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General Category => 3DHS => Topic started by: BT on July 29, 2010, 08:30:05 AM

Title: [Auto Post]Obama's Divisiveness is Hurting the Country
Post by: BT on July 29, 2010, 08:30:05 AM

Obama's Divisiveness is Hurting the Country
                                       

 Caddell & Schoen, WSJ
During the election campaign, Barack Obama sought to appeal to the best instincts of the electorate, to a post-partisan sentiment that he said would reinvigorate our democracy. He ran on a platform of reconciliation—of getting beyond "old labels" of right and left, red and blue states, and forging compromises based on shared values.President Obama's Inaugural was a hopeful day, with an estimated 1.8 million people on the National Mall celebrating the election of America's first African-American president. The level of enthusiasm, the anticipation and the promise...

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/2010/07/28/obama039s_divisiveness_is_hurting_the_country_238472.html