Barack Obama: “I don't believe in 'can't.' I don't believe in giving up.”

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

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

The success of this experiment was never a given.

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.