Barack Obama: “I also extend my congratulations to Zanzibar's President Ali Mohamed Shein.”

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

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

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.

At least one of our major parties has been captured by politics that is not that subtle about suggesting that ‘We the people’ means a certain kind of people.