Barack Obama: “I do hereby proclaim Memorial Day, May 28, 2012, as a day of prayer for permanent peace.”

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.

Now the ball’s in your court, Iowa.

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

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.