so much fear, so much mistrust.

We would be making the same mistake that Reverend Wright made in his offending sermons about America - to simplify and stereotype and amplify the negative to the point that it distorts reality. In that time, he's said no to higher fuel-efficiency standards for cars, no to investments in renewable energy, no to renewable fuels. That does not mean we should ignore sources of tension.

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