Barack Obama: “Together, we are helping to make New Orleans a place that stands for what we can do in America — not just for what we…”

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.

Your task is not to impose litmus tests.

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.

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