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Wednesday, April 17, 2013

Full Text of Obama's Healing Our City Speech

"As you begin this long journey of recovery, your city is with you. Your commonwealth is with you. Your country is with you. We will all be with you as you learn to stand and walk and, yes, run again. Of that I have no doubt. You will run again."

  The following is the full text of President Barack Obama's remarks at the interfaith service held at Cathedral of The Holy Cross in the South End of Boston on April 18, 2013, as provided by the White House's press office:   Hello, Boston!  Scripture tells us to "run with endurance the race that is set before us." Run with endurance the race that is set before us.   On Monday morning, the sun rose over Boston. The sunlight glistened off the Statehouse dome. In the Common and the Public Garden, spring was in bloom. On this Patriot’s Day, like so many before, fans jumped onto the T to see the Sox at Fenway. In Hopkinton, runners laced up their shoes and set out on a 26.2-mile test of dedication and grit and the human spirit. And across this…

MoonBeamWatcher

11:05 pm on Thursday, April 18, 2013

Would have been great if BO could multi-task and had sent a delegate to England to express Americas' sympathy and sadness at the loss of a true friend and champion of DEMOCRACY and FREEDOM!   more ›

Tuesday, December 18, 2012

Report: John Kerry to Be Secretary of State Nominee

The Massachusetts Senator would replace outgoing Secretary of State Hilary Clinton.

President Obama plans to nominate U.S. Senator John Kerry for Secretary of State, according to ABC News.  Kerry, if nominaed by Obama and confirmed by the Senate, would replace outgoing Secretary of State Hilary Clinton. Obama has reportedly made his decision but does not plan to announce it within the next few days, partly because of sensitivities surrounding the mass shooting at the Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn. Kerry became the front runner for the top diplomatic post in the wake of U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice withdrawing her name from consideration.   Kerry had reportedly been under consideration for the Secretary of Defense post, but former U.S. Senator Charles Hagel, R-Neb., tops the list of potential nominees for …

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