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He was a good-looking kid, six two, six three, clear eyed, with an easy smile. We need a President who can face the threats of the future, not keep grasping at the ideas of the past. For part of what has been lost these past eight years can't just be measured by lost wages or bigger trade deficits. Instead, they overlap, and share common principles - principles of justice and progress; tolerance and the dignity of all human beings. It will be hard to overcome decades of mistrust, but we will proceed with courage, rectitude and resolve. All of us share this world for but a brief moment in time.
In that time, I've had the chance to talk with Americans all across this country. I was too young to be involved in that movement, but I felt I could play a small part in the continuing battle for justice by helping rebuild some of Chicago's poorest neighborhoods. I learned that my sins could be redeemed. These are the Americans that I know. And when the first Muslim-American was recently elected to Congress, he took the oath to defend our Constitution using the same Holy Koran that one of our Founding Fathers - Thomas Jefferson - kept in his personal library. But this much is clear: governments that protect these rights are ultimately more stable, successful and secure.
But as Americans, we also know that this is a nation of laws, and we cannot have those laws broken when more than 2,000 people cross our borders illegally every day. Not with so much work to be done. At the same time, Israelis must acknowledge that just as Israel's right to exist cannot be denied, neither can Palestine's. Now, that must be our work here on Earth.
Because in an economy like this, the last thing we should do is raise taxes on the middle-class. You can't truly stand up for Georgia when you've strained our oldest alliances. We may not agree on abortion, but surely we can agree on reducing the number of unwanted pregnancies in this country.
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. Yet what we also understand is that our values should express themselves not just through our churches or synagogues, temples or mosques; they should express themselves through our government. Segregated schools were, and are, inferior schools; we still haven't fixed them, fifty years after Brown v. Anyway, Ashley finishes her story and then goes around the room and asks everyone else why they're supporting the campaign. On economic development, we will create a new corps of business volunteers to partner with counterparts in Muslim-majority countries.
Thank you, and God bless America.