Barack Obama: “Each of these proposals deserves a vote.”

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…

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.

That was fantastic. I was a little tall for it.

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