Barack Obama: “I welcome a rising, peaceful China.”

At least one of our major parties has been captured by politics that is not that subtle about suggesting that ‘We the people’ means a certain kind of people.

a belief that our military and law enforcement owe allegiance not to any president or political party, but to the people and our constitution … a belief in the peaceful transfer of power

never talks that way when they are in the same room.

And there’s no reason to suggest that we can’t get through this one either.