Barack Obama: “Just know that we love you.”

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

Your task is not to impose litmus tests.

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…

And there’s no reason to suggest that we can’t get through this one either.