Obama Ipsum

Now even as we speak, there are those who are preparing to divide us, the spin masters, the negative ad peddlers who embrace the politics of anything goes. And yet words on a parchment would not be enough to deliver slaves from bondage, or provide men and women of every color and creed their full rights and obligations as citizens of the United States. That together, our dreams can be one.

The people I meet - in small towns and big cities, in diners and office parks - they don't expect government to solve all their problems. It's not because John McCain doesn't care. Now is the time to end this addiction, and to understand that drilling is a stop-gap measure, not a long-term solution.

And that's to be expected. Denying that fact is baseless, ignorant, and hateful. I know there has been controversy about the promotion of democracy in recent years, and much of this controversy is connected to the war in Iraq. I saw it firsthand as a child in Indonesia, where devout Christians worshiped freely in an overwhelmingly Muslim country. And while America in the past has focused on oil and gas in this part of the world, we now seek a broader engagement.

While studying here, my father met my mother. 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. "We cannot walk alone," the preacher cried. So I have known Islam on three continents before coming to the region where it was first revealed.

And when the Civil War was fought and our country dedicated itself to a new birth of freedom, they took on the problems of an industrializing nation - fighting the crimes against society and the sins against God that they felt were being committed in our factories and in our slums. I have unequivocally prohibited the use of torture by the United States, and I have ordered the prison at Guantanamo Bay closed by early next year. There is no straight line to realize this promise.

Thank you.