Barack Obama: “If we could just get past the divisions of race and religion and region; if we could come together, black, white…”

Your task is not to impose litmus tests.

there will be no kings

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.

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