Barack Obama: “This oil spill is an unprecedented disaster.”

Now the ball’s in your court, Iowa.

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.

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.

The essence of Prop. 50 is to say that if you are going to play that game, then we are going to try to counteract that abuse of the system.