Barack Obama: “That can't be who we are, to have kids--our kids, classmates of our children--who are suddenly under this shadow of fear…”

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.

The success of this experiment was never a given.

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.

Never talks that way when they are in the same room.