Obama Ipsum

God is still speaking. Even for those blacks who did make it, questions of race, and racism, continue to define their worldview in fundamental ways. Senator McCain likes to talk about judgment, but really, what does it say about your judgment when you think George Bush has been right more than ninety percent of the time? I don't know about you, but I'm not ready to take a ten percent chance on change. But I stand before you tonight because all across America something is stirring. The Arab-Israeli conflict should no longer be used to distract the people of Arab nations from other problems.

Again and again, we've seen him make tough choices when easier ones were available. We cannot walk alone. Six million Jews were killed - more than the entire Jewish population of Israel today. It's a story with a simple truth: that violence is a dead end. Likewise, it is important for Western countries to avoid impeding Muslim citizens from practicing religion as they see fit - for instance, by dictating what clothes a Muslim woman should wear.

Of course, the answer to the slavery question was already embedded within our Constitution - a Constitution that had at is very core the ideal of equal citizenship under the law; a Constitution that promised its people liberty, and justice, and a union that could be and should be perfected over time. And although she can no longer travel, I know that she's watching tonight, and that tonight is her night as well. I get it. For over a thousand years, Al-Azhar has stood as a beacon of Islamic learning, and for over a century, Cairo University has been a source of Egypt's advancement. As a boy, I spent several years in Indonesia and heard the call of the azaan at the break of dawn and the fall of dusk.

And I've found that no matter where I am, or who I'm talking to, there's a common theme that emerges. They are moral problems, rooted in both societal indifference and individual callousness - in the imperfections of man. Or, at this moment, in this election, we can come together and say, "Not this time." This time we want to talk about the crumbling schools that are stealing the future of black children and white children and Asian children and Hispanic children and Native American children. John McCain likes to say that he'll follow bin Laden to the Gates of Hell - but he won't even go to the cave where he lives. So I have known Islam on three continents before coming to the region where it was first revealed. And we will match promising Muslim students with internships in America; invest in on-line learning for teachers and children around the world; and create a new online network, so a teenager in Kansas can communicate instantly with a teenager in Cairo.

Now let there be no doubt. It's time for us to change America.

Thank you, and God bless America.