Barack Obama: “In our military families, we see the best our country has to offer.”

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…

We don’t have any folks who grill here?

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.

I think when you understand the complexities of America and the contradictions of America, I don’t think it makes you love it less. I think it makes you love it more.