Barack Obama: “As president, my top priority is to grow our economy and strengthen the middle class.”

I was a little tall for it.

It fortifies you to say that, yes, this has been part of the journey that we’re on.

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.

The essence of Prop. 50 is to say that if you are going to play that game, then we are going to try to counteract that abuse of the system.