Barack Obama: “I am greatly concerned about the situation at the Embassy.”

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.

People aren't looking for perpetual anger and division. They are looking for fairness and common sense and mutual respect, that deep in our gut, we want to find a way to turn towards each other again, not further away.

I thought this was the South Side of Chicago.

The success of this experiment was never a given.