Obama Ipsum

It came about as a choice, and not an epiphany. We can dismiss Reverend Wright as a crank or a demagogue, just as some have dismissed Geraldine Ferraro, in the aftermath of her recent statements, as harboring some deep-seated racial bias. That is one option.

I have brothers, sisters, nieces, nephews, uncles and cousins, of every race and every hue, scattered across three continents, and for as long as I live, I will never forget that in no other country on Earth is my story even possible. If you don't have a record to run on, then you paint your opponent as someone people should run from. We meet at a time of tension between the United States and Muslims around the world - tension rooted in historical forces that go beyond any current policy debate. They have affiliates in many countries and are trying to expand their reach. It is a sign of neither courage nor power to shoot rockets at sleeping children, or to blow up old women on a bus.

John Kerry knows this. 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. And because she had to miss days of work, she was let go and lost her health care. I love this country, and so do you, and so does John McCain.

It means continuing to insist on a full measure of justice in every aspect of American life. The profound mistake of Reverend Wright's sermons is not that he spoke about racism in our society. And as so many generations have come to realize over the course of the two-hundred and twenty one years since a band of patriots signed that document in Philadelphia, that is where the perfection begins.

John Edwards calls on us to hope. The hope of a young naval lieutenant bravely patrolling the Mekong Delta.

Thank you very much everybody.