Barack Obama: “Obviously this reopens the pain of what happened at Fort Hood five years ago.”

That was fantastic. I was a little tall for it.

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…

I thought this was the South Side of Chicago.

the American people want to find a way to turn towards each other again, not further away"