Barack Obama: “As Americans, we're united by something else too: faith in the ideals that lie at the heart of our founding.”

At least one of our major parties has been captured by politics that is not that subtle about suggesting that ‘We the people’ means a certain kind of people.

Now the ball’s in your court, Iowa.

We’ve now fought a war, spent billions and billions of dollars, you know, put enormous strain on our military. A lot of people have died. And it feels like we’re back where we were before we started the war, except maybe a little bit worse…

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