Barack Obama: “We mortgage that future if we don't get a handle on our deficit and debt.”

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

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

The success of this experiment was never a given.

People aren't looking for perpetual anger and division. They are looking for fairness and common sense and mutual respect, that deep in our gut, we want to find a way to turn towards each other again, not further away.