Barack Obama: “We can go backwards, or we can go forwards.”

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.

In forming our union, the founders fell terribly short of the Declaration's promise, leaving slavery intact, allowing states to restrict the franchise to white men who owned property.

never talks that way when they are in the same room.

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