His values - and his record - affirm what is best in us. That has been my experience at Trinity. Much has been made of the fact that an African-American with the name Barack Hussein Obama could be elected President. Iraq's sovereignty is its own. We have the power to make the world we seek, but only if we have the courage to make a new beginning, keeping in mind what has been written. The Talmud tells us: "The whole of the Torah is for the purpose of promoting peace." Her father worked on oil rigs and farms through most of the Depression. That we can tuck in our children at night and know that they are fed and clothed and safe from harm. The press has scoured every exit poll for the latest evidence of racial polarization, not just in terms of white and black, but black and brown as well. In the end, then, what is called for is nothing more, and nothing less, than what all the world's great religions demand - that we do unto others as we would have them do unto us. This union may never be perfect, but generation after generation has shown that it can always be perfected. In Ankara, I made clear that America is not - and never will be - at war with Islam.