************I understand it was important, but it objectively it doesn't have enough substance to really discuss, and so the paragraph ends up with pointless sections like, Obama also called for national unity, rejecting the division of the United States by race or into red states and blue states: "We are one people, all of us pledging allegiance to the stars and stripes, all of us defending the United States of America." In the larger scheme of things, this is competely worthless - what politician doesn't talk about unity? George Bush himself ran on being a "uniter not a divider," but that certainly isn't what he'll be remembered for. Also, the overuse of quotes is a violation of WP: psts since Barack Obama is indeed his own primary source. This reliance is most blatantly obivious in the political advocacy section, but the personal life and cultural image sections show it a bit as well. In fact, both of those sections should be tagged as: