Attaturk ♥ Obama

From the Washington Post comes the story of Barak Obama stumping for John Kerry.

"Everybody here knows somebody who's stubborn and wrong all the time. Why would you elect somebody like that president?" Obama called out. "I mean, it's one thing that somebody's wrong and they know they're wrong. Or it's one thing if they're arrogant but they're right all the time. But when they're arrogant and wrong all the time, that's a problem."

Connecting his argument to what he described as common American values, Obama criticized Attorney General John D. Ashcroft for "rounding up" terrorism suspects and denying them access to lawyers. He quoted Martin Luther King Jr. as saying the arc of the moral universe is long and bends toward justice.

"We don't just inherit the world from our parents, we borrow it from our children," Obama said. "So we have an obligation to give them clean air and clean water and a Constitution that's not poked full of holes. And a foreign policy that creates respect for Americans in the world, so that we don't have to feel when we carry an American passport that that automatically makes us a target."