Barack Obama: “I hope he backs it up, and I hope you do, too.”

helped lead some of the most significant movements for change in human history

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…

This idea that any suggestion or criticism that America was anything other than perfect is unpatriotic... is a suggestion that you hate your country.

I was a little tall for it.