Barack Obama actually said...

Politics has never been for the thinskinned or the faint of heart.

People say to me, 'Mr. President, you helped revive the banking industry, you saved GM and Chrysler, what about the news business?'

Tonight's technology has made it possible for us to get our news and information from a growing range of sources.

It coarsens our culture, and at its worst, it can send signals to the most extreme elements of our society that perhaps violence is a justif...