Gateway Pundit noted one particular paragraph in Barack Obama’s campaign speech in Berlin, Germany on July 24th. Here’s the quote from Obama’s speech:

Now the world will watch and remember what we do here - what we do with this moment. Will we extend our hand to the people in the forgotten corners of this world who yearn for lives marked by dignity and opportunity; by security and justice? Will we lift the child in Bangladesh from poverty, shelter the refugee in Chad, and banish the scourge of AIDS in our time?

(emphasis mine)

Wonderful words. Socially conscious words. However, they’re words. Obama offers only words. John McCain offers words, too, but he backs up those words with concrete action. He has already literally lifted a child in Bangladesh from poverty. I wrote about Bridget McCain a few weeks ago. Bridget McCain is the adopted daughter that the McCains lifted from poverty from Mother Teresa’s orphange in Bangladesh.

Meghan McCain kissing sister, Bridget McCain

Here’s the story from Gateway Pundit:

In 1991, John and Cindy McCain adopted a beautiful young girl from Bangladesh.
The Wall Street Journal reported:

(I)n 1991 Cindy McCain was visiting Mother Teresa’s orphanage in Bangladesh when a dying infant was thrust into her hands. The orphanage could not provide the medical care needed to save her life, so Mrs. McCain brought the child home to America with her. She was met at the airport by her husband, who asked what all this was about.

Mrs. McCain replied that the child desperately needed surgery and years of rehabilitation. “I hope she can stay with us,” she told her husband. Mr. McCain agreed. Today that child is their teenage daughter Bridget.

…(T)here was a second infant Mrs. McCain brought back. She ended up being adopted by a young McCain aide and his wife.

“We were called at midnight by Cindy,” Wes Gullett remembers, and “five days later we met our new daughter Nicki at the L.A. airport wearing the only clothing Cindy could find on the trip back, a 7-Up T-shirt she bought in the Bangkok airport.” Today, Nicki is a high school sophomore. Mr. Gullett told me, “I never saw a hospital bill” for her care.

And THERE is the choice this election year. On one hand we have Barack Obama, a gifted speaker who has absolutely no history or accomplishments to back up his rhetoric. He is untried. He is inexperienced. He has a proven history of questionable associates. He has a proven history of questionable judgment concerning foreign affairs. He is all about words.

On the other hand we have John McCain - a statesman with a long history of service, accomplishments and sacrifice for our country. He has proven himself repeatedly to be a man of character, a man of good judgment, and a man of thorough knowledge and experience in both domestic and foreign affairs.

I pray that when American voters are alone in the voting booth in November, the majority will see the clarity of choice - they’ll see beyond the pop prince of words and know that action is what is needed - not pretty words - and they will vote for John McCain.