White House Weekly Address: The State of American Politics, Feb. 13, 2016

Springfield, IL–(ENEWSPF)–February 13, 2016

Hi, everybody.  I’m speaking to you today from Springfield, Illinois.

I spent eight years in the state senate here.  It was a place where, for all our surface differences in a state as diverse as Illinois, my colleagues and I actually shared a lot in common.  We fought for our principles, and voted against each other, but because we assumed the best in one another, not the worst, we found room…