Barack Obama: “His own story taught him that as Americans, we are bound together as one people.”

The success of this experiment was never a given.

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…

never talks that way when they are in the same room.

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