Barack Obama: “Well, my job is to help make the rules for our country, and that I work with people like Senator Burris and the…”

It is a decision about how do we face and embrace this finite amount of time we have on the planet.

Because if this becomes the new normal, there’s no reason to believe it will stop with her — or that future presidents, in either party, won’t do the same.

I’m going to insist that we can do better than we’re doing right now.

A drift towards extremism was "not inevitable