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Because next week, in Minnesota, the same party that brought you two terms of George Bush and Dick Cheney will ask this country for a third. Those are mutual interests.
More work to do for the workers I met in Galesburg, Ill., who are losing their union jobs at the Maytag plant that's moving to Mexico, and now are having to compete with their own children for jobs that pay seven bucks an hour. And in time, I came to see faith as more than just a comfort to the weary or a hedge against death, but rather as an active, palpable agent in the world and in my own life. Why else would he define middle-class as someone making under five million dollars a year? How else could he propose hundreds of billions in tax breaks for big corporations and oil companies but not one penny of tax relief to more than one hundred million Americans? How else could he offer a health care plan that would actually tax people's benefits, or an education plan that would do nothing to help families pay for college, or a plan that would privatize Social Security and gamble your retirement?
We can play Reverend Wright's sermons on every channel, every day and talk about them from now until the election, and make the only question in this campaign whether or not the American people think that I somehow believe or sympathize with his most offensive words. At this moment, in this election, we must pledge once more to march into the future.
To President Clinton, who last night made the case for change as only he can make it; to Ted Kennedy, who embodies the spirit of service; and to the next Vice President of the United States, Joe Biden, I thank you. You have shown what history teaches us - that at defining moments like this one, the change we need doesn't come from Washington.
That's why organizations are rising up across the country to reclaim the language of faith to bring about change. It's a story that hasn't made me the most conventional candidate. That is why I ordered the removal of our combat brigades by next August.
Thank you, God Bless you, and God Bless the United States of America.