Barack Obama: “I expressed my personal thanks to the people of Australia through the Prime Minister for the enormous sacrifices that…”

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.

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…

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

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