The Politics of Anything Goes
By THOMAS B. EDSALL, NYT
Barack Obama first captured the national spotlight with a speech at the 2004 Democratic Convention in Boston in which he called for an end to the politics of division. The audience roared back its applause at the end of almost every line:
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Barack Obama first captured the national spotlight with a speech at the 2004 Democratic Convention in Boston in which he called for an end to the politics of division. The audience roared back its applause at the end of almost every line:
Now even as we speak, there are those who are preparing to divide us, the spin masters and negative ad peddlers who embrace the politics of anything goes. Well, I say to them tonight, there's not a liberal America and a conservative America; there's the United States of America. There's not a black America and white America and Latino America and Asian America; there's the United States of America.Americans, Obama declared, are
one people, all of us pledging allegiance to the stars and stripes, all of us defending the United States of America. In the end, that's what this election is about. Do we participate in a politics of cynicism, or do we participate in a politics of hope?Now, faced with a tough re-election fight, President Obama has, in fundamental respects, adopted the strategy he denounced eight years ago.
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Why do liberals insist on counting, classifying and dividing based on race? I suppose some lingering remorse over how the Democrats treated non-whites only a few decades ago would explain part of it. I do not see color differences between Obama and Romney supporters, instead it is exactly as Arthur Brooks put it, “Learned hopelessness versus earned success.” How many more decades of broken families will it take before liberals listen to Senator Moynihan?
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