David Axelrod: “He's an opportunist and he's exploiting race, because he thinks it's to his political advantage to do that.”

I mean, he's president of the United States. He was elected. They should be there.

So the man remained, passed out in the blazing noon sun. I guess that’s how the City of Chicago deals with such situations.

I think there's a lot of concern among Republican officeholders. Governor Pawlenty could speak more readily to this than me.

The nature of presidential politics is the bar gets raised constantly.