IF obama wins nomination: How Obama is like George W. Bush

Bush positioned himself in 2000 as “a uniter, not a divider,” and Obama, while carefully avoiding using the word “uniter,” offers a similar message. Bush’s message of compassionate conservatism appealed to many Democrats and independent-minded liberals, Obama’s politics of hope seems to disarm Republicans and rightward-leaning independents.

Unfortunately for those republicans drawn to Obama’s message of unity, he almost certainly can’t deliver on it. Just as Bush failed to unite Washington and instead ended up contributing to its divisiveness, so Obama will eventually have to accept that conflict, rather than unity, is the natural condition of politics.

Like Bush in 2000, Obama is letting his non-threatening persona do the work and benefiting from a personality-based narrative that lets him get away with more in terms of policy.Think of it this way: do you think Mitch McConnell and John Boehner are going to want to work in good faith with him? Or are they going to try to undermine him at every turn?

We democrats better think before we again lose another election by selecting obama.

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The Clintons have been masters at conceding to the GOP.

Welfare Reform, triangulation, Telcom reform, "free trade," deregulation, no universal health care....

Any disagreements have been on the level of personal politics, which is the opposite of what they should have been fighting for.