http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/politics/2015/06/obama_s_king_v_burwell_win_how_the_president_s_health_care_victory_affects.html

When President Obama heralded the Supreme Court victory for the Affordable Care Act on Thursday, he circled back to his fundamental vision of politics. “That’s when America soars, when we look out for one another, when we take care of each other,” he said. “That’s why we do what we do. That’s the whole point of public service.” President Obama has faced a series of existential threats to his health care law, from the original votes, to the elections of 2010, 2012, and 2014, to the two Supreme Court cases. Whenever he’s found himself in one of these moments, he’s returned to the wellspring of his public service, to the idea that Americans are at their finest when they’re protecting one another. Perhaps his most compelling expression of the idea came in the pitch he made five years ago on the eve of the ACA vote, in what remains the most emotional pitch the president has ever made for the legislation. He quoted Lincoln: “I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true.” In other words, it might be politically risky, but politicians had to be true to themselves, and to the people they’d pledged to serve.