Barack Obama: “I reaffirmed my commitment to a political solution in Afghanistan.”

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.

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.

Your task is not to impose litmus tests.

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