Barack Obama speaking yesterday at a rally in Richmond, Virginia.

Contrast this with the types of speeches the McCain/Pailin ticket have been stumping all across America -- the "pro-America" parts, anyway.

You decide.

With the challenges and crises we face right now, we cannot afford to divide this country by race or class or region; by who we are or what policies we support. There are no real or fake parts of this country. We are not separated by the pro-America and anti-America parts of this nation - we all love this country, no matter where we live or where we come from.

"The men and women from Virginia and all across this country who serve on our battlefields. Some are Democrats, some are Republicans, some are independents. But they fought together, and bled together, and some of them died together under the same flag. They didn't serve a blue America, or a red America, they served the United States of America. Nobody should forget that."

10-22-08