Obama Ipsum

So one Sunday, I put on one of the few clean jackets I had, and went over to Trinity United Church of Christ on 95th Street on the South Side of Chicago. They weren't simply a religious leader's effort to speak out against perceived injustice. And finally they come to this elderly black man who's been sitting there quietly the entire time. For over two decades, he's subscribed to that old, discredited Republican philosophy - give more and more to those with the most and hope that prosperity trickles down to everyone else.

And I heard Reverend Jeremiah A. It's not because John McCain doesn't care. Israel must also live up to its obligations to ensure that Palestinians can live, and work, and develop their society. This history is well known.

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. This country is more generous than one where a man in Indiana has to pack up the equipment he's worked on for twenty years and watch it shipped off to China, and then chokes up as he explains how he felt like a failure when he went home to tell his family the news. Now let there be no doubt.

People don't expect government to solve all their problems. I am grateful to finish this journey with one of the finest statesmen of our time, a man at ease with everyone from world leaders to the conductors on the Amtrak train he still takes home every night.

Louis, and thousands more like her, who has the grades, has the drive, has the will, but doesn't have the money to go to college. So let's rededicate ourselves to a new kind of politics - a politics of conscience. This time we want to reject the cynicism that tells us that these kids can't learn; that those kids who don't look like us are somebody else's problem.

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