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To the Joshua generation, these challenges seem momentous - and they are. But we must also admit that programs alone can't replace parents; that government can't turn off the television and make a child do her homework; that fathers must take more responsibility for providing the love and guidance their children need. John McCain likes to say that he'll follow bin Laden to the Gates of Hell - but he won't even go to the cave where he lives. I get it. Yet in this new age, such attitudes are self-defeating. But I also know that human progress cannot be denied.
Religious leaders like my friends Rev. Jim Wallis and Rabbi David Saperstein and Nathan Diament are working for justice and fighting for change. Part of this conviction is rooted in my own experience.
He said that our economy has made "great progress" under this President. She's the one who taught me about hard work.
If there's a senior citizen somewhere who can't pay for their prescription drugs, and has to choose between medicine and the rent, that makes my life poorer, even if it's not my grandparent. E pluribus unum. And so they need an assurance that somebody out there cares about them, is listening to them - that they are not just destined to travel down that long road toward nothingness. This is a problem that's brought together churches and synagogues and mosques and people of all faiths as part of a grassroots movement. That is why I strongly reaffirmed America's commitment to seek a world in which no nations hold nuclear weapons. We know that is God's vision.
It will require a renewed sense of responsibility from each of us to recover what John F. When John McCain said we could just "muddle through" in Afghanistan, I argued for more resources and more troops to finish the fight against the terrorists who actually attacked us on 9/11, and made clear that we must take out Osama bin Laden and his lieutenants if we have them in our sights.
God bless you.