So much of America needs to be rebuilt. We’ve got crumbling roads and bridges, a power grid that wastes too much energy. Democratic and Republican administrations invested in great projects that benefited everybody.
Obama highlights the need for infrastructure investment.
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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.
There’s no doubt that we are going through a period right now of disruption, polarization.
I think when you understand the complexities of America and the contradictions of America, I don’t think it makes you love it less. I think it makes you love it more.
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.
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