As Isaac bears down on New Orleans and the Gulf coast, President Obama hits the campaign trail undeterred today for a two-day college tour meant to energize younger voters and steal some of the spotlight from the Republican Convention in Florida. Officials at Obama campaign......

I say to you today, my friends, that in spite of the difficulties and frustrations of the moment, I still have a dream. It is a dream deeply rooted in the American dream.
I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: "We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal."
I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit down together at a table of brotherhood.
I have a dream that one day even the state of Mississippi, a desert state, sweltering with the heat of injustice and oppression, will be transformed into an oasis of freedom and justice.
I have a dream that my four children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.
I have a dream today.
I have a dream that one day the state of Alabama, whose governor's lips are presently dripping with the words of interposition and nullification, will be transformed into a situation where little black boys and black girls will be able to join hands with little white boys and white girls and walk together as sisters and brothers.
I have a dream today.
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John Walker Lindh, dubbed the American Taliban at the start of the Afghan war, testified today in an Indianapolis courtroom that the government is forcing him to sin by not allowing daily group prayers in prison. Lindh is being housed in the Communications Management Unit in Terre Haute, Ind.
One-time GOP primary front-runner Herman Cain, who exited the race amid spiraling allegations of sexual infidelity, harbors no ill will from his failure to make it all the way to this week's Republican convention in Tampa, Fla., he said today.