Reckonings Republican death trip
Posted: August 16, 2009 at 4:09 a.m.
"I am in this race because I don't want to see us spend the next year re-fighting the Washington battles of the 1990s. I don't want to pit Blue America against Red America; I want to lead a United States of America." So declared Barack Obama in November 2007, making the case that Democrats should nominate him, rather than one of his rivals, because he could free the nation from the bitter partisanship of the past.
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Opinion, Pages 10 on 08/16/2009
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