Barack Obama actually said...

Serving our country is not just something that we should expect our members of our Armed Forces to do, that's something that we should expec...

It's going to require a victory of practicality and common sense and good policymaking over short-term politics.

I would like to take this opportunity to acknowledge and commend the National Endowment for Democracy's 2009 Democracy Award recipients.

I'm encouraged by is that after all the overheated rhetoric and the occasional demagoguery on all sides around this issue, we've got a respo...