Obama did inherit a deficit when he came into office. Why this fact justifies racking up vastly more debt and bigger deficits is a logical mystery.

I am just mystified by these people telling me I would think Obama was doing a great job if his skin contained less melanin.

And it's the President of the United States who said he wasn't going to spike the football and all this, we shouldn't gloat about it, running campaign ads, gloating about it and saying the other guy isn't good enough to do the tough things that I did, which I think is, one reprehensible.

But it is one of these sort of mythologies about America and its intellectual history, that the right embraced this thing called social Darwinism, when it never did so.

The GOP needs to figure out a way to become more appealing to new constituencies.

Folks, I don't want my president to leave office with a $10 trillion deficit. I don't want China to own more of our country through our debt.