Barack Obama: “a president who is said to be very angry, angry that the general and his staff were involved in a wide ranging display…”

the American people want to find a way to turn towards each other again, not further away"

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.

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…

I thought this was the South Side of Chicago.