🏛️ The Obama Presidential Center is officially open and the speeches delivered on opening day are ones for the history books. Every living former president was there. Jennifer Hudson, John Legend, Common, Tems, Stevie Wonder, Bruce Springsteen. The South Side of Chicago showing up and showing out for one of its own. But it was Michelle and Barack’s words that stopped everyone cold. Michelle reminded the audience — and her husband — of everything he endured with grace: the lies about his birthright, his faith, his patriotism. “Not once did you melt from the heat,” she said. “Not once did you let it harden you.” And then she turned to all of us: “Hope is a choice. Whether or not we use our voices to speak up is a choice. Voting is a choice. Being a decent human being is a choice.” Barack followed with a reminder that America’s founders envisioned “no kings or lords, no serfs or subjects” — and called for a nation that leads through democracy and cooperation, not one that tries to ...