Reply #12: Let me give you an example, then

[jpgray]

Obama lays claim to the platitude of bipartisanship. His platform contains some progressive planks that the GOP will vehemently oppose. So, is there a bipartisan (compromise) solution to these disagreements? Take Habeaus Corpus, where an essentially party-line vote had the Democrats in favor of its restoration and the GOP wanting to keep it buried. How do you restore Habeas Corpus in that case when there is -no- bipartisan agreement that it should be done? The only way to accomplish it would be a partisan fight. I refuse to believe Obama would compromise his values willy-nilly based on GOP opposition. So since claiming to espouse "bipartisanship" -and- progressive policy is contradictory, this leads me to believe the former is mostly a platitude, used for marketing himself as agreeable to both sides of the debate. Or do you disagree?