Barack Obama: “Every family should have the opportunity to raise America's next generation of innovators, scholars, and leaders.”

I thought this was the South Side of Chicago.

The success of this experiment was never a given.

Every president here today, as different as we are, has tried our best to uphold the values that John McCain and Mitt Romney believed in no less than I did.

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…