Barack Obama: “You know I mean what I say and I say what I mean.”

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

And there’s no reason to suggest that we can’t get through this one either.

The success of this experiment was never a given.

Of course, we did not accomplish everything we set out to do. No administration does. Some of the exhibits reflect unfinished business, in some cases, my own shortcomings and mistakes, in some cases because - as a sign I kept on the…