Almost one year after the devastating tsunami struck the coast of Sri Lanka, real progress has been achieved: Ninety percent of children are back in school, epidemics have been prevented and transitional shelter has been provided to almost all internally displaced people.

I had made a terrible personal mistake which I didn't try to correct until almost a year later and I had to live with it, and it caused enormous amount of pain to my family, to my administration, to the country.

There is nothing factually inaccurate. But ... it was designed to be almost exclusively a hit on the federal response, without showing what anybody at any level was doing that was also miraculous, going on simultaneously in a positive way,

After eight years and almost exactly nine days to go, the last dog is still barking. Don't forget that even though I won't be president, I'll always be with you until the last dog dies.