Well, plenty o' people here that are just plain not reading Jefferson correctly at all... and there are some like phil, of newark who don't even think facts are important or that many people here will Google his ignorant claim. Here is what Obama said Mr. Deceptive: "It's the answer spoken by young and old, rich and poor, Democrat and Republican, black, white, Hispanic, Asian, Native American, gay, straight, disabled and not disabled. Americans who sent a message to the world that we have never been just a collection of individuals or a collection of red states and blue states. We are, and always will be, the United States of America." That is EXACTLY what he said. As a veteran with a brain - I ask - what problem with that, have you? Tell ya what jack - when I served in the Navy - I served with people from all over and from virtually every conceivable background. I served on a carrier for 3 years as regular ships' complement on automatic boiler control systems. It was hard work that required significant intelligence and many, many hours. So - when I see what a lot of ill informed people on here post - I just know the vast majority have never ever served or if they did - never thought deeply as to what they were doing. Then we have these twerps on here posting about relatively isolated incidents where facts from both sides are unprovable at the moment and they want to condemn the whole of American government and society. What a bunch of hoops. Don't forget that this is still an evolving nation - it is and always will be prone to boneheaded mistakes at various points within the assorted systems. We are to strive for a more perfect union. Make no mistake - most of you have absolutely missed Jefferson's great concerns in this passage - completely. If you knew the relationship of his recipient to himself, and if you knew he was in Paris - at once enthusiastic to receive a copy of the tentative Constitution and yet also gravely concerned about one aspect of it - which gave lead to this paragraph - you'd might be embarrassed for yourself. Lordy no - don't ask people to actually find out stuff for themselves from the actual sources themselves. Just about anyone on here - you don't even need to go to a library.