Barack Obama: “Today I signed into law the Lord's Resistance Army Disarmament and Northern Uganda Recovery Act of 2009.”

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

Every president here today, as different as we are, has tried our best to uphold the values that John McCain and Mitt Romney believed in no less than I did.

Now the ball’s in your court, Iowa.

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.