"We warned the president -- don't ever, ever agree with the Republicans,"

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113. Nope. Not even at the top. Maybe with a once in a generation president,

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but look at today...the slide continues...and I cannot accept that myself. It is no long term solution. I am tired of the boom or bust cycle our politics have become for each few generations and it is like that because many of them, on both sides, don't work for the people. Too many in my opinion and it is why things are as they are. What you propose just seems to perpetuate that to me and it doesn't make sense.

Seems to me we are always stuck with the same situation the people in Egypt have. I don't care for that. I'll just say this, what you want is never going to happen. Even trying to focus only on positives is just impossible, there are too many negatives involved. Iraq comes to mind. Patriot Act, Domestic spying, torture, no justice, etc. How much else? Come on..and if you can't see that you are doomed to having once in a generation presidents that barely get enough vote to win. It does not make sense to me. What people need to do is look at why people are so polarized. That's where the problem is.

This polarization weakens us all and the other side exploits it. Pretty simple to me. These are gaps that just cannot be bridged to me. It will not happen right now. Period. To think it would right now is a failed strategy to me. You just saw the 2008 election, you tell me. We have a once in a generation President. I know that..and yet reality is still what it is. Meanwhile the folks that some people really work for are still there, and still get what they want instead of the people getting what they need.

Maybe this will help you understand better... I hope that it does. A strategy of alienating people to get votes just does not make sense to me and yet it is what the Democratic party does, time and again. What people need to ask themselves is, who would benefit from such a strategy. I think the answer to that is a fairly obvious one. I just don't know how much clearer things can be about that than they are now.

I think Obama would love to bring all of us together, and in many ways he has, but the system does not allow for any more than what we have now. All that you can do right now is try to educate people about this as a strategy. But again....you are really back where you started from. Why can't people see this? It is very clear. Obama is an extremely intelligent man, a man of the world in fact, and I am sure that he knows all this too, I hope that he does.

That money spent on Iraq should have been spent feeding Americans,building homes and bridges,educating people...Not in Iraq. And just how many Dems supported the invasion...its just unacceptable.