Barack Obama: “You wouldn’t always know it, but [oil production] went up every year I was president. Suddenly America’s like the…”

In forming our union, the founders fell terribly short of the Declaration's promise, leaving slavery intact, allowing states to restrict the franchise to white men who owned property.

They're meant to remind us of who we can be, to remind us of what's possible, so we can forge ahead.

I was a little tall for it.

The essence of Prop. 50 is to say that if you are going to play that game, then we are going to try to counteract that abuse of the system.