Reply #53: and he's wrong

[Prophet 451]

I respect Obama's idealism. He wants to be a uniter, bring people together and all that good shit and I can't express how much I respect that very laudable aim BUT (you knew there'd be a "but"), this is a war, we need to start fighting back. Anyone who still considers themselves a Republican is not going to give him a nanometer, they're going to fight him every step of the way on absolutely everything. Grover Norquist (one of the leading lights of teh neocons) once described bipartisanship as "date rape". Obama sees himself as a referee, the Repubs see themselves as a back-alley knife fighter. Guess which one is going to the ER?

In a nobler time, against a Republican party that genuinely had the country's best interests at heart, Obama might have made a great president but this is not that time and no amount of "one America" speeches is going to make it so. The class war has been ongoing for thirty-odd years and you need Churchill, not Chamberlain.