Barack Obama: “Listen to your teachers, listen to your parents, and make sure that you really are doing everything you can to succeed…”

it was nevertheless important that we all play a part in assuring that our elected officials are accountable.

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.

America is currently experiencing anger and vision but we are looking for fairness and common sense and mutual respect.

We’ve now fought a war, spent billions and billions of dollars, you know, put enormous strain on our military. A lot of people have died. And it feels like we’re back where we were before we started the war, except maybe a little bit worse…