George Pyle: ‘By the way, we have to fix that’

Declaring victory for the second time in a presidential election, Barack Obama in 2012 threw into his long speech an eight-word ad lib that has stuck with me ever since.Officially, the line was, “I want to thank every American who participated in this election, whether you voted for the very first time or waited in line for a very long time.”To which he impulsively, and correctly, added, “By the way, we have to fix that.”Those of us who remain a bit wistful at the size of