Barack Obama actually said...

This campaign has to be about reclaiming the meaning of citizenship, restoring our sense of common purpose, and realizing that few obstacles...

Our politics remains filled with division and discord. And everywhere we see the risk of falling into the refuge of tribe and clan. At such ...

In far too many cases, the punishment simply does not fit the crime.

There are a couple of things that, in my mind at least, contribute to our politics being more polarized than people actually are.