Barack Obama: “Thank you again, Members of Congress, for the unbelievable work that you're doing for the American people each and every…”

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.

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.

The success of this experiment was never a given.

We don’t have any folks who grill here?