Barack Obama: “This Administration recognizes that some oppressive governments seek to target their citizens for grave human rights…”

Listen, hypocrisy is progress.

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.

The success of this experiment was never a given.

This idea that any suggestion or criticism that America was anything other than perfect is unpatriotic... is a suggestion that you hate your country.