Barack Obama: “This year's theme, 'Join the Voices for Recovery: Speak Up, Reach Out,' urges those who need help to ask for it.”

there will be no kings

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.

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…

No one was more skilled at bringing people together and getting legislation passed.