Barack Obama: “I just wanted to express, on behalf of the American people, our deepest sympathies for the incredible and tragic loss…”

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.

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.

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They're meant to remind us of who we can be, to remind us of what's possible, so we can forge ahead.