Barack Obama: “I applaud Senators John Kerry and Joe Lieberman for their tireless work in drafting this important legislation.”

In forming our union, the founders fell terribly short of the Declaration's promise, leaving slavery intact, allowing states to restrict the franchise to white men who owned property.

She knew she was going to mess me up, and she did it anyway."

The success of this experiment was never a given.

This idea that any suggestion or criticism that America was anything other than perfect is unpatriotic... is a suggestion that you hate your country.